March, Part 2: House Preparations

Selling a house is super expensive and super stressful. I hope I never have to do it again! Looking back on it (since I am, of course, playing blog catch up), I don't know how I got it all done and accomplished everything that I did...and even more than that, I am just so glad it is over!

Above: We took a TON of stuff and put it into a storage unit to make our closets look less crowded and more spacious. I also did a ton of organizing and cleaning on top of that. Moving is so much work!

Above: This might look bad to you, but trust me, it is the best our laundry room has looked in four years. We had those shelves packed full of papers and totes, etc. It was a wreck. I wish I had gotten this de-cluttered sooner...

Above: My good friend, Nicole, came and staged our house for us and gave us pointers as to what should go where. I took these pictures right after she left so that I could remember where everything should go (we were still in the process of painting, which is why the outlet covers are missing).

Above: Nicole is an inspiration when it comes to the use of space. We had a completely different setup here, but this looked so great. I can't believe we didn't think of it ourselves and do it sooner.

Above: Another instance where Nicole made us smack our foreheads in disbelief that we hadn't thought of this sooner. We had not had this room set up this way and now I can't see it any other way. It looked awesome like this.

Above: This is another example of finally figuring out how to use a space in our house successfully...too little, too late. Our landing was pretty much just a random space. We had a desk up there for awhile, empty space, etc. When my sister-in-law, Angie, gave us her couches, we put those in our family room and brought these couches upstairs. It was soooo wonderful to have those couches up there. We put our Xbox up there and it became such a fun game, movie, and hang out area. Oh, how I wish we had done that sooner!

Above: I also finally put some blinds up. We had meant to put blinds in that window for four years. It cost all of $40 and maybe an hour of my time.

Above: We went shopping at RC Willey to check out couches and office furniture for our new house. The boys thought that was pretty fun. They loved sitting in all of the chairs and they wanted to buy EVERYTHING. :) Ha ha!

So, that's what I did to prep our house to put it up for sale in March. Lots more work still to come though!

March, Part 1: March Adventures

March was a good month, but a busy one. I was busy doing a lot of prep to get the house ready to sell, taking care of my sweet baby Dan, celebrating two holidays (St. Patrick's Day and Easter), and a bunch of other stuff to boot.

Above: Since I was in the Relief Society presidency, I was also in charge of the RS activities. For March, we had a RS birthday party and I got to bring home some of the balloons. They lasted a surprisingly long time and the boys had a super fun time with them while they lasted.

Above: Can you spot the hidden Johnny in this picture?

Above: Here's a close up to give you a better hint. Johnny is my sweet ninja. He loves to hide.

Above: Dan thought these balloons were beyond cool.

Above: One warm morning, we got to have a surprise little visitor.

Above: One of the things I will miss about Suncrest is the nature and wildlife up here. I won't miss how long spring is in coming and how late it is every year, but I will miss things like this.

Above: "Dad, it's no big deal. I'm just eating." Dan has really enjoyed figuring out how to eat! He loves Tummy Yummies and Yogurt Melts.

Above: We had a stake road show that we participated in. It was a take-off on Saturday's Warriors with Star Wars. I got to be the angel and sing at the beginning. Jeremiah and Peter were Jedi Knights. Johnny perfected his ninja skills by crawling around backstage. Daniel was a good boy and sat on my good friend, Meri's, lap until I was done with my angel part.

Above: Everyone had a blast, and our skit was totally the best one! :)

Above: Peter finally lost his very first tooth this month! Dad was out of town and luckily, I had some extra cash on hand.

Above: It's such a little tooth!

Above: I love this handsome guy of mine.

Above: Aunt Theresa came to town and we all got together at Thanksgiving Point and had a yummy meal and then went to the dinosaur museum and The Museum of Natural Curiosity.

Above: Aunt Theresa got the kids toys, of course, and Daniel was no exception! It took awhile for Daniel to warm up to this, but once he figured it out, he LOVED it.

Above: You may get sweet signs of spring in Suncrest (like a redbreasted robin), but winter doesn't like to give up that easily and always has a few storms left up its sleeve. This was a mild one. We got a few snow storms as we were trying to show our house. That complicated things a little, but luckily, in the long run, our house still sold.

Above: "Wait, this isn't our car. What's going on here?" Dan and I are sitting in the back seat of our realtor's car (Ashley Farmer) while he drives us around from house to house. Dan was a good sport (Johnny a little less so). House hunting was not easy! It is actually quite exhausting!

Above: Ahhh, enjoying some nice mellow time.

Above: Dan was really patient with me while I was preparing our house. He put off crawling and rolling for my sake while I was packing boxes and making trips to the storage unit. What a sweet, accommodating little guy.

Above: Peter showing off his sweet one-tooth-lighter grin.

Above: What a handsome guy.

Above: Here's Johnny playing with kinetic sand or something like that. Hmmm. Why isn't he at the table? I guess I wasn't paying close enough attention.

Above: I sure have handsome, sweet boys.

Above: We were comparing eye colors. Dan is holding strong with hazel eyes. I don't think they are going to change to brown, though I thought they would for awhile. I think hazel eyes are here to stay!

Above: Johnny has his beautiful blue eyes with one streak of gold in his left eye.

Above: That streak of gold is hard to capture in a picture, but it is so cool looking.

Above: Here's my sweet Pete and his brown eyes (the only one to inherit my brown eyes).

Above: Snuggle time with this sweet chubby guy is the best thing ever. Also, you can tell it is Sunday again because my hair and makeup are done. :)

Read the next posts to see more of our March 2016 adventures!