Our offer was accepted!

Unless we run into unforeseen problems, this is going to be our new house!

I will admit that I do not love the 80's look of the outside--too many vertical lines for me, but this house meets our needs in every way and we feel very blessed to have found it.

You can't see it, but there is a mailbox at the end of the driveway.  I've never lived in a place with a mailbox, and now I can check it off my bucket list. :o)

Dad and Melece:  Will mums grow in the desert?  I would love to plant mums in that spot next to the circle drive.  The house faces North.  Is there any shade loving plant that would grow if we put planter boxes under the windows to break up the vertical lines?

The inside has been completely re-done, and I absolutely love the off-set kitchen cabinets. The house has four-ish bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, an office, and a room in the garage for quilting.  I say four-ish bedrooms because one of the basement rooms is actually two rooms (in an L-shape) but one of those "rooms" has a closet but no window, and the other "room" has the window but no closet so you can't really call it a 5th room.  It's a little strange but I can work with it.

 The yard has automatic sprinklers :o) and just enough grass to feel like a yard, without too much to water in the desert heat.  We will do square foot gardening in the built in planter boxes all across the back. If you look closely at the back of the picture, you can see landscaping bricks beyond "the courtyard"--it is a sandbox.
The driveway extends to the back of the property, where a foundation is ready for Todd's future wood shop.

 This is the room in the garage that will be my quilting studio.  It is barely long enough to hold my machine, so we will be knocking the wall out and extending the room so that it's the entire width of the garage.
BTW, Have you ever seen a cleaner garage in all your life?  I think you could eat off the floor...

Oh, and one more thing.  This house is in my Great Uncle Mark and Aunt Joan's stake.  Their daughter (my 2nd cousin) is currently in the ward we'll be moving into, so we'll have family there!  Also, we'll be a mere 5 1/2 hours away from my brother and we are excited to be able to visit his family and their ocean :o)