Happy Sunday

Well, this is the first weekend in a long, long time that Rob and I have not been frantically working on wedding or house improvement projects. In fact, the biggest obstactles we encountered was to leave our home for 2 hr on saturday and 2 hr on sunday for showings and an open house. Good news thus far, we have three very interested parties, one of which may make an offer later today (according to an email from our agent). We're so pleased that there has been lots of interest in our first two weeks on the market but still are trying not to get too anxious as we know that anything could happen to delay this process or they may change their minds all together. I keep reminding myself to be patient and that it will all work out when it is supposed to. Now Rob and I have been running the crazy ideas through our head if, 'hey, you just got an offer you accepted, now get out of your home' ...what are we going to do? Scary thought that we'd have to make so big time decisions fast but we're definitely welcoming the next chapter and can't wait for it to start!
Onto a lighter note, a different agent voluntered to do our open house today. He pulled up quickly, jumped out of his vehicle in sport pants, a tshirt and what looked like cleats. He then proceded to tie balloons to a sign then disrobe in the middle of the street to change into his professional attire. Just when we thought the agents running the show couldn't get any stranger, we witness this first hand. Oh well, it will all be worth it in the end.

Well, that is a wrap from sunny Austin, Tx. We actually had to turn on the air conditioner today for the open house because it is getting rather toasty outside. Hope the weather gets nice soon for all our family & friends back home.

Love,
Rob, Ash & Porter

I think we're back in Kansas Toto!

A little over a week ago, we made a much anticipated trip back home to visit our families and friends! As mentioned in the previous posts, Rob and I have been in the process of getting our home ready to put on the market, well it finally happened. We spent most of last week+ getting as many projects as we could before we headed home. We met with Mike, our agent, and Rob's signed the papers to get the MLS for the house started Tuesday Feb 8th. Rob and I decided to take a moment to further develop our 'religious' sides Wednesday evening before leaving town and buried a statue of St Joseph which is supposed to help sell our home more quickly!

The next day we headed out of the state to adventure into the artic known as Kansas. We were so fortunate the roads were minimally icy and we had no difficulty on the road. I decided to try out my christmas gift from Robby, it really does make snoozing in the car much more comfortable.

All passengers were pretty happy campers for the duration of this trip, okay well Rob doesn't look quite as happy about driving as Porter & I are.

Friday evening, February 11th my sister hosted an amazing bachelorette party for me. For anyone that knows me, I love many things...namely 80's parties, dancing, 80's music and margaritas.

I was fortunate to have all these things and to celebrate with my family & friends. Everyone participated in the attire and it was so much fun seeing what people came up with. We also took a party bus around KC where we ventured to a pole dancing class. Thank goodness I don't have those photos in hand yet as I do recall there were a few embarrasing moments.

So in reflecting in my experience at Pole works I can now safely say the following:
1. I need to keep my job as a physical therapist because I wouldn't survive dancing on the pole

2. Cut those ladies some slack because it is a whole heck of a lot harder than it looks. I believe I was experiencing DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness) for the following three days, day two I could hardly move my arms.

Saturday came and I somehow wasn't feeling too badly! I was blessed to have another great friend host a bridal shower. Later that evening we got to celebrate at Nate & Staci's home for Chase's second birthday. It was fun to see how excited he was opening all of his gifts. We got Chase a little Elmo that sings and danced to the hoky poky and Chase was so stinkin cute dancing around.

All in all, it was a fabulous trip home and continues to solidify our desires to get closer to home as soon as possible!!!

Well that is a wrap from Austin!

Love,
Rob, Ash, & Porter

Snow Days!

Well it happened once again...mass chaos arrived in Austin, Tx last friday. With all the anticipation and crossing of fingers, we managed to get a whopping 1-2" dusting in the city. Rob was fortunate enough to get a day off from work but I had to make the trip in to the hospital. I did manage to snap a couple of quick pictures in the dark that morning, sadly enough I didn't get to enjoy the snow with the boys because it had all melted by 10 am.  And yes, it was almost 75 degrees the following two days, sometimes I feel like we never left Kansas!

During the afternoon of Robby's snow day, I had him get busy working on repainting the master bathroom. This is the beginning of priming....

Yum...beer!
Of course everyone knows drinking beer makes priming much more tolerable. The finished product to come!

My snow day came the following monday. For some reason our patient census has been rather low at work the past week so I volunteered to go home and have a "snow day." I was able to get so much accomplished in terms of cleaning, packing and organizing. Can't wait to update everyone on our home changes. This past weekend we were also able to tackle the outdoor project of limb trimming so you can see our home from the road once again.

Of course we use our pick up truck as added height to reach those pesky branches the ladder can't reach



After two and a half hours our teamwork paid off and we were able to bundle up all the sticks for trash pick up

The final product!!! Wow, you can see our windows and the garage from the street. Sorry for the angle, the sun was going down and it was so bright!

Well that is a wrap for now, we'll keep you updated as we make more progress on our home!!!

Love,
Rob, Ash & Porter