Sold!

If you haven't already heard through the grapevine, or seen my "sneak peak" snaps of moving boxes on my Snapchat, then let me be the first to tell you....
WE SOLD OUR HOME! 

It's been the CRAZIEST month of our lives as we decided, after much thought, prayer and careful consideration, that it was time for our family to move.  It was truly one of the biggest decisions Kevin and I have had to make this far in our marriage. We have absolutely loved living in Lehi and our neighborhood has HANDS DOWN been the best neighborhood we could have ever imagined.  We are so grateful for the three years we spent in this home and the house, neighborhood and neighbors will hold a special place in our hearts forever.
Let me do a little Q&A right now to answer the BIG questions EVERYONE has been asking! 
1. What made you decide to move? A neighbor on our street put their home up for sale and it sparked the question, should we move? This year has been the first time we realized how busy the street is behind our house. With small children wanting to be outside all the time, and a desire to want to entertain and have friends over for BBQs and summer bonfires, we knew it just wasn't possible!  We also had awesome equity in our home and really felt now was the best time to make this change before Hunter starts school next year.  PS. I don't think I'll miss the mink smell either! 
2. Didn't you JUST FINISH YOUR BASEMENT? YES!  It is a little sad we don't get to have our friends and family over to stay in our brand new "guest suite" (I think my mom is saddest about this) but it did help a lot with the equity in selling the home. Kev was surprisingly OK with leaving behind his hard work and has been looking at it as a great learning experience for him for future home renovations! 
3. When are you moving?  Our home is scheduled to close on June 16th.  Less then TWO weeks away.  We've had the final inspections and everything has gone smoothly so far, so we're hopeful everything will wrap up on our signing date! 
4. Where are you moving?  Without going into TOO much detail, we have a house under contract in PROVO, UT. Back to where it all started for Kev and I.  We found a beautiful home, in a quiet neighborhood, with great schools and close to everything we love about Provo.  Stay tuned for another post on the new place. (We're being cautious about giving too much detail publicly because you never know what could happen until papers are signed... That's Kevin's Commercial Real Estate Agent plug)  Here's a photo from the front steps of the new house to keep you happy! 

I love that my kids can see the "Y" on the mountain to which they automatically break out into harmonized chants of "B-Y-U! B-Y-U!" Apparently, they are their fathers children.
5. What do you need help with?  So far packing has been pretty painless and we have hired movers to help us out of the house on closing day.  I'm getting a little stressed the closer we get to MOVE OUT day, and may need help cleaning or watching the kids the week of so I can get stuff done, but if you're in the neighborhood and wanna stop by and give hugs and farewells, or bring me a Dirty Dr Pepper I won't say no ;) Also Prayers! Prayers of any kinds from anyone is always appreciated.  Prayers everything continues to run its course for us to be out of this house and into the next without being homeless! 


Thanks so much for the kind words and love we have received from our friends and family who did know!  It's been a blessing to be surrounded by people who love, support and help us through changing times. 
Xo Readers! 

The Grass is always greener...

We have GRASS!!

(And yes I took photos of the ENTIRE process)

If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, I apologize for my grass overload but I am so excited about it.

Honestly, it makes such a big difference to not be surrounded by yucky dirt.

We were thrilled when the developer agreed to add landscaping to the house when we sent in our offer to buy the home.

We are in a fairly new area and there are a handful of homes that are not landscaped and it looks so unfinished.

After the first week of living in the home I was done with all of the yucky dirt that was being drug into the house from outside. We have a vacant lot to the west of us and a home being built to the east and it's dusty EVERYWHERE.

(Probably a reason for my coughing the last two weeks)

They were supposed to start landscaping on Monday March 25th, but a prior project held them up and pushed our start day to Thursday March 28th. 

All week I would watch out the window waiting and hoping the landscapers would show up. 

Edge homes hired Automated Rain Sprinklers & Landscapes to do our yard and they were great. We worked with Doug and he was so nice and informative and answered any and all of our questions. 

We were VERY happy with their service.

(In Utah county needing your landscaping done? 

Check out Automated Rain Sprinklers & Landscapes here)

They got right to work when they finally arrived and our yard quickly was leveled out and had sprinklers in it.

Then they put in the fire pit area, our two trees, our mailbox, and curbed the flower beds.

Finally our yard was completed with beautiful, fresh, new, GREEN GRASS! 

It is so much nicer to look out our windows, or to pull up to the house in our car and see the lush green grass all around.

I feel so lucky that we were able to have the yard finished with the home. 

