MPA Trip to Apopka High School

Alyssa's chorus traveled to the MPA (music performance accessments) testing today and earned a Superior rating.  This is a video of their middle school MPA selection.  Their director is fabulous and Alyssa has had a great year learning to pronounce all kinds of languages.  Their first selection today was in German.  I'm glad I was able to go along as a chaperone.

The Seller Picked OUR Offer!!!!

I can't tell you how excited we are!  This morning our realtor will send over the contract with the changes that they made as well as a copy of the appraisal and the home inspection that was completed for the last buyer.  Then as soon as Troy signs the papers, we will be under contract :)

House Hunting Part 2

Our Realtor has let us know that the banks on the first house aren't even working to come to an agreement, so we started looking around for other options.  I am really excited about what we found.

It is about 3 miles further from Troy's office than our current house, but the ward and schools will still be the same and all of the kids will be bused to school.  This house fits our family's long term needs better than the first one.  The sellers have 2 other offers that they are considering...  hopefully they make the right choice :)  I had a tough time sleeping last night because I was so excited.  Everyone is anxious to hear...  It is more $/SF than the other houses we have considered, but includes a long lap pool and screened enclosure as well as 1.24 acres of land at the end of a cul-de-sac in a beautiful neighborhood.  

There is only one step into the house!  

It will be a great house for years to come!  It is almost 2900 SF with 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.  It is set up in a U shape with the 2nd master on the left side with the laundry room and garage and the main master on the right with 2 other bedrooms and an additional bath.  You can see from the front door straight through the living room out to the pool.  All of the common area has hardwood flooring - yay!

Wood burning fireplace in Living Room

The main area of the home is formed in a circle around the kitchen.

It has 2 master bedrooms, so the girls will get one and they are really excited!

Main master bedroom with bath to the right, hall to the left and pool area ahead

Master Bathroom

2nd Master with laundry room across the hall
All of the bedrooms have walk-in closets :) 

2nd Master Bath/Pool Bath

2nd Master Bath other half with door out to pool

The kitchen has high quality appliances and granite countertops and back splashes.  

The kids are all hoping we get the house because they fell in love with it too!  The pool is heated by solar panels and the house has a well, so our utility bills will be low.

The wall by the door to the 2nd master bath is plumbed for a sink.  There's a shower around the corner from that.

They neighborhood HOA fee is small and includes mosquito abatement and a playground with a volleyball court.

Doug's Mission Call

Doug recieved his mission call on Wednesday and he is going to be serving in the Santiago North area of Chile!  He'll be going into the MTC on June 29th :)

Crazy Solo Utah Trip

Last Wednesday I headed out for Utah to give a termination of lease notice to our current tenants in SLC and to sign a contract with our new ones. 

The first few days went smoothly and I was able to enjoy time with Mom, Janell, Tat, Andrew, Cami, Troy, and their kids.  We had a picnic in Janell's new basement with snickerdoodles baked in the new oven.  We enjoyed dinner at Guru's and our tour of the Bloch exhibit at the BYU Museum of Art.  We also had a chance to go to Janell's women's conference at her stake and I LOVED the classes.  I'll put some of my notes in another day.  I think I needed the encouragement for the days ahead...

Saturday night mom broke her foot 2 hours before heading to the airport to fly home.  We weren't sure it was broken, but we had her take a wheelchair through the airport.  We felt awful leaving her there all by herself.  Later Janell and I had a yummy dinner and shopped for some sequin clothes for Kate.  A sweet lady gave us her coupon since she wouldn't use it and I saved 40% off my bill :)

Sunday I went to our Lindon ward and enjoyed seeing some of my friends.

Since Monday, I have been completely swamped trying to get our SLC house cleaned and transferred to our new tenants and being blindsided by other blessings (challenges!).  The house was a mess with gum on the walls, ashes in the fireplace, 3 broken doorknobs (huh?), a pool having destroyed the lawn in the backyard, a dirty fridge, dirty windows...  I could keep going!  Thankfully Maria, Janell, Cami, Samara, and Spencer were able to come help me clean.  It looked much better when I left Monday night and my new tenants started moving in :)

Meanwhile, I got a call Sunday night that I could come pick up the keys from our tenant in Provo because he had moved out.  I'm just thankful I was already here and could take care of it.  I listed it on KSL.com on Monday and had prospective tenants by Tuesday afternoon.  I also was able to spend all of Tuesday cleaning the apartment :(  I had to scrub floors, walls, cabinets, the bathtub, sweep the carport, and clean windows and blinds, and vacuum.  I really need some time to recover.  You can guess that I'm super excited thatToday we signed the contract and I handed over the keys. 

Since I didn't have enough to worry about, our water softener decided to call it quits while sabatoging the water lines to the toilets Monday night :(  We couldn't get a plumber to come Tuesday, so finally this morning one came to fix the toilets.  Now I'm just waiting on another plumber to fix the water softener.

Visiting with my friend Stephenie helped keep me sane this week!  I loved the chance to catch up.