Since I have a few minutes

Wow it has been a very long time since I have posted the happenings in our neck of the woods.

I am sitting at the office waiting for some clients to come in and sign a purchase contract and the boys are at home doing laundry and making dinner, so I am taking advantage of the peace and quiet to update the eager world on the happenings of our lives.

We will start with the cats. They are crazy teenagers right now, causing mischief and distruction daily. Steven taught one of them to play catch and it is very intertaining to watch and she will include everyone in the game. Good thing I gave mom a heads up when she and dad came to visit the last two weeks. They are little sweeties though and they add alot to the family. Steven carts them around all over the place and they put up with it so all is good.

Steven has officially completed the 2nd grade and is a little apprehensive about starting 3rd grade in a new school. One good thing is that we met a new family in the neighborhood and both of the children will be attending the same school. The kids have hit it off real well and Steven will be having his new friend over on Saturday for a sleep over. I see pizza, popcorn, candy, and movies in our future. Wooohooo.

Work has been keeping us busy, we sold two homes last week and if all goes well the offer I am getting signed tonight will be accepted by Monday. Our goal is to close 3 escrows each month. Not an easy task I tell ya. One of the homes we sold last week will close in December so I am excited that one is down for that month. We have worked with some really great people and have built wonderful friendships. My Christmas Card List is growing by leaps and bounds.

The weather has been on the hot side so far this month. We have been hovering during the day between 95-104 degrees. We have the big Tulare County Association of Realtors Picnic tomorrow evening and I am really looking forward to it. Last year it was not as hot as it is now, but man it was fun. All you can eat food, sno-cones, cotton candy, soda, and popcorn. They also have lots of blow up stuff and water contraptions for the kids. hmmmm I must be getting hungry cause I really focused on the food didn't I?

Mom and Dad were here for a few weeks and it was great !! We got to see dad on his birthday and Father's Day. Steven spent a week with mom and dad at the coast and had a great time. He can't wait until August so he can spend more time with them.

My clients just pulled into the parking lot so .........back to work I go.

Million Dollar Home Anyone?

I must say again, I Love Keller Williams. We have been learning and growing like crazy people. They are so happy with our eagerness to learn and practice what we learn, that we have been asked to sit a Million Dollar open house. What's so cool about this you ask?....Well the developer is building 32 Million Dollar + homes in the gated community and we can sell any/or all of them. What else is cool you ask....well let me just tell you...... Say someone comes in to check out the home and they then realize that it a little out of their financial comfort zone (duh) then we can continue our relationship with the client and sell them any home we want. woohoo.Traditionaly in a "development" the client stays with the developer. This developer is so smart because he selected only our office to to work with and by letting us keep the client, he doesn't have to hire and train staff to sit the development and we have a reputation for being highly educated and professional so it looks like a Win Win to me.We get today, Monday, next Saturday and Sunday.

This next three days will be in the low 70's which will be perfect, however it could go either way, it is a holiday weekend and people are usually out of town at a lake or campground, however, with the price of gas I think more people will be staying local.

Cross you fingers.

Moving on

Well we did it. We said farewell to our C21 family and hello to our Keller Williams family. It was a very hard decision , but it is the right one for our financial goals and success in this industry. We cleaned out our office and gave our hugs and said our see ya laters today. I am very excited to get started in our new office. I am hoping that all of our office furniture has been put in place so we can dive right in and get started.

Scott is taking us on a suprise get away this weekend since we closed a huge escrow today. Between the packing, moving, unpacking, and working our buns off we have not had a chance to take well deserved family bonding weekend.

The weather is going to be in the 90's Saturday in a weird warming pattern. We are normally mid 70's this time of year. I think we are going to blow up the pool that the Easter Bunny brought us and try it out tomorrow before we leave town.

Our not so little kitties are full of trouble but cute as heck so it's hard to be mad at them for very long.

Well I better go pack for our weekend.

