Contract is being drafted!

It's about time, right? Sounds like the holidays got in the way a bit. But we have received word that they are now working on our contract! Next step? Who knows. I'm going to guess we'll have it by the end of February, that leaves plenty of time for things to go wrong...

Some random pics of Little Miss

Just because she's super cute.

Striking a pose while on our vacation.

Hating the sand.

Someone taught her the three point stance. And yes, she even goes after you count off the "snap".

CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE!

And so it actually begins

I met with our realtor this past Friday. We walked from room to room, going over everything we need to do in order to list the house. Mostly our list consists of "clean up, make everything neat, purge". Like I said before, we have ALOT of crap!

Anyway, after the list was compiled we sat down and signed paperwork. After that was all done, we walked outside where our realtor took a picture of the front of our house. While I stood out there with her, looking at this house in the sunlight with all of the work we have done to it, I was overcome with sadness.

I quickly said goodbye to the realtor and made it inside. I picked up the phone, called Brian at work, and cried.

This is not a house, this is our home! I bought this house almost five years ago and since then, we've made it our own. We had to, this place was a dump when I got it. We spent three months cleaning, painting, and fixing the house up before I even moved in. Brian proposed to me in our guestroom the day before I moved in. Friends of ours have visited and stayed with us here. We were married while living here. We brought our daughter home from the hospital to this house and made it through sleepless nights here. We have fantastic neighbors and a fantastic neighborhood.

How do we let all of that go?

Well, we don't have a choice at this point. The papers are signed.

In the meantime, I am focusing on all of the adventures ahead of us and the memories that we will make. And treasuring all those we made here.

So, know of anyone looking to buy a great house?

Halloween Pictures, a wee bit late

So I'm a little late with the Halloween pictures. But they are worth it, I promise!

Brian was a flower for his little ladybug.



Marion had more fun running around at first, but then got into the candy thing.




Then things got a little crazy.




But she was happy again once we let her run around in the house without her costume.



And that was it! Oh, and no, Brian no longer has the flower shirt in case anyone wanted to borrow it. :-)