Snow on May 31st?

Ok, so not really snow, but it sure looked like it! At about 5:30PM the sirens started blaring in MG. At that time it was bright and sunny. By 6:15, outside painted a whole different picture.

We went to our basement laundry room right after this picture was taken, as I was afraid that the hail was going to break some windows. In about 15 minutes the hail was done, and the sun returned. The hail remained on the street and roofs and looked like we had just had a snow storm. I know there were some traffic accidents from low road visibility. We are just lucky that there was not a tornado as we were in a warning due to some funnel clouds that were spotted.

Here are some more pictures:

The roofs on the houses in the picture are normally black. The hail was that thick 15 minutes after the storm had gone through. And finally here is a picture of Brian enjoying the view!

Houses

So, we've been quite busy these past few weeks. I have been putting in about 10 hours of overtime a week to pay for closing costs and escrow funds, and we also started playing sand volleyball Monday nights and Wednesday nights. Besides our normal routines, we have also been house hunting 3 times now. There are quite a few houses in our price range but they really range in quality depending on where we are looking. MG has older houses that need a lot of updating. The further we move out, the nicer the houses get in our price range.

MG house that we are interested in: It is a 4-level split with 3 bedrooms upstairs and 1 bedroom downstairs. It would need new flooring in dining room (pictured) and lots of new light fixtures which we could get with time.
Then there is a house in a suburb that if further out: 2 bedrooms upstairs, 1 bedroom downstairs, 3 bathrooms including a huge master suite.

There are some of the pictures. I am still organizing some of the others. Hopefully we will post some more soon. Does anyone have an opinion regarding 3 bedrooms upstairs versus 2 bedrooms upstairs in terms of being on the same floor as the kids?