We had a blast playing pickle ball with our good friends the Petersen's the other night. The girls love playing with MJ and Max.
This actually happened the other day and I literally thought the exact same thing.
Kristen captured these cute photos!
Our whole life has turned upside down in a matter of a week! Out of the blue Loren and I started throwing around the idea of selling our house. The housing market is insanely good for sellers right now which also makes it insanely bad for buyers. With the issues we've had with the water in the basement and crawlspace, we knew we couldn't get as good of a return on it in any other market. There's a huge shortage of housing right now which is sending home prices sky high. We talked to my brother, Cam who has his realtor's license, and he said other homes in our neighborhood had been selling for around $350,000. We bought our home for $224,000 so that number was sounding pretty good to us! We prayed, fasted and talked with Mom and Dad Peck about it. We felt good about selling it, and weirdly almost a sense of urgency like we needed to do it right now.
We followed the prompting and started getting our house ready to show. We knew we needed to repaint the trim around the outside doorframes but as Loren got more into it, decided to repaint the doors as well. They turned out so amazing! WHY didn't we do this four years ago?? A huge thank you to Dad Peck for helping.
We got a storage unit and started moving stuff out of the crawlspace. The goal was to make the house "show worthy" which meant everything out of the crawlspace and then bigger stuff or things we still needed would go into the crawlspace.
Allie loves her aunts and uncles, especially Maddy and Daniel!
Sunday night walks are the best. Hudson loves the "goaps".
Chris and Kristen invited us over for FHE. We had fun decorating flags and having an epic Pokemon battle.
Storage unit is filling up!
Dad Peck came and put this beautiful trim around the room which brought the question again, WHY did we wait so long to do that??
In the middle of all that was the Nibley Children's Theatre! The girls practiced for seven days then had two performances. This year's show was called Cindy Goes to the Sockhop. Each parent must volunteer four hours and so this was my part. I spent like three months worth of time doing the DVD's the year before so I didn't feel guilty at all.
My adorable little Magic Mouse!
Finally it was time for the show! Thursday night my mom came and Friday night Loren's parent's, my dad and Aaron came. It was so nice to have their support. The girls did so good and had a blast!
Allie got so into it, I was really surprised.
Wednesday night we had most the kitchen in boxes but nothing was taped up as I still needed to label everything. Most the house was still a mess with sorting stuff to DI and such. We took a trailer load out to Avon with our beds and dressers and that was that. We had officially moved out of our house! It didn't hit me until we were driving away. If I had known the night before was our last one in the house, I would have maybe done something memorable... but maybe not. All I knew was that things were moving quickly and I could hardly believe it was real.
The next morning at 9:00 Loren looked at his phone. To our horror, he had a text notifying him that our home had been listed on the MLS. We were told it would take 2-3 days to get it posted but apparently not! Loren's phone was BLOWING up with realtor's wanting to take their clients through the house. We sprinted out the door and I drove like a maniac to the house. The first agent was coming through at 11 AM and it was currently 9:30. Mom Peck sent out an SOS text and before we knew it, Dad Peck, Landon, Grandma Swan, Kim, and Logan were all there to help. It was probably the craziest hour of my life. We had people throwing random stuff into boxes with no rhyme or reason and running them outside. I could hear Landon saying, "This feels so wrong!" I had to agree but didn't have time to mourn the loss of my organized move. When the agent pulled up we were all sweaty and huffing but the house was mostly empty and clean. I couldn't believe we had pulled it off. What incredible family we have!! It brought tears as I thought about how they had dropped everything to come help us.
Loren was on his phone setting up appointments for walkthrough's every minute for the next three days. We had people coming every 20 minutes for those three days which added up to close to 50 showings. By Sunday he was absolutely exhausted and I can see why people hire realtors. He couldn't do anything else other than answer texts or calls. By Monday we had 15 offers! Not one of them was at or below the asking price of $330,000. We eventually decided on a $360,000 cash offer which we're really excited about. If all goes to plan, we'll be closing on the 9th of July. It's been amazing how fast the process has gone. Our heads are still reeling but we're so grateful!
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