God Made Dirt and Dirt don't Hurt!

We had such a great weekend at the property! I started mowing with our push mower and then the amazing neighbor rode over on this beauty and made my life so much easier!

We also had 20 yards of dirt delivered and the girls had a ball digging and crushing rocks with a hammer. They found a few fossils and other treasures! Hours of fun for all!

After church daddy had to work so we headed to target to spend some birthday money and get some hot chocolates and my 1st Pumpkin Spiced Latte- where have you been all of my life! Yum!

We then headed to the library to finish off this beautiful weekend!

Feeling blessed! 

House Tour

Here is our Reno project! It is not our yet, but hopefully soon. I keep calling the Sheriff's office and they keep telling me I have to wait! Geesh, we are just too excited!

 You can say it, we are NUTS!

But it is on 5 acres and it has a pretty big floor plan of 2500sf. which we are hoping to add another 750sf to. Every single inch needs to be touched and then maybe re-touched again! The smell, is awful, but nothing a few hundred gallons of Kilz will cure!

Couldn't be happier to be on this adventure with my family! Stay tuned, I will be documenting all of the updates here! http://youtu.be/sGKsQg6otW0

 

Clean Up While We Wait!

Waiting is so frustrating! We have had several contractors, HVAC, septic, electric and plumbing people out to the house to give us quotes. Of course it takes some time, and with the holiday weekend, that takes a bit longer..... So we are waiting, waiting to see what changes, we can afford, how much the mandatory fixes will cost, HVAC, water, plumbing , and Septic and if this uninhabitable house can be our forever home!

So today, we enlisted the help of some dear friends to mow or Brush hog, weed eat and just plain rip out a few years of overgrown madness! I can't tell you how much anxiety the overgrown madness gives me every time we pull up the driveway. Plus our house had some squatters living in it, so when we bought the house, we inherited all of their garbage, a lot of garbage! I pray for people every night who are facing hard times, but when they leave garbage in my house, that is frustrating and gross! I know it doesn't look like a pristine yard text, but it is getting closer! Baby steps!

They mowed a lot of grass!

 

 

Tractors are the best tools!

Squatter garbage clean up!

This little girl wanted to help us instead of going to the pool with her sisters!

I ordered this print a while ago and it's 2 friends came in the mail today! They will be amazing in our new home, but it looks pretty great here for now! www.dearlillie.blogspot.com

Love this site and blog! 

What a week!

In a matter of 4 days:
#1: Our youngest daughter went to kindergarten
#2: I started back to work after 9 years of being a stay at home mom, as a Realtor
#3: We decided to go to a Sheriff's Sale and buy our "Forever Home"

To say I felt every emotion you could possibly feel in a short amount of time is an understatement! Our Forever Home is just shy of a dump with 5 beautiful acres. Every inch needs to be remodeled and we are jumping into this in full force! Well as soon as the title transfers. Technically, we don't own it quite yet!

In this blog I hope to give you a little insight into our life as Realtors, parents and the owners of a huge fixer upper project!

When my husband Jason and I went on our first date 12 years ago, we went to a restaurant that had this quote written on the wall. It touched us then and we wrote it on a $1 bill. We have lived by this motto for 12 years! This means more now than ever! Thanks Teddy Roosevelt

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.