Happy big number 5 Ben! Ben’s birthday was today and he is SO excited to be 5! We’re not quite sure why, other than the fact that 5 is older than 4. 🙂 What a crazy little boy!
He has a big party coming up that his sisters will be decorating for so he can’t wait for that!
Happy Birthday big guy!
Kirstyn participated in the District 204 Solo and Ensemble Festival today with a group of her friends. They sang beautifully and got the highest marks from the judge. Before the competition, they all went out and bought matching outfits (which they probably had just as much fun doing as they did singing). 🙂 They were really happy.
We told the chorus director the news about the sale and she was even more sad. She really wanted Kirstyn to participate in the school musical which she won’t be able to do because we will be gone by then. 🙁
After only 10 days and about 15 showings, our house sold! We are SO excited we can barely see straight! It was crazy… We had competing offers, one even at list! The one at list was not a very strong financial situation and the agent had pulled out on our agent twice in the past. That said, Chris negotiated wonderfully! Initially the offer came in at $40,000 under list which was offensive! 🙁 Chris went to work and with the competing offer at list, drove the buyers up to just $3000 under list and a closing date of the 10th of April! We are SO happy and can’t wait to get the moving process started. WAHOO!!!
It is a bittersweet moment however. To see a sold sign in our front yard after living 18 years in Illinois is sad, but we know that this is the right thing to do. Thanks to our agent, Chris Macak, for all his hard work on our behalf!
Zach played well in his game today. He got a couple of rebounds and got the Board Beast award! He was SO excited!
As usual, his team won again! They really do have a great team and it’s amazing how little guys this age can play so well.
Kirstyn made the Still Middle School Basketball Team again this year!!! We hope she’ll be able to finish out the season before we move. She was SO excited when she found out and couldn’t wait to get out on the court! Their first game today was against Scullen, and they did pretty well. They didn’t win, but they had a great time! Given some time, Kirstyn will be right back up where she left off last year. It helped that she played recreation ball in the off-season.
She’s the tallest on the team and will be playing center again this year. She’s learning to be more aggressive and actually went up and got fouled today and got to go to the line! She also made one of her shots!
Tonight was Gombert’s Open House as well. This will be the last Open House we go to at Gombert. It feels really weird as we have been going to Open Houses there for the last 15 years! Crazy! Zach was very excited for us to come.
We also had our ARTspeaks meeting tonight as well. The group was very bummed when we told them that we were moving and wouldn’t be part of the group anymore. 🙁
Tonight, Kirstyn had a wonderful Band and Chorus Concert at Still. She did a great job (as usual). This could be her last concert at the school and she was kind-of sad, but is excited to move. The band and chorus teachers are not too happy about that, but she’s in 8th grade and will be moving on anyway. 🙂
Way to go Kirstyn. You sound great! We know you’ll be great wherever we move to and be a rock star!
Our house went on the Market today! We have been working hard and getting everything fixed up (wallboard, etc.), re-carpeted, dusted, vacuumed and ready to go! Our agent came over and took all the pictures and we listed!
We have a great brochure to help sell the home and we are praying that we get a lot of showings and the home sells quickly. We just have to figure out now when we want to go to the Denver area to look at homes. It will probably happen over Spring Break (depending on how fast we get a contract on our house here).
We’re so excited! This has been a hard decision and it’s taken us almost 5 years to really make up our minds. Now is the time and we know it. 🙂
