Saturday February 19

After a week of 12 home showing, we had a few hours to get our yard ready for the Open House on Sunday afternoon. We finished raking the leaves in the back and side of the house. No it is not fall, but after our first year here we learned not to worry about raking all the time in the fall, because the leave fall until March. We mowed the lawn, pulled weeds, spread mulch, and scrubbed the back deck. We all worked together to beautify our already cute house.

Now if you know Halle, you will know that she LOVES messes, especially those that involve spreading something (peanut butter, tooth paste, lip gloss, pudding, lotion, mud, water, just to name a few things I have scrubbed out of couches and carpet.), so I put her in charge of scrubbing the back deck.Yep, she loved it. And diligently scrubbed for over an hour.

Her work (and everyone else's) paid off. Sunday evening we had a close to full price offer. We couldn't refuse. We countered back a few closing cost issues, but in the end the house SOLD in 9 days. They are letting us rent it back until we need to go in June. We are very blessed. Moving will be extremely hard, but we know that it is the right thing for our family.