House update: What a Difference a Week Makes!

A quick house update- we closed on the sale of our old home on April 29th. Everything went smoothly thank goodness! That afternoon we rode out to check on the new house. The lumber had just been delivered the Saturday before and here it was 5 days later and this is what we saw!

WOW!!!  I am thinking that closing the end of June may actually happen. That is if everything else on our end works out....praying for that.  Will post more about that later! Let's just say it has been a very stressful week. We need all the prayers we can get!!  Hope to have more postiive news and will update more this weekend!!

Packing, Playing Princess & More Packing!

Well we survived our trip to New York and had a great time visiting family! I did manage to come home with a cold though which does not work well for packing. On top of that I got food poisoning Monday night and am still recovering. Not fun!!! Yesterday I was pretty worthless but today we did make a dent in our never ending list of things to do.

Of course you can always count on kids to bring fun to any situation. Keira loved playing with the boxes & helped me out with some packing while Callie napped.

Keira in her "house"

Later, to get some sunshine, we took some boxes outside and made a princess castle. I was the witch and she was Snow White :)

Then we had a little chick-fil-a picnic for lunch then it was back to Packing!!

Tomorrow we close on the house. Kind of bitter sweet! I hope all goes well but I am definitely sad to leave our first house! We do have a few more days to finish moving though. That will help me get my closure and say my goodbyes!

Cleaning out Clutter & Packing!!

I've been following a long over at Money Saving Mom with the Clear out the Clutter Challenge. I'm sure we all have clutter that we need to get rid of from time to time. Me especially, since we are packing to move next week! I haven't been able to follow on the same schedule as her. However I did work on one of the girl's bedrooms today. I only have a picture of the closet, which is bad enough, but you don't even want to see the room since it is being torn apart and packed up! Here it is before I started:

I don't have an after because it is still not finished! And most of it will be in boxes for storage with the exception of what is going to grandma's for two months til our house is ready! We did get one LARGE box of items to donate, a trash bag full of old, worn out items and several boxes for storage. I have a feeling I will be doing even more "Clutter Clearing" when we move in. With Keira in the room with me, it's very challenging to get her to let go of things. And I admit, I am a sucker at times!  With that said, I leave you with the most adorable photo below. She has a thing for stuffed animals. She didn't want to get rid of any or send any to storage. I had her choose a couple favorites and the rest went into a box. All on her own she hugged each one, told them good bye and that she would miss them and placed them gently in the box. Awww!!!! My sweet girl!

Home Inspection Day

We put our house on the market at the end of February and are relieved to say we now have a contract!! This morning we had the inspection for the buyers and are now anxiously awaiting the results!! With a house built in 1980, you never know what they may find.

It seems like just yesterday we had our inspection when we were buying the house 7 years ago. I remember funny things the inspector said, where I sat outside thinking "this could be my new neighborhood" and hoping all went well!! Time really does fly. Now 7 years and 2 kiddos later, it is time to move on. We have simply outgrown this house. But oh how I will miss it!! The trees especially, the girls swing in the front yard, the squirrels and birds that play in them, the leaves in the fall, the shade in the summer, and then just the coziness of our house and the pride we take in all the work we have done to it. Moving out will defnitely be bittersweet.

As much as we will miss this house, I am praying for only minor repairs needed on this inspection report so we are able to move and hopeful it will turn out ok !!