Frolicking

I just couldn't resist posting this silly video of Scott frolicking throught the spring air with the mini. Be sure to press the play button twice.

Mini Horses

This past Sunday our clients invited us to bring Steven out to their horse ranch for some fun. We had a fantastic time with all of the animals and Steven over came his fear of horses somewhat. We had the opportunity to take the reins of one pretty little gal...take a look....

These two horses below were brought to learn how to pull a cart and take direction from the driver. It was great to see. These two guys were very very playful....kinda like large kittens Steven said.

This hen is sitting on eggs and she let our client walk right up to pet her. In the picture below the horse is actually black, because they blanket the horse during the winter months the hair turned white. As we were petting her we were pulling out chunks of white hair revealing the shiny black coat beneath. Very cool.A trainer was on site training riders how to drive carts. Our client said that they will teach Steven if he is interested when we go back.

Finally we have internet again.

It has been a long and terrible 3 weeks with our internet service. We had AT&T for our internet connection since we moved here and our service has been nothing short of fantastic. The second we move to our house it goes all to heck. We finally had to cancel and we gave clearwire a try. Well four days, two modems, a tech guy making a house call, and we still had bad ...we are talking dial up slow....service. Soooo needless to say we discontinued our service with clearwire and we are now back with the Comcast service we had while in Spokane. We have a Comcast center here so we got to go right down and pick up the modem, we purchased some snazzy router from Costco, and Scott got us up and running. I am so excited to be able to get caught up with my blogs, newsletters, and research. So if you are just tuning in, be sure to look at the next several entries because I have been a picture posting fool tonight. The Slowski's must be so disappointed.





Between moving, spring break, work and unpacking, our lives have been very full. I finished unpacking the last of the boxes yesterday and we need to hang all of our shelves, pictures, and things to complete our adventure. (aka: hellish nightmare called moving)





We sold two more homes since I posted last and we hope to open escrow on 3 more in the upcoming weeks. People are finally realizing that this is the right time to buy property and sell property at market value for today (not 2005 during the big boom). We have been meeting several business owners and independant contractors such as ourselves and it has been great developing a network of professionals and friends in different ventures in our area. I had no idea that this community was so full of people relying on self employment rather then the dreaded corporate employment. The only draw back is medical insurance. We qualify for group coverage through the California Association of Realtors, however we bare the full cost of premiums which totaled over 15k last year. Most of the self employed in our community cannot afford premiums such as this and they are very frustrated with "the system". We are as well but with the medical challenges in our family non- coverage is not an option.





I decided to go short with my hair and had my stylist take off about seven inches and we went crazy with layers. I Love it and everyone is commenting on how much younger I look. It is also alot easier to comb out and the curls just spring right up so it takes no time at all to style in the morning...yahooo. Scott stills prefers baldness and Steven as you can see in the pictures in the Easter posts prefers a buzz cut.





I will try to capture pictures from the inside of our fun little rental home as soon as we finish getting everything hung up and the deco placed in it's most appealing spots. Once I do I will post them.





Steven had a glorious time at the coast with Grandma and Grandpa during spring break and has advised us that he requires two weeks with them this summer. I told him that we would have to space it out over the length of the summer rather then take it all at one time. He recommended that we just take two 7 day cruises and that would work out perfect. Gotta love that kid :) He takes after his grandpa. Here are some cute pictures that grandpa took of Steven playing army men at the beach house.

Easter Morning with Grandma and Grandpa

The Easter Bunny and Grandma, Grandpa, and Nanna spoiled us this year. After opening all of the gifts the five of us went to champagne breakfast at sizzler. Here are a few pictures of Easter morning.

Here is a great picture my dad took the afternoon we brought the kittens home. They're home is the third bedroom/work out room. They seemed to like it in there until they experienced the rest of the house. :) As of today they have access to all rooms and tonight is the first night I am not locking them in their room. Should be interesting to see how this turns out. Wish me luck.