Mini-update

Sorry I've been MIA lately! We visited Will's sister Tiffany and her family over Easter, and Will had a job interview with an engineering company there in Littleton, CO. The first thing they said to Will when he applied was "Oh, thanks for your interest, we're not hiring right now though," and that was that. Until about two hours later when they said "Hey, we want a phone interview with you," so he had a phone interview. And then they said "We want to pay for you and your family to come over here and check out the area and company and get to know you a little bit." SO. We did that over Easter (nothing better than a paid vacation!) and had a wonderful time.

As it turns out, he got a job! I guess even though they weren't hiring, they liked him a lot and thought he would be a great addition to the company. They were, however, worried about ME. Apparently they've had a few problems with wives of engineers moving from Utah and changing their mind at the last minute. Like, two days before their husbands were supposed to start, that sort of thing. I wished I could tell them myself that I am not the least bit attached to Utah, and in fact promised myself I would stay there for a year and then leave.

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, we're SUPER EXCITED!! Both of us want out of Utah. It's fine, but not forever. When we were first married and talking about areas we would want to end up, we said "Anywhere in the West, except for California and Salt Lake City." We really have nothing against Salt Lake, we just...didn't want to live there! And California is a little too expensive. Or maybe a lot too expensive.

We've been ridiculously busy getting the house ready for sale. Of course we could just put it up as is and someone would no doubt buy it (there are always investors around here looking for houses) for a decent amount of money. However, we figure we'll try to get as much done as we can and make the money for ourselves. :) We had a realtor over a couple of weeks ago and that was very encouraging for us because he gave us a number we were not expecting. It was quite a bit higher than we were even hoping for. We already have a lot of projects done, but still so much to go. We've been working on it non-stop for 2 1/2 weeks and have about 3 weeks go to till the day we want it up on the market. I think we're doing alright. So far we have:

Torn out all the marble flooring (YAY!!!)
Replaced the kitchen, entryway and basement bathroom floors with new tile
Put drywall in the basement bathroom
Tiled the shower in the basement
Replaced the front door
Painted all the cabinets, we just need to put them back up (that's probably going to be the hard part)
Painted the entire basement except for the laundry room. We still need to do some touching up and fixing up ceilings, but it's not too bad.

We've got a concrete company coming to fix our broken out driveway approach (right this minute, actually), carpet is scheduled to be installed in the basement and bedrooms next week, I've got a couple of appointments for quotes for removing the old nasty dead bush out front, and two new windows are being installed in the basement on Tuesday.

That's why I haven't blogged. And I'm so sorry there are no pictures yet. Be patient and you will be blown away!