I could not imagine trying to do all that work ourselves.

Two weeks until we can walk on the grass but I am thinking we should have a s'mores night at our place once that time is up!!

Yes, I think you should all come.

Oh, can tomorrow really already be Friday?

This week has FLOWN BY.

I am so excited that I get to sneak out for a few hours tomorrow night with some of my favorite bloggers to attend the Fashion Place Mall Fashion Show! 

Who else is going?

It's from 6-8, Friday April5th and they are doing an Instagram giveaway where one lucky winner will get a $250 gift card to the mall.

Here are the rules:

1.       Follow Fashion Place on Instagram and Facebook.

2.       Snap a photo on Instagram (photos must be taken at the Fashion Place Spring Fashion event featuring you, fashion, art, or a mix of these).

3.       Tag both @fashionplacemall and #fashionplacemall so we can find your photos.

4.       The more photos you take, the more entries you get (one entry per photo).

5.       FP will host a drawing of all entrants and one lucky winner will receive a $250 gift card to shop your favorite stores at Fashion Place!

6.       Winner will be announced Monday, Apr. 9, on Fashion Place’s Instagram and Facebook.

Hope to see you bloggers there!

We are HOME. (the move and first week)

It still seems make believe.

It feels like we are just playing house and that we are going to wake up tomorrow and we'll be back in that AWFUL apartment.

But, every morning we wake up here, in OUR home and its the most incredible feeling ever.

Saturday was moving day!

We woke up early to make sure everything was ready to go.

Kevin picked up the truck and we were ready to move at 9am.

A HUGE THANK YOU...

to our old ward family members; Jared, Jon, Brother Carr and his son, and Brother Larson! 

Another big thanks to our new ward friend Devon for helping at the house.

We were able to get everything moved over in two truck loads.

It's amazing how much more stuff you have then you think you do!

How did it all fit in our little apartment?

All week I had been bringing full car loads over of clothes, breakables and misc stuff to make the unpacking process a little less crazy. I made a total of 15 trips between Monday, when we got the keys and Saturday. It was crazy as I moved all that stuff over myself while trying to manage a nine month old but it really paid off when Saturday night rolled around.

It felt so good not to have TOO many boxes to unpack. I couldn't imagine living out of boxes for days.

Saturday night we had most of the boxes unpacked and things put away in their new homes.

Saturday, Hunter got really sick. 

After a long day of moving mommy and Hunter were exhausted and fell asleep at 6pm. We both woke up at 9 when Hunter started to through up. His fever jumped to 101 and he was so fussy. We called my folks who gave us a few tips to bring down the fever and we watched him all night. We honestly only got 3 maybe 4 hours of sleep.

To say the least Sunday morning we were walking zombies.

Hunter was still not feeling well and his temp was still over 100.

He wanted to be held all the time and would SCREAM anytime would lay him down.

Longest Day Ever.

We were able to make a huge delicious breakfast to give us a little energy but spent most of the day taking care of our sick little guy.

Hunter had his nine month check up Monday morning.

(more about that in the next post... but Dr. did verify hunter had a stomach bug)

The rest of the week has been spent getting the home settled. 

Getting final boxes put away and trying to decide how I am going to decorate.

We also had all of our home amenities installed. 

Comcast, Direct TV and Vivint Home Security. 

Today our landscaping was started! (3 days late but no big deal) 

The Fire Pit area.

Sprinklers.

It's so exciting! 

(Hunter thought so also)

Our neighborhood is still pretty new and there are a lot of unfinished yards so I am very happy ours will be finished and look beautiful just in time for Spring and Summer!

Oh and did I mention we are getting a fire pit put in?! 

Parties in our backyard ALL summer long. 

There are still a few things that need to be done. 

Organizing the basement, which is quickly turning into a complete MAN CAVE.. complete with gym, ping pong table and cable Internet.

Getting the blinds installed, finding a few more pieces of furniture and putting things on my walls. 

All in time. 

Stay tuned for lots of home posts as we continue to make it ours.

For now here are some more photos! 

Kitchen

Laundry

Living Room

Living Room

Master Bedroom

Master Bathroom

Hunters Bedroom

Guest Bedroom

Stairwell

The 4th bedroom will be used as an office/craft room until baby #2 comes along (NOT AN ANNOUNCEMENT). More pictures once that is better organized. 

The basement also needs a bit more organizing and Kevin has to set up the ping pong table and then we will post pictures.

Thanks for stopping by Readers! 

Happy Thursday!