Our House

I love seeing houses. New houses, old houses, model houses....you name it! If you invite me into your home for a tour I will never say no!! So, with that said, I'll show you some picture of my house, that we are now selling. It would be easy to just post the online listing of our house, but that would be putting my address out there and I'm not cool with that. This is our very first home. We purchased it a month after our wedding (almost 5 years ago!!) Enjoy the pictures!

Welcome to our home!

Entry way. Cori & Levi's rooms, and bathroom are to the right, the dining/office to the left

 Living Room, the French Doors go out to the back yard.

the open squares look into the kitchen

Dining room that we use as an office for James. Wait until you see his office at the new house!! 

It's AWESOME!

Master Bed Room

My crazy red & zebra bathroom. I think this was one of those bad pregnant decisions. Even though I still like it, what in the world was I thinking painting RED on the walls? My Realtor says she likes it too, so we didn't paint over it before we listed our house. 

My sweet Levi's room. 

Cori's Room

The kid's bathroom

Our grand patio! Jackie says this will sell our house!

We have loved having this pool, but the pool at the new house is much better! 

We sure are going to miss this place but the new house has more to offer and a lot more property!! I can't wait to post about that!!

Before & After

So as you know our house is on the market to be sold. We already have a contract on our new house & we are supposed to close July 31st (giving us some time to sell ours. Pray, pray hard that it sells soon!). We've had 5 showings in 2 weeks & over 650 online views. Jackie, our realtor says that's great & she is hopeful that it will sell quickly! Anyway, Jackie was able to pull the original online listing of our home & send me pictures. I forgot how plane & dirty our house was when we bought it. It was a foreclosure & it looked like the previous owners trashed the place before they left. I made a few collages to show before & after. I did all of this from my phone so excuse the horrible quality!

James built a HUGE 26x26 covered patio on the back of our house, all wired with speakers, fans and recessed lights. I was so proud of him for thinking and creating this!! We have spent MANY hours outside here and a few birthday parties. I'm going to miss our outdoor space, seriously!! 

We upgraded all the fixtures, put hard wood floors in & painted. 

Masterbath and Breakfast room

I'm going to miss my baby's first bedrooms. This is so emotional!! 

Memorial Day (early)

We did our Memorial Day family time yesterday. My brother grilled hotdogs, we hung out, played & just had fun!

Mixed emotions!!

So we put our very first home on the market to sell. I'm excited & sad at the same time!! This has been an emotional roller coaster for me! This was the first house James & I bought a month after we got married. I brought both of Babies home to this house. So many memories have been made over the last 5 years here! My parents (built in sitters) live 3 houses down too. (where I grew up since 2nd grade) I can stand on the sidewalk in front of my house and my mom can stand in front of her house and Cori can run between houses. It's been SO nice to live so close. My mom is very upset about the sign in our yard and is trying very hard to keep her cool with me. She knows that we are not moving because of her. Our neighborhood is wonderful, and cozy and everyone knows everyone. Unfortunately, after an ISD rezone, we got stuck in some not so great schools within the ISD. I can't even begin to think of Cori attending the schools, and I almost fainted when I started calling for prices on private schools. We knew when we bought this house that it wasn't going to be forever, but five years sure did come quicker than we expected. We still have 2 years before Cori starts school but we have no idea how long it will take to sell our house. Wish us luck - we are hopefully headed to a better school district.

Mother's Day

My Mother's day was plane and simple, just the way I like it!! Cori woke me up at the butt crack of dawn remembering that it was Mother's Day! She ran to her back pack to get the cards she and Levi made for me at school. 

Miss Janie Loves my kids, she got them together to take these pictures and spent her own money to create this card and have it printed. I was so happy & I love it. This one is now at work with me! 

My first squishy hand print from Levi James! 

Cori colored, cut & glued this (with help) just for me!! 

I get this SAME piece of paper every year from Cori - I can't decide if I like it b/c I can compare the hand prints each year, or if it annoys me b/c they can't photo copy another saying for Mother's Day each year.

(okay, I'll quit complaining!) I love it. 

The rest of the day was spent hanging around the house, mostly outside in the pool. It was a perfect day and I am so blessed to have my babies!! Here is a awkward picture of us on Mother's Day!

10 on 10 May

My 10 on 10 has potential to to be extremely boring. I sit at a desk from 8am-5pm so instead of boring you with  work stuff all day, I've revised my 10 on 10. It's not 10 consecutive hours, but 10 life happenings throughout the day. Take it or leave it Ü (I hope you take it) I do this for fun, but I have no idea how to link up to the main site.....

Let's get busy @ work!!

The view from my desk.

Lunch Time!

50 Shakes  of Grey!
I love you Christian Grey!!

Bank Run - if it could only stay 80

Picking up my boo's from daycare. The blond is Cori's BFF, Brianna

McDonald's for Dinner (lazy mom night)

James cutting the yard before the storm - we are so lame...

We have had a yard guy for the past 5 years and a few weeks

ago, James decided to buy a mower.....now we fight over

who gets to mow each week. We both enjoy it! 

8pm - My Dad's mini tree farm. He grew those trees from acorns that 

fell from his big tree. These are about a year old, but doing well! 

I can't wait to plant one at our house!! I love special things like this! 

Cori & Pawpaw (my dad) watering the plants they planted together.

(yes, in an old bath tub)

We are so lucky to live 3 houses away from my parents. 

My kids get a lot of time with their Grandparents!!

Levi & Cori with their Yaya. 

Again, so lucky to live so close!! 

Did you notice this was picture #11 - yeah, I was never good @ following rules! 

10 on 10 Reminder!

I finally remembered on the 10th - I'm taking pictures today, even though I'm starting late (9am)! Stay tuned!  **I'm at work from 8-5 so don't expect my 10 on 10 to be very exciting! Maybe I'll venture out of the office toady for lunch....**