There was so much to get done in September that I’m just now able to sit down and write about it. Finish selling the house Find a rental in Washington Book a trip (moving truck, rental car, hotel, flight, storage unit, oh my) Take a long weekend trip Find a job Find movers and setContinue reading
Author: Laura
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A Whirlwind of Things
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To the new owners…
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Dear new home owners, Congratulations on your buying your first house! You picked a great one 🙂 It really didn’t start out that way but with a lot of hard work, we think it turned out pretty nice. Here’s the house we bought in 2001: Over the years we transformed our first house into theContinue reading
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So many happenings!
0Sale Pending After just over a week on the market including one weekend of open houses, we received THREE offers by the deadline that our realtor set. Phew! One of the offers wasn’t that great but the other two were both above asking!!! Each family wrote super sweet letters that basically screamed “Pick me!” TheContinue reading
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Open for Business!
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After weeks of hard work, we finally listed the house last Tuesday! We had a few showings during the week and then a solid weekend of open houses where there were about 40 groups of people…a few originally came on Saturday and then came back on Sunday to measure things. A great sign! We haveContinue reading
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All the Feels
0We’ve been moving a mile a minute trying to get a years worth of projects done in a month that I haven’t had a chance to really think. Now that we’re as done as we can be and the house is on the market, all of the feels are starting to come out. Worry DidContinue reading
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House plans finalized!
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And we love them! The builders did a great job adjusting the plans we purchased to what we wanted. First, they plotted out where everything is going to go on our property – the county needs this plan when submitting for permits. See all of that extra space…everywhere? Front View We pushed the house outContinue reading
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Purge all the things!
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Fifteen years of things, that is… Woah, we have a lot of stuff. So much stuff. The boys have a crazy amount of toys they don’t play with anymore. Books they don’t read anymore. Clothes they don’t fit into anymore. The list goes on and on. So let’s purge all the things! And try toContinue reading
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Small town…Big community
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Another Road Trip We spent our Fourth of July vacation taking another road trip up to Washington. We’ve got the two day drive down now with enough time for a family visit pit stop and an overnight stay in Ashland, OR – the perfect half way point. But this time we took an extra travelerContinue reading
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So much for plans…
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“60 Days” My stomach dropped when the head of “People Services” – aka HR – told me that my job was being relocated to Troy, NY. After 4.5 years of working my ass off, spending time away from my family, putting in many extra hours to get the job done, they said that my jobContinue reading
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Progress!
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Holy moly, this is hard! Who would have thought that building our dream house would be so hard to do? We’ve spent the last few months scouring affordable plans that we’d be able to build within our budget. We finally put four plans into a “we agree” board on Pinterest. Then we printed them allContinue reading
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Oh Property Brothers Where Art Thou?
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Now if you’ve never watched the Property Brothers (aka Jonathan and Drew) on HGTV or any of their other shows, I totally recommend you get out from under than rock and find a comfy spot on the couch! Not only do they take complete fixer uppers and transform them into completely beautiful spaces, they also showContinue reading
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The Plan
0The greatest part of the trip we just had was that we wound up with a pretty solid plan. 2016 Plan Decide on a builder Pick a plan that we can afford to build Buy plan Get bank financing in place Save all the monies Sign contract with the builder Get all permits filed withContinue reading