The Fishers Run house (aka the Michigan house)

In 2006, 6 weeks after I had our first son, Jackson, my husband accepted a promotion and we moved from Austin, Texas to Traverse City, Michigan.  In October. Neither one of us had even visited the place we were about to move to.  I remember the morning we pulled into Traverse City.  It was the first week in October and it was 32 degrees outside at 7 in the morning.  Four days later, it snowed.  Talk about culture shock!  With the baby being born and other things going on, we didn't get a chance to take a house-hunting trip up there before we moved, so we rented a furnished condo while we looked for a house.  and looked.  and looked.  and looked.  I think we ended up looking at close to 50 houses.  It was crazy.  The house we ended up buying wasn't even one that our realtor had in mind to show us, but was on the same street as one that she took us to.  We drove by and I wanted to look at it because it was brand new and I thought "Why not?"  It was leaps and bounds better than anything we had seen, but that might have been because it was priced a little higher than anything we had seen.  Oh well, we both really liked it and could see ourselves living there.  With a brand new baby, neither one of us were looking for a fixer upper.  This one was move in ready....but....

Somehow, we still managed to find a way to have construction crews in our house!!  The basement was unfinished, so we negotiated with the builder to finish it out with a 5th bedroom and bathroom and family room. 

We only lived in the house 6 months before we put it up for sale because my husband had decided that he wanted to do something different with his career- like start his own business.  The house was for sale for a year and half before it sold.  It was a HUGE growing period and a HUGE test of our faith in God.  We learned so much during that time in Michigan.  I look back on it now, and am thankful for that time in our lives.  We learned many valuable lessons and learned to lean more deeply on our faith in the Lord.  I loved our time in that house and will always have sweet memories of that house because that is where Jackson spent the first two years of his life growing up.  We would love to make it a tradition to visit Traverse City at least once a year.  Enjoy some pictures of our time in Traverse city.


The Fishers Run House--Half of our backyard was full of wild blackberry bushes!  Every morning we would wake up and see a group of deer or a gaggle(?) of turkey in the backyard.  The house backed up to a federal forest preserve!

                                  Jackson and Papa walking the pier on Grand Traverse Bay

Leelanau peninsula...home to one of my favorite wineries in Northern Michigan!

Picking cherries--Traverse City is the Cherry Capital of the world!

Feeding the ducks downtown at the Farmers Market (which is the best one I've ever been to)

Look at the long sleeves and pants!  It was JUNE!  We were visiting an Iris Farm.

Picking strawberries.

Old Mission Peninsula Lighthouse.  Jackson's second Christmas.

My favorite thing about the Fishers Run house:  the Hickory wood floors!