Our New Home

So it's official....As of Tuesday, May 26th, we will have a new home! YEAH!!! We close at 9am so as soon as all the paperwork is signed on our house here in Olathe and the new home in Lee's Summit, we'll take possession! We had the inspection on the house this past Monday night. Here are the pictures of our new home...

The front view


The back of the house

Ryan's favorite part of the house....the HUGE backyard

Another view of the back yard

View of the living room from the front door

View of the fireplace

Kitchen

Built-in shelf in the kitchen


Rylee's Room - and yes, this will be painted immediately after moving in....I can't have my little girl living in a BLUE room!

Rylee's play room

Built-in bookshelf in the playroom....LOVE IT!!

The family room in the basement

Master bath


Master bedroom


We can't wait to get our stuff in the house and make it our own!

We have spent the last 2 weeks packing, packing and packing! We've taken two large loads over to Lee's Summit so we feel pretty good about everything we've got done. This Thursday we will pack up the rest of the furniture, the kitchen stuff, the bathroom stuff and all our clothes. The house will pretty much be empty come next weekend.

Other than packing and getting ready to move, we haven't been up to a whole lot. Not enough time to do anything else.

I'll try to take some new pictures of Rylee this week. She's not sure what is going on in her world right now but she sure is being a trooper!!

Until next time...TTFN!!

Catching Up

Wow...I'm so sorry I haven't posted a single thing this week. Lord knows enough has happened since last Saturday. I'll start at the beginning...

We listed our house with Reece & Nichols on Wednesday, April 22nd. That is when all the craziness began for us. We pretty much had a showing almost every single day. We received our first offer the following Tuesday. It was a crappy offer so of course we shot back a counter offer later that afternoon. We received a counter back the next morning and was told that was their final offer. It still was way lower than we wanted so we declined it. We were pretty bummed but yet knew that we needed to make a profit on our home before we could move. So, we were back at square one.

The weekend came and we were so looking forward to a nice relaxing weekend at home, with nothing to do!! THINK AGAIN!! We ended up having 3 showings last Saturday....one of which, ended up making an offer. We received an offer around 8:15pm last Saturday night and believe it or not, they were offering us the listing price of our house. And to make things even better, they didn't want any closing costs!! They just wanted the fridge in the kitchen to stay and for us to buy them a home warranty plan. SOLD!!! Yes folks, that's right. As of 9:30pm last Saturday night, our house officially SOLD! We hadn't it listed with our agent for 10 days. Can you believe that??? The only downfall of the offer was that the gal wanted to close and take possession on Tuesday, May 26th. If you are doing the math, that would be 3 weeks from the day it sold! YIKES!!

So Sunday rolls around, and we needed to find a place to live. We met our realtor in Lee's Summit at 4:30pm to start looking at houses. We had 8 houses picked out. NEVER in a million years did I dream we would find a home on our first day out. Well, we did just that! The 7th house we looked at was PERFECT!! We came home to do a little soul searching and crunch some numbers to make sure this would work for us. We made an offer on Monday morning! They countered back on Monday evening and again, it was back to soul searching and number crunching. We accepted their counter offer on Tuesday morning.

It was official!! 3 weeks from this past Tuesday, we would be closing on our current home in Olathe, closing on our new home in Lee's Summit and taking possession!! WHEW!!! See, I told you we had been busy!!!

We rented a storage unit in Lee's Summit so we'd have a place to move all of our stuff for a short period of time. Ryan's family came up yesterday to help us take a big load of stuff to storage. Our house seems pretty empty but believe it or not, we've still got a lot of stuff to pack and move!! We feel good about everything we got done though!!

Tomorrow we have our inspection at the new house so I plan to take lots of pictures so I'll try get them posted this week sometime.

You'll all have to bare with me during this very busy, exciting yet stressful time in our lives!!! I'll do my best to keep you posted on the happenings but honestly, being on the computer is the last place I should be!!

Last but not least, I'd like to wish all the mother's out there a very Happy Mother's Day!!

Until next time....TTFN!!