I first blogged about our move to Kansas here. Well, a lot has happened since then!
Our house was set to go on the market Wednesday, January 15. Our realtor called me the Friday before wondering if we would be willing to let him show it on Sunday. Who's going to turn down a showing offer?! Well, if you saw my house that Friday he called-you probably would have thought I would've turned him down. Nope. Adam had been out of town all week. He got home Friday afternoon and we literally cleaned from then until Sunday at 2:00 when we had to leave for Coop's soccer game and the showing. We have done this many times before with our other homes so we knew what had to be done, like shove things in any drawer you can find and dust things that haven't been dusted since we moved in (kidding…maybe ;)).
The showing was Sunday afternoon and by Monday night we had an offer on the house that we accepted. The icing on the cake...it was a full price offer! Wow! I can't begin to tell you how thankful I am for that offer. I don't think I knew how hard it was going to be to get the house ready for showings with the 3 kids until we were in the middle of it, especially with Piper being so fussy at the time.
I wasn't worried about selling the house, but I thought it might take a month, not 1 day! I also thought we would be in Texas thru March probably April…really in no hurry to get back to Kansas in the middle of winter. Well, not only did the house sell in 1 day, we had to be out in 5 1/2 weeks!!!
So 4 short days after getting the offer on our house, we were in the car headed up to Kansas to find a new home.
A few times when looking at weather forecasts, Adam and I wonder…what are we thinking!?
This was the temperature when we left for Kansas, when we arrived it was 27. Boo.
After a day of looking, we found our new home! Obviously it has a bit of work left to be done :). It was at the point in construction that we got to pick out all the finishing touches -flooring, appliances, countertops, tile, plumbing, lighting - for it. We did it all in a matter of a few hours and honestly just have our fingers crossed that it all comes together.
This is the view from the kitchen.
And this is where we were officially sold on the house. A few houses we looked at were great but the yard, or lack there of, ruined it. The mud is our yard the green/brown behind it is greenspace that won't be built on.
Three days later we were back home and this was in the yard shortly after.
We have FaceTimed and received lots of pics from family on progress of the house. Of course the foot of snow Overland Park just got is putting the exterior progress of the house on hold for a bit.
A week later my wonderful mom and sister came down to help me pack and stay while Adam was gone all week. We were wrapping and packing up anything not nailed down ;).
This dining room was empty when they arrived and this was it after they left. They were a humungous help! We packed up everything that wasn't being used on a daily basis.
We are officially less than 2 weeks from move date! More updates to come!
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