Timeline

January 4

I emailed our real estate agents Joe and Linda Stewart and asked if it would be a good time to look at buying a new house.  They said yes so we put our house up for sale and started looking.  We looked at several, saw a few we liked, put an offer on one that ended up not working out.  After being on the market for 2 or 3 days someone made an offer on our house, then they ended up backing out.  We got pretty discouraged and decided we would just keep our house and rent it out and buy another.

January 29

I sent our realtors 4 possible houses, one being the house on Marsh Tern.

January 30

We went and looked at the house on Marsh Tern and LOVED IT.  We went back to the realtor's office and put in our offer.  They accepted our offer.

February 5

We had the inspection and appraisal completed at the new house.

February 8

The house appraised for $28,000 less than what the seller was asking.  We asked the seller to lower the price but did not expect it.

- They accepted the lower offer!!!

February 16

We had carpet guys come measure the new house so we could get a quote to replace the carpet.

February 18

We had painters come quote us on repainting the living area and kitchen cabinets.

February 19

We signed papers for our new house!

It took 20 days to get into our house from the time we saw it until we signed - WOW!

February 20

The painters started taping and preparing the house to paint.  My friends and I painted the girls rooms pinkle (purple/pink).

February 21

The painters painted.

February 22

The carpet guys started, the painters finished painting.

February 23

The carpet guys continued carpeting, the movers moved all of our stuff.  This is also the FIRST night we actually stayed in the house.

February 24

The carpet guys finished (the stairs were last).

March 6

I unpacked, cleaned, and organized my closet - the last thing left.  We are now completely moved in, mostly. We have to get someone to come get our fridge that we had moved from our house on Sparta  and take it back to that house because it is too deep - we have to have a counter depth fridge.  We ordered a new fridge and it should be here next week.

We are also in the process of submitting an agricultar thing to our home owners association to get solar panels put on the house so the pool will be nice and warm.


There are a million other little things we are still working on, like renting out our Sparta property (we just got renters today yay) and painting the fence around the pool, but we keep reminding ourselves that we have forever, or at least there is no reason to rush.

So far we love the house, we are settling into a nice routine.  I think we are all happy with our upgrade!

About to paint - see the old carpet color, very dark brown.

My friends and Summer painting Pepper's room "pinkle"

The Pool

Summer's Room - Pinkle

The before picture, the walls are now light/dark grey and the carpet is a lighter brown

The after shot of the dark brown to now grey wall

The kitchen before - so icky!  Yellow and Red?

My kitchen now ;o)

The moving truck that moved us, along with 4 guys, who started at 8:00 am and finished unloading at 6:30 pm.  The truck was completely full, they could not fit another thing.

Summer and her friend Amy desperately wanting to go swimming.

Where is Waldo?

Where is Waldo?  Where am I?  We moved, that's where!  February was a crazy month, we bought a house and moved.  Oh that may not sound so crazy but let me tell you .... it was INSANE.  We are pretty much settled in now (finally) so maybe things will go back to normal, or back to a new normal, which I am liking so far.  In the meantime I haven't really taken any new pictures :o( I know, bad me!  I did take a picture of Pepper today because today she turned 16 months.  

Yes it was really windy in Vegas today, but at least it was also warm.  And I know I need to take more pictures of Summer, and maybe a few of our new house.  And sorry about the dog butt in the pictures - yuck.  

Valentine's Day

On Valentine's Day we headed to the park and met up with a bunch of other mommies and their little rascals and had a picnic and exchanged valentine cards and candies.  It was a little cold and a lot windy, but overall it was fun.  Summer did not really enjoy herself, I guess she wanted to open her bag of goodies instead of playing and I told her she had to wait until we got home so she wanted to go home :o)  Pepper had fun I think, she likes being outside and able to run around.

On Monday earlier this week Sara came over with Anastyn and we used her props to take a few cute photos of the girls.  It was fun and I think we got some good pictures.

Now to get ready for St. Patrick's Day!

Colorful Necklaces

Over the years we have collected a bunch of necklaces.  Parties, dress up, and who knows where else they call came from but we have a lot.  I decided to take Pepper outside, put a really BIG bow in her hair and take a bunch of pictures of her.  She actually smiled in some too - I had her shake shake shake the necklaces and that made her happy!

And for fun I decided to make one of the photos old looking - I think it came out great.  If only her outfit didn't look so not old :o)

15 Months

Pepper turned 15 months yesterday and today she had her 15 month appointment.  They made sure she is gaining weight, growing, and doing everything a 15 month old should.  Today she was 26 pounds and 8 ounces (92%), was 32.68 inches tall (99%) and her head was 47 centimeters (79%).  She got 2 shots, her chicken pox and a DTaP.  She cried but it really wasn't all that bad.  She had little tears but quit crying rather fast.  Overall she is healthy and doing great.  Here are a few pictures of her from two days ago enjoying a lollipop.

Love Month

February, when I think of you I think of hearts and red and love.  I also think of cold weather and icky days spent inside waiting for spring, but besides that ... the girls and I enjoyed some warmer weather outside taking photos with hearts and flowers and cute outfits.  We do what we can until spring.

Ducks and Birds

Yesterday we took the girls to the park.  They swung, slid, and chased birds!  Pepper LOVES ducks and geese and pigeons, she kept running after them screaming.  She easily would have followed them into the water if we were not there to stop her.  I am so glad the weather is warming up!