House Hunting

Since our lease at our apartment is up in only 1 and a half months our lives have been consumed with rental house hunting. It's been pretty fun searching for a new place, and we're getting excited about moving closer to where we spend most of our lives currently anyways.
I'm ready for a change too. And I'm ready to only have a 10 min drive to church and Bible studies as oppose to our current 45 min drive that we make 3-4 times a week. I'm ready to be able to spend more time at home instead of constantly driving back and forth. I'm ready to be able to cook dinner more than twice a week since we'll actually be able to stop at home after work to eat before our weekly night events.
So far we have found a few 3 bedroom houses for rent that fit our budget and have almost perfect locations and landlords.
It's so nice this time around not having to worry so much about compromising on things. If the location is nice but not perfect, if the layout isn't quite what we want for long term, if the kitchen cabinets are too low, if the backyard isn't big enough, that's okay because we're not buying it so we're not stuck with it either. Those things are far more okay with me knowing that I don't have to fully commit to it forever.
We have one house that we love that will be available on Dec 20th (which would be perfect) but we can't turn in our application until Dec 3rd so we are waiting and continuing the search until we find out what happens with this one.
Our ideal situation would be to move the last week of the year and to be all settled before new years. :) Hopefully this works out. We've been praying hard that God will lead us to the home He wants us to live in and we trust that He will.
So we are house hunting. And it's kind of fun. This is our life as of late.