Hello Again

I know that I haven't posted in a while, but there have been a lot of things going on. Here is the rundown of what's been happening since our last posting.

• Taking off a day to take care of a sick little boy.
• Taking care of our loan documents to make sure that everything is going smoothly.
• Completing taxes for 2011.
• Touring daycare centers to determine the best fit.
• Trip to Atlanta to visit my dad (March 15-20).
• Planning Sam's 3rd birthday party.
• Packing for our move.

It looks like everything is going smoothly with everything, except packing.

• Sam is much better and back at daycare. Check!
• Our loan looks good. It looks like we will be able to put more of a down payment on our house that we originally thought. Check!
• Brian is working on taxes tonight. Check!
• We found Sam a great daycare (surprisingly Christian based). Check!
• Our Atlanta trip was great. Thanks for everything Dad. Pictures will be posted soon or you can just check out my Facebook page for some of them. Check!
• I went to Michael's during my lunch hour today to get things for Sam's party next weekend. Check!
• Packing for our move . . . well, we're not as far as we should be.

We are hoping that Brian's parents can come over on Sunday to entertain him while we get to work with a monster packing project. Brian gets the basement and the computer desk. I get the pantry, linen closet and the bathrooms. We both get to tackle the garage.


I think that's fair.

Fresh Start

We have the chance to start anew.

We are going to use the purchase of our new home as a catalyst for new processes within our home to stay organized. It may take a little while to get the processes in gear, but better now that 2 years later when the house is a mess and we don't know where to start.

Moving Fast- Part 2

The sellers of the first house that we put an offer accepted another person's offer. Yuck!!

That house is dead to me.

The good news is, there is another house that we looked at on Sunday that I liked a little bit better. Brian drove up there tonight to take another look in the evening, and he just gave the okay for us to put in an offer.

Here are photos of this house.

Moving Fast

With our house going on the market and coming off the market with an offer with the first showing, we really needed to move fast if we were going to be able to find a house and hopefully move in before our current house closes.

We think we found the house. Our agent is going to write our offer this morning. We just love it (wood floors, sunny, open, HOA, awesome kitchen). And the list goes on and an.

Here are some photos.

It's Official. Our House is OFF the Market!

Within 36 hours of putting our house on the market, we received an initial offer, sent a counter offer and it was accepted.

Our house is under contract.

That means that we don't have to keep our house sparkling anymore (but it does look good!).
That also means that we need to get out there and look at some houses. The buyer of our house wants to close on April 13th. That only leaves us 6 weeks. EEK!!

We are headed out tomorrow. Wish us luck!

It's Official. Our House is on the Market!

Our listing went up this morning and we already have someone wanting to see the house this afternoon. Yea!!

Signs For Our House

With our house going on the market tomorrow, we need to let people know about a few things.

We recently had our carpets cleaned, so I made this sign to let people know. I will put it on our front door. I really hope that they pay attention.

Also, since we haven't moved everything out of our garage and basement (but we have it organized and will have everything out this weekend), I made some signs to let people know.

Let me know what you think.

More Out the Door (348-546)

During our pack and move to the storage facility, we were able to go through a lot of our cabinets and basement and found a bunch of things that needed to be freed from our posession.

To ARC**
6 Vases
1 Sweater
1 Mailbox toy
1 Train Toy

An 18 Gallon tub which included the following

• 27 T-Shirts
• 2 Pairs of Sweat Pants
• 1 Pair of Shoes (that I don't even remember buying- nice huh??)
• 1 Robe

40 Items

Brian is taking Friday off work and taking some stuff to the dump and to a recycling facility. These are items that should have been disposed of months, if not years, ago.

• 1 Old Garage Door Opener
• 1 Desktop Computer (without a hard Drive)
• 1 Broken Microwave
• 1 Tree (broken down into countless branches)- Should I count each branch?? How about 50??
• 2 Very, Very, Very Old Ottomans (that Brian was going to repurpose the wood, but we don't want to move again)
• 2 Dead Bushes (they never grew, but have been in our backyard from 3 years)
• A Truckload Full of Junk (branches from fallen trees, firewood, and other yard waste)- I'm counting that as 100

158 Items

198 Items Total

**These are the items that I remember. There are probably at least another 50 things that I don't remember. If I come to the end of the year and are within 50 of removing 2,012 items from the house, I'll count them.

Before & During

There is still some work to be done, but the bulk of it has been completed. Here are some before pictures.

Doesn't this look like a well lived in house? Now look at it.

The major areas have been cleaned, purged and organized. We even had our realtor over to take photos for the listing. We are still on track to have our house on the market by March 1st.

Outside of our Home

Here is the outside of our home. We are selling. Does anyone want to live in SE Aurora??