Our first trip to Colorado

It is Thursday and we are getting ready for our first trip out to Denver. We have a busy week planned. We will leave Saturday and arrive Sunday. Sunday we hope to get familiar with the area and go to see our lot as well as the model of our home. Monday we will have an appointment with our builder and sign a lease for an apartment. Our plan is to live bare bones in this apartment to save money on moving twice. We will bring a few things with us on our trip that are essential, ie. TV, espresso machine, coffee maker, laptop, and the ipod clock radio. The rest we will buy when we get there or do without. Keith is working Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Friday we have another appointment with our builder and then we will be off to Keystone, CO for Keith's company picnic/BBQ. We will stay overnight in Keystone and leave there sometime Saturday to head for home. We plan to be home Sunday afternoon and Keith will work his last week here in CA before flying out on Sunday, August 12th to officially start in his new position.
As far as our home here goes we are on the market 5 days with no showings. Some pictures were posted on the MLS this morning so this may help. We are still waiting for the "virtual tour" photographers to come out to take their pix with the wide angle lens which helps show whole rooms but at least people know the home is not trashed. Here is a link to the mls -http://www.tarbell.com/f-property-search.html listing # I07107114.

As a side note I would like to ask my friends and family to pray for two special people. The first is for Max Kakuk who is 8 months old and having surgery in a few weeks on his brain/skull. His skull fused in utero and they have to go in and make some more room. He has a twin sister Tilly who I am sure is going to miss her brother while he is in the hospital. So please pray for this family and the surgeons and staff at the hospital. The second is an old friend of ours from the Arrowhead Pond (Honda Center) Mike O'Donnell. He is fighting a very hard fight with cancer right now and it is preventing him from eating or drinking and causing him to feel very sick. He is tired and has been fighting a long time but is still wanting to fight this fight. Please pray for complete healing as well as the strength and courage he and his family needs.
Thanks to all of you! -jane

We are on the market

Well... we have finally listed our home on the market. Today is day 1. It seems the more we work on this home the more there is to be done. Our agent is coming on Tuesday to take pictures and once the pictures are online I will try to include a link to the web page. We hope and are priced for a quick sale. We will be driving to Colorado next Saturday for a weeks trip but in mid-August Keith will be there full time and so we will start renting an apartment at that time. We figure the girls and I will go out around the beginning of September and then the girls and I at least will come back one more time to supervise the packing as all of our things will go to storage until we are able to move in to our home. That will hopefully be mid to end November.
The girls and I just finished a week of VBS and we are all wiped out. Keith rebuilt our deck this week and just finished painting it tonight. That's about it for now. -jane

WE HAVE A START DATE

Well we finally have some new information. I looks like Keith will be starting in Denver on July 31st. He is going to recieve a loner car for August until his company truck comes in so we do not have to worry about driving his car out to Denver. I am hoping that Keith will take a few days off before he starts and then the girls and I can take him out there. We have some housing details we need to take care of together for our new home.
This week we need to find an apartment to rent on a short term lease. It looks like we are closing on our new home in November but we have alot to do here in CA before we can go and live with Keith in Denver. Our home is still at least a week away from listing. But little by little things are coming along. Only a few more projects and a good amount of cleaning and yard work and we will be ready. This is really starting to sink in now. Well off to cross some chores off the list. -jane