House for Sale?

SO, we are probably moving and selling our house as early as February 1st, 2012. It is very nerve racking and sad to leave our beautiful home. It goes on the market next week after Christmas. Ben was promoted / transferred to Midland, Texas.

(as long as Ben's contract/promotion letter arrives to be signed)

Some houses in this area sell in as soon as a week. (highly desired location) But it could take longer in which case I don't know what I'm going to do. We have a few options.

Option A: Ben starts work Feb 1st as they would like and Evelyn, Hank and I stay with the house. (keep it clean for showings BOOO!)
Option B: We move all our stuff in storage, drop Hank off in Bertram and get temporary housing until we find a new house and sell ours. Get to Midland by Feb 1st and wait up to 60 days. After 60 days Ben's company will buy our house.
Option C: Ben delays his start date in Midland to stay with me and the house.  (my preferred choice, but not the company)

I knew this day would come, however West Texas is a shock.  I JUST FINISHED MY LIVING ROOM PROJECT! I have spent a few months getting the front living room just right, and planing her playroom/classroom in the back. I am falling more and more in love with my little house. So even with the knowledge that oil industries typically move their employees I am still in shock.

Here are our house for sale pictures.

FRONT OF HOUSE:

BACK YARD, GARAGE AND DECK

KITCHEN

DINING AREAS

LIVING ROOM

 My Christmas ladder. Thank you to everyone for all the beautiful cards!!! And my angles pictures on the wall :)

BATHROOM

MASTER BEDROOM

 

BEDROOM 2

BEDROOM 3

DEN / SUN ROOM

Taking pictures of every room spotless is really really hard. Keeping it clean enough for showings will be even harder. Please pray that a family will love this house as much as we have. And pray they fall in love with it quick. It needs somebody to love it because I sure am going to miss our first house. I know God has a plan, and that our new house will be just as great, but it is just really sad to leave the house where our family started.

Baby's first Chrismas

Evelyn's first Christmas photo shoot.



 and tomorrow me, her mostly crazy mom will do her 4 month photo shoot.

Family update

It has been way to long since my last blog. I don't really know where to begin.

Thanksgiving

    Our family traveled to Texas for this holiday. It is usually one of my favorites, but it was kinda tough not being able to see my parents. We saw a lot of family, but I am really missing my own. We spent the first night with Ben's parents. The drive to Texas is a little to long for miss Evelyn. She does really well considering it is a 7 hour trip with her. She gets fussy after three hours. Even after I feed her, she does NOT want to get back in the car seat. I don't blame her, I didn't want to either. Then when we get there, her sleep schedule was a wreck.

     Our visits with everyone were really enjoyable. I didn't get many pictures.

Emma, Evelyn's cousin had her first birthday while we were there.

We were also able to visit with Mark and Kendall before heading down to my aunts for our Friday Thanksgiving.

After Friday, our plan was to attend Hayes Carl concert in Gruene,TX and leave baby with Grandparents. Evelyn had other plans. She wasn't taking a bottle well, and the traveling really messed up her sleep. I envisioned hours and hours and hours of screaming so I stayed behind with her. Ben and I did however have some time to walk around and shop before Evelyn and I headed back for the night.

The rest of the Thanksgiving vacation was very relaxing. It was definitely nice to not have to rush home. Ben didn't return to work until Wednesday.

Living Room Update
    We have been working on our living room really since we bought the house. I have been trying to find inspirations and money to get it done. I finally decided we needed to move our family room out of the sun room as it is not climate controlled. It is way to hot in the summer, and cold in the winter nights. So we are turning it into a playroom. It took us a while to pick paint colors. This first picture shows the many choices we painted swatches of. Then the final colors. Epic and Dakota Trail. Two toned and I think its great.

I ordered my furniture on October 21st, yes OCTOBER. It arrived today. Dec 10. Well at least some of it did. The couch is still being hand sewn by children I'm sure. Just joking. I don't know why it was delayed, but the furniture store said it would be another couple of weeks. My curtains come in hopefully Monday, so I'll post pics of that then. I love the color and feel of it the chaise. I'm a little bummed it doesn't hide the door more. I'm planing on putting something between the chaise and that wall anyway. Ben got his lazy boy in a while back. Hank above is enjoying the box. And here is some pictures of the new furniture.

 So there will be a couch attached to the chaise in the future. Today I got busy on my Christmas decorations and I am loving it.

Ben made this ladder for me. I'm going to spray paint it sparkly red and then hang Christmas cards and decor from it. Idea from http://www.pintrest.com/.

Thanks. Merry Christmas.