I scream, you scream

We all scream for vegan ice cream!
Vegan= non-dairy, and they had it in chocolate! Yummy

SOLD

Its been a whirl-wind. We listed the house on Wednesday around 11 am and had 12 showings the first day. Woke up on Thursday morning to hear we had multiple offers and they were still coming in. All good offers too. Lauren and I were up in Winter Park awaiting out-of-town family visitors. I really had not decided where we were going to move. I briefly looked at 4 properties on wednesday, and two of which I did not even go upstairs. I chose the 4 houses because there were close to each other and in a good school district- I didn't have much time to look so I picked the ones within the same housing development. I figured we would look again more closely once our house sold.

Hold your shorts! Once we heard that the house was going to sell within a day-  I called the real estate agent about the one house I had liked of the four. Asked her to talk to the agent about price and set up a saturday showing for Jeff and I to look at it together (jeff had not seen a single property). The call came back (before 10am mind you) that it had an offer. The only house I had seen that I liked- has an offer, Jeff hasn't seen it and my brother, aunt and uncle land at DIA in 10 minutes. I call Jeff- he is shocked and says,
J: "you liked it right?"
N: " yes I think so"
J:" then make an offer"
N: "but I want you to see it first"
J: " I trust you and dont have time. Just make an offer" (he was at work and planning on driving to the mountains right after"
 Well, I couldnt buy a house without him seeing it. I emailed him the link to the listing and he liked it, once again suggesting  Igo ahead without him. I couldn't do it, and convinced him to look at it after work. I called the agent to meet him there and have the contract written, we decided on our offer and would make it if Jeff liked the place. He liked it, looked around for a few minutes- signed the offer and hopped in his car. I signed it from my phone- and viola! We bought a house- FAST! In the meantime there is a nice little bidding war over our house and I go to bed at 11pm knowing we were going to do well on our house and closing in less than a month.
Oh boy! here we are in a flood of inspections and paperwork. We have a back-up offer under contract on our house in case the first offer falls though. Our loan is done and our inspection on the house we bought went well. We are moving on the 20th of APRIL! Holy crap!
Our real estate agency is amazing!! I knew they were when we hired them, but WOW!! If you need an agent in Denver- http://www.washingtonparkhomes.com/ - Laurie Erb and her group are the very best. No question!
So, I need a moving company, a new preschool, a whole lotta furnature and some Ambien- all by April 20th. My mom is thankfully coming for the weekend of the move to help with Lauren. This is just a wild ride and I hope we are happy in our new place, its just surreal. We are moving to Greenwood Village in southeast Denver - a great school district and a 4 bedroom house with a big yard.   HERE WE GO!

For Sale

It's on!
I kinda cannot believe it, but our house is for sale. Yesterday we already had 9 showings and we had it listed ForSale at 11am yesterday, so i am suspicious this may go fast! Many more showings today! I found a house that I Iike yesterday, so we will see. Our house looks great, and the pictures and virtual tour are fun to see- you can find it in www.washingtonparkhomes.com or on www.realtor.com you just need to find our house (I will email my address if you don't know it- I don't want to post online).
Wish us luck! This is so stressful for me (perfectionist,planner stress case - not really made for this kinda thing).

More regrets...

Yet another thing about our house that I always have wanted to change- the bathroom sinks and drains are gold- yuck! Well this week Jeff and I changed them out for $33 a piece. OMG- it looks so much better, why did we wait? I am going to have a different approach at the next place- don't put off simple repairs and changes!

Growth Chart

Lauren's door frame, sadly I painted over it this weekend. First we took a bunch of pictures of her by it and some with a tape measure held up to it so we could recreate it at a new house once we move.

She was kind of sad that it had to go away because she measures her self on it often, but when we told her that we would redraw it at the new house she was fine. She is so set on getting a pink room and a HUGE bed, I really hope this process goes fast!

No more please......

So sick of painting........

Dangerous?

Working on projects today and Lauren is helping me to tape off the woodwork for painting. A funny conversation, I was around the corner and couldn't see her.
L: mommy, can I go this high?
Me: I don't know, is it dangerous?
L: no
I almost said sure, but I decided to o look and this is what I saw. She certainly is resourceful.

Tutu dresses

Lauren is really into fancy dresses and fancy shoes lately (yay yay! Mama loves it!). CostCo has the tutu dresses back this year and we picked these two out, arent they cute?

iPhone

I love my iPhone! Recently my android phone broke and I converted to an iPhone. I wasn't sure at first that I was going to be an iPhone girl. But I am here to say it is the best move I ever made. I love love love it! Does anyone have iPhone apps that they could recommend? I have ton of apps on my phone that I really like but I'm always looking for some more. Some of my favorites are HeyTell and shazam and of course the blogger app. Oh and I wish I could have recorded a conversation that Lauren had with Siri this weekend when she accidentally closed a game she was playing. It was hilarious! She was having a conversation back and forth with Siri asking her to open up her pirate Game.

A real bike?

At Costco the other day. Maybe we should not have bought her a glider, but a real bike instead. She was much more interested in this big girl bike, it even had a dolly seat on the front handlebars ( not in the photo, but came with it). We didn't get it, but she may need it if we move to a new house...

She can write her name!

What a smarty pants! I am such a proud mama!