6 years ago today

It was a day much like today. Cool, windy and a little rain.
Connor was 4 months old and Elissa was 2 and a half.
We moved into our house. This house. This house that we love.

I remember coming up to Auguston in the spring of 1998 with Joel. All that was here were the 4 show homes and presentation centre. We toured the homes and thought how wonderful it would be to live here one day. We were just engaged and had plans of moving across the country, so the thought of actually living here was nothing more than a far off dream.

As the years went by we lived in many different places. Neither of us ever thought we would end up back in our home town of Abbotsford, but we did. Just after Connor was born we listed our townhouse for sale and began planning the house we were to build... in Auguston. As we poured over house plans and looked into he cost of upgrades, we began feeling overwhelmed and thought that perhaps we weren't going to be able to pull this off. We actually put an offer on a house here that quickly fell through. As were driving that night we saw a realtor putting up a sign for a house on the park. Immediately we knew that this would be a perfect location and made an appointment to go through the house that night.

The house was less than a year old and right from the entrance we fell in love with it. It was perfect. We moved in a month and a half later and here we are today. I feel so blessed to be where we are.

Here are the kids when we first moved in.