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!!

Bad Blogger

Hello everyone!! So sorry I've been slacking on updating this lately! We've just been a lot busier than normal lately! A lot has gone on since my last blog!

As of Wednesday, April 22nd, we "officially" listed our house with Reece & Nichols. We tried the For Sale by Owner for 7 months with no luck. Ryan was DONE with it so we decided to let our realtor take over. We've had 3 showings since last Wednesday and we received our first offer yesterday....YEAH!!! Even though it was a pretty low offer, we were still excited to have something on the table. We of course counter-offered and are just waiting to hear back. This negotiating and waiting game is NO FUN!!! Keep your fingers crossed for us that we get this thing sold quickly!!

My parents came up this past weekend to keep Rylee for us. The ended up bringing my niece Ashlee with them. She and Rylee had all kinds of fun with MeMe and PaPa all weekend long!! Here is a picture of the girls from the house.



On Saturday, one of my very dear friends was getting married. Jenni Boehmer, who I refer to as JB, has become one of my very best friends. I met her 9 years go after I moved to KC. I met her through another friend, and then proceeded to meet the rest of the Concorida Crew!! I am so very thankful that Jenni (and the rest of the crew) came into my life!! They have become part of my family!! I am also so thankful that Jenni found Eric! He is a great guy and he fits in perfectly with our group! I couldn't be happier for them!! Here are some pictures from the wedding and reception.

Jen & Kent

Richard & Aly

Brett & Gina

Me & Ryan

Ryan and I before we left the house

Mr. & Mrs. Eric Johnson

The girls with the bride

The girls - Erin, Aly, Me, Gina, Ang & Jen


We ended the night in the Power & Light District. We had a blast...probably a little bit too much fun! GOOD TIMES with GREAT FRIENDS!!

Me & JB -- LOVE YA GIRL!!

Brett, Kent & Ryan


Ang, Me & Gina


JB & Ryan


Ang & I


I'll catch up on the rest of the happenings on my next post.

TTFN

Weekend happenings and Birthday Fun!!

Ok, so here it is Tuesday and I have yet to BLOG about our weekend. SORRY!! Been a little busy and absent minded!!

My birthday was Saturday so we had a fun filled evening planned. HOWEVER, my hubby let me start my celebrating early by enjoying a night of shopping...ALL BY MYSELF!! It was great! Rylee had lots of fun while I was gone as well! We finally broke down and bought her a sandbox for the backyard and boy, was it a BIG hit!!! I guess she played in it all evening while I was shopping. Ryan said she just loved it! Here are a few pictures that he took...




Needless to say she was a mess afterwards and required a rinsing off with the hose in the backyard before Ryan brought her into the house. GOOD MAN!!

Saturday morning, my hubby was so kind to let me sleep in a bit since it was my b-day. I woke up to Rylee running down the hall to me saying "Happy Birthday Mommy, I've got cards!" She was carry the cards that she and Ryan had gotten for me. It was sooooo cute. She even signed (or attempted to at least) her own name. Of course when I asked her about it, she told me that she drew me a picture. TOO CUTE!! Then they brought me my present....Rylee helped drag the box into the living room. Drum roll please...........they got me a Wii Fit. YEAH!!!!!!! I was sooooo excited! My suttle hints paid off! We played it for a while but then I was off to take Rylee to get her hair cut and do some shopping at Old Navy. We had some fun mommy-daughter time!!! While Ryan and Rylee were both napping, I spent all afternoon on my Wii Fit. I just couldn't stop!! I LOVE IT!! BEST GIFT EVER!! Ok maybe not but it's pretty darn close!!!

That evening, we got a sitter so we could go out with our friends. We started the night with dinner and drinks at Red Lobster! YUMMY!!! Joining us for dinner was Richard & Aly, Scott & Ang, Jenni & Eric, and Geeter! The food was absolutely delicious!! Jenni and I split some shrimp and lobster pasta dish and it was "to die for." Here are a few pictures from dinner.



Aly & Jenni


After we got done eating, it was off to AMF College Lanes for EXTREME BOWLING!!! OMG, did we ever have a ball!!! Along with the group from dinner, my cousin Janaye and friend Marianne joined us. I pretty much rocked everyone's world the first game. I even beat Ryan!!! He was NOT HAPPY about that!! The next game, I didn't fair so well. After a few too many drinks and a blister on my thumb from the ball, my game went downhill and in a hurry. Aly even beat me!!!!! LOVE YA GIRL!! Here are the pictures from the evening!!

Me & Janaye


Me & JB (the soon to be Mrs. Johnson)


Aly & I


Me, Ang & Richard


Ryan & I


Sunday, we had to get up and get the house ready for a showing from 11:30-1:30. Cleaning your house with a terrible headache is NOT FUN!! I wouldn't recommend it to anyone! We spent the afternoon at the mall and then back home by 2pm for a meeting with our realtor!

After 7 months of trying to sell our house on our own, we have decided to throw in the towel!! As of tomorrow, our house will "officially" be listed with Reece & Nichols. We are hoping that they will have better luck getting our house sold! We are starting to get very anxious to get moved to Lee's Summit!! We hope and pray that we get an offer and a contract on the house soon!!

Well, that is our weekend in a nutshell!! GOOD TIMES had by all!

Hope everyone is having a great week so far!

TTFN

Playground fun with Rylee

Tonight, it was just me and Rylee!! Ryan went golfing with some buddies so it was girls night! We decided since it was such a beautiful evening, that we'd walk down to the school and play at the playground. Rylee had a ball!! She is a really big fan of the slipper slides. On the way there, she kept saying "Slipper slide, I coming!!" She could hardly contain herself! Here are a few pictures from our evening of fun!




She did give the swing a try but wasn't a huge fan....

And if we say cheese, this is the face that we get....


We really enjoyed our evening outside! Let's hope the weather stays like this for a while!

Nothing else new to report. I guess I better finish dinner. Hope everyone has a good rest of the week!

TTFN

Happy Easter!!

We hope everyone had a great Easter Weekend!! We sure did! Yesterday, we loaded up and headed to Lee's Summit to spend the day/night with Ryan's brothers and their families! Here is a picture of my super cute nephew, Matthew. He's 4 months old.

We spent the afternoon playing the Wii while the kids slept. Once the kids woke up, it was time to hunt the Easter Eggs. Here is a picture of Rylee and her cousin Jackson with their baskets.

Ryan decided he needed to get in on the fun....

The kids had a ball hunting for the eggs.




After the egg hunting was over, the kids enjoyed chasing the bubbles.


We are so thankful that we had such a beautiful day on Saturday.

Sunday morning we got up and headed back to Olathe so we could attend the Easter Service at our church. Rylee really didn't want to have her picture taken but I was able to snap a few...by bribing her a banana!!!!

Rylee & I

Rylee & her daddy