Last Sunday after B's party, I decided it was time to clean out his old toys to make room for all his new gifts. We had the bounce house until Monday, so my parents took B for the day while Ryan and I cleaned and organized the entire house. It was a busy, exhausting day, but it was so nice to get done!
That day we also made the decision to put our house on the market with a realtor. We just haven't had any luck For Sale by Owner and the house was now in great shape! Well, long story short we met with a realtor on Tuesday who we absolutely LOVE and we are now in the processing of getting the house all ready to put on the market. She said our house looked great but there were just a few things she would suggest for us to do to make it sell much quicker.
We have known for quite awhile that we need to replace our roof, but we haven't had any problems with it, so we have put it off in order to save that money. Well, there are already three layers on the roof and if a potential buyer tries to get insured, no insurance company with insure them. So we decided to save us the hassle of trying to get around this, and hopefully recouping the money spent in the price we sell the house for, we would go ahead and replace the roof. Last week was spent setting up estimates and trying to get a good price. We will hopefully be getting a new roof tomorrow if everything goes as planned!
We were also considering painting the exterior of our house. We have vinyl siding that is light blue and we had dark blue shutters on top of that. We had never really paid much attention, but the realtor pointed out that this made the house look even more blue than it was. So this past weekend we painted the shutters and the front door to see if that would be enough of a change before painting the whole house. I think it looks much better and hopefully will be enough to get it sold! We also have to replace our front window, which should be done on Friday.
Other than that, I have just been trying to clear out as much as possible. Now the house just needs another good cleaning. This past weekend is really a blur to me. We went non-stop all weekend with projects around the house and by the beginning of next week hope to have the house on the market!!
Also, last Wednesday Brennen had his 2 year checkup. Everything looked great and he jumped up to the 10th percentile for weight at 24.5 lbs and 25th percentile for height at 33.5 inches. He had to get one last shot and now he is done until he is 5. Yay! This shot really got to him and luckily I had Thursday off because he was up at 5:30am. He then napped from 10am-12pm and again from 4pm-6pm when he spiked a 101 fever. Poor baby was wiped out. Luckily, I gave him some medicine after his second nap and the fever broke and he was able to play outside and was tired and ready for bed by 9pm. We have been so lucky that Brennen has been such a healthy boy! It is so hard to see your baby not feeling well :( I was so glad he was back to his normal self by Friday afternoon!
Here are a few pictures from the past week and weekend.
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| Grandma bought him a plasma car! |
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| Poor boy not feeling too well after his shots :( |
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| Daddy was painting, so B wanted to paint too |
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| Playing with Daddy in his new toy from Auntie Kay! (This is why we need a new house...it takes up the whole living room!) |
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| Making cookies with his play-doh maker! |
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| Landon taking B for a ride :) |
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| Just watching some TV...silly boy! |
Hopefully we will have some good news in the next few weeks and we can look forward to starting a new chapter for our family!
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