On the hunt

I'm getting so excited, tomorrow is our first day of real house hunting! I've mentioned before how excited we are to buy our first home and now we have the opportunity. We have our pre-approval and just recently got a letter from them in the mail stating our credit scores. Out of 3 companies, mine are well over 750, one over 800. I know that's really good, and DH's are a little lower, but not by much, still between 700-750. We should be able to get a really good interest rate with those. We have about 7 houses to look at tomorrow in our target area, which is near an expressway (which DH will need for work), near Battle Creek (also needed for work) but close enough to Lansing that I won't be far from my birth center. We also have 4 more house more west and south of the area, but that is getting a little far away, so we'll look at those next weekend, if none of these work out. I don't think 7 is too bad, it gives us a lot of options. We have been looking for weeks and have narrowed down tremendously from our original search. I'm going crazy today, trying to map the route we'll need to take to make it most time-efficient, so we don't run too late, and so we're not retracking ourselves go between houses. I'm now going to look more into the areas they are in, which luckily, several of them are in more rural areas, which is what we like. I want to write down a few things we'll need to look at with each house, pros and cons we can already see, and then make a list of items we need to check at each house, such as is there a fenced in yard? How big is the living room, is there plenty of cupboard and closet space? I'll take pictures of each place fully while we're there, so we have something to look over when making our decision. Goodness, I think that's a little too organized, but it can't hurt, can it? I also have to look at school districts, yikes!
Ok, so enough of the house rambling. I'm just excited to take this next step, one step closer to buying. We'll also be Abigail-free tomorrow, since my dad has offered to watch her for us. I know she'll miss one out of the two days a week she'll get with daddy, but it will be far more difficult if we have her with us. In and out of the car so many times, we have to make time for diaper changes, meals, etc.