Whoa...What A Month!!!

Since my last post, we ACTUALLY DID SELL OUR HOUSE and get moved into the rental that we will live in until the new house is complete. HUGE undertaking! Major Headache! Complete Mental & Physical Exhaustion! These are just a few phrases that describe the past three weeks of our lives. We closed on our house one week ago today, and it was very emotional for me. Of course selling our house and moving was the goal, but I found it much harder to drive away from our house for the last time than I had expected. We had made so many wonderful memories in that house, and even though it was time to move on, it was still very sad.

I cannot wait to get started on the new build! We are waiting to hear back from our estimation set of plans before we move forward with our house plans. I promise to OVER blog about the entire process. I am beyond excited about starting from scratch!

In the mean time, I will leave you with this...the boys had a Super Bowl party on Sunday (yes, just one week after we moved in), and it was a huge success. We had 11 boys here for about three hours of "Pre Party"!

Some of you may remember this photo...

Brendan is a big Patriots fan (this started about three years ago) so he was so happy that New England made it to the Super Bowl.

Although I did not go over the top, I did have fun planning the party with the boys. I even enlisted their help in decorating and putting together football popcorn boxes.

Brownie Bites from C*stco decorated as footballs!

My attempt at chocolate covered strawberries decorated with a store-bought icing cookie decorator.

Of course the boys played outside the entire time. The older boys played football, and the younger ones played soccer (in the soaked back yard).

In the end, I think they all had a great time! I know my two were completely exhausted by game time!

Too bad for Brendan that the Patriots lost! He was one upset little boy! Congratulations to all you Giants fans out there. Maybe one day my Cowboys will head back to the big game!!! :)

An Early Christmas Gift

Our house went under contract just EIGHT days after it was listed!

What a great and unexpected Christmas gift!

I thought it would be fun to show the realtor's photos from when we briefly had our house listed in January 2009 compared to the current photos.

One of the Things

As I mentioned previously, we have had a lot going on lately.

One of those is that we have decided to buy a couple of acres of land to build on. This means that we have been working very hard for about a month and a half trying to get our house ready to put on the market.

Originally we were going to wait until January, but in our true fashion, we decided to go ahead and list this past Thursday.

We have cleaned out storage rooms, closets, and most importantly...Jackson's room! :)

We have also had all of our large grasses and shrubbery pruned.

The house has been pressure washed, and we've had several rooms repainted along with our front door.

A closet was also added to our bonus room so that we can officially call it a bedroom!

The result...

The house has been on the market for 3 days. We have had 3 showings so far!!!

We are hoping all this work pays off!

I May be Crazy

We woke up this morning with this in our front yard...

Yes, we may be crazy! We decided to put our house on the market this week AND make an offer on a larger home just about five miles away. We will have a contingency clause, though, which means that we will not be buying the larger home unless ours sells first. Please wish us luck. We would really like to move before Emma comes home - for obvious reasons!

So for the past 12 hours I have been transforming our master bathroom from Benjam*n Moore Pear Green to Olymp*c Toasted Almond.

Much more palatable for the prospective buyers, I'm sure!