"for sale"...almost!!!

it is official! we've signed the paperwork on our current home to get it on the market. we had a stager come out and take a look at the house and gave us a few suggestions on what to change/update, buy, etc. on my shopping list, i need to purchase a few candles to make our master bath feel like a "spa". and that's about it! i was pleasantly surprised with how our house "showed" to the stager. she changed the direction of the kitchen table, moved a chair in the living room and that was it!
she said that our house was an easy appointment for her.

this past weekend, we did some minor repair work on the house. kurt's parents, tom and joan, came over and helped us a ton! they also took a TON of plastic storage containers home with them, full of stuff! 10 to be exact, were filled to the brim.

this coming weekend, we need to paint the trim around the floors and clean, clean, clean!!! we also will be working out in the yard and landscaping to make the outside look just as good as the inside. 

once our weekend chores are finished, then a professional photographer will come out and take pictures. from there, it will be a day or so and the listing will be put online. i'll post it once it is!  yeah!!

p.s. for an update on our new house, we had a walk through with our builder on saturday. we made a couple of minor changes, pocket doors to regular doors and extended two walls in the dining room to incorporate a china cabinet.  we found that our bathtubs are in place in both bathrooms on the 2nd floor. the one in our basement would be in place in the next couple of days. our builder said that our windows should be going in in the next couple of days. kurt ran past there on his way back to work today and said they were prepping the openings to put the windows in. then next goes the roof and then they will start bricking the exterior!! woohoo!! pictures to come later once we have the windows in!! oh and i've received a call from the place where we will pick out our flooring and plan to make an appointment with them later this week. we also have our cabinet guy working on our kitchen layout!!