dear little house on loomis avenue,
i am not quite ready to say goodbye to you yet, but the promise of a lower interest rate lured us to sell you a few years before we had planned. we loved our two years inside your 100+ year old brick walls. i fell in love with your beautiful old wood floors the moment we walked in your door. rob had a harder time looking past the cat hair and all the rocking chairs, but i knew you had potential. your kitchen was perfect for us... functional, but not so nice that we couldn't have a little fun with the budget makeover. your walls have heard a lot of laughter and a few tears in the past few years. your walls have collected some memories during our stay... lots of swearing while playing settlers of catan, a few shrimp boils, my first garden, rob slicing his hand open, a new puppy peeing on your floor, and most recently lucca and i waited out a tornado warning in the empty basement. we have crammed quite a few friends in your little living room. your location was perfect for bike-in movies at new belgium, running on the bike trail and tubing the poudre. there have been a few things that we haven't enjoyed though... the leaky kitchen roof, the lack of privacy in the the bathroom and the ONE closet. i would like to remember you as full of life and rather than empty and echoing like we left you today. we are glad to have been a small part of your history.
love, hannah & rob
3 comments:
:( I've wondered how I'll feel leaving my first house! You've put so much of yourselves into it! I've decided to hold off putting any more into mine, since I don't think we'll live here, because I think the pain would be too great!
On to greater make-overs?! On that note, I need your new address!
this almost made me cry--what a lovely goodbye hannah!
awww... you guys made the little loomis house so beautiful. can't wait to see what you'll do with your next project. still... sad to see little loomis go... :(
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