Monday, February 25, 2008

For Sale By Owner

Well, it's finally happened, we sold our house!! YAHOO!! We put our house up for sale the first of October thinking that that would give us two months (plenty of time) to sell our house just in time for Jeremy to finish up with school in December and we could start with a new job, in a new house, in a new place at the first of the year. Well, if its one thing we have learned our timing isn't always the Lord's timing, and our plans don't always coincide with his. Needless to say that didn't happen.
We knew trying to sell our house right now would be difficult. We have watched as other neighbors have had their houses up for well over a year and are constantly dropping their prices just a little bit lower to have an edge over the next guy. We knew we were lucky because Jeremy had done a lot of "extras" or upgrades on our home to make it different from the other 110 town homes in our area which we were hoping would really help. We started out pricing it a little lower than all the rest because luckily ours was one of the first to be built and we were able to get in at a good price. Soon others followed, not to mention the brand new town homes being built just down the street. Who wants to buy an existing one when they could go down the street buy a brand new one and pick out everything? We were a little frustrated, but we new the Lord was mindful and we just continued to have faith.
After dropping or price two more times we finally got a taker. We were able to sell it last Wednesday. What a huge relief!! With the market the way it is right now, I think we were actually really lucky to sell it as soon as we did.
Its actually kind of bittersweet for us. I am very exctied we sold it and get the chance to move on, but when it all came down to it. It's kinds sad. We know its the right thing and we (well I) can't wait to get down to Arizona and start this new chapter in our lives, but we love Cedar City. This is the place Jeremy has lived his whole life except for his mission to Boise, Idaho. He loves it here and I have really grow quite fond of this little place. We will definitely miss Jeremy's family. That is one of the things I am dreading the most. I really couldn't have married into a better family. I have wonderful in-laws and he has great brothers and sisters. All of Kylie's cousins are on the Felix's side. She loves to play with the "kids". We will miss our ward. Jeremy and I both had calling that we really enjoyed and had a chance to meet a lot of great people. Our ward was unique because most of it were couples our age with a ton of little kids, like 70 in the nursery. (don't worry they split it up and not all were active). We also have some really great memories of our little townhouse. Its the first house we bought after we were married, we have celebrated 3 anniversaries here, brought home our first little baby and celebrated her first birthday. We also had a great time decorating it and making it our own. Here are a few pictures we took to remember it.

The wood banister was one of the extras. No other townhouse has this.

Jeremy did all the cabinets and designed the extra counter space, which is the part where the bar stools are at.

Kylie's room. I love this room. (Jeremy built her crib from scratch I told him what a liked and he drew it up and built it-pretty cool!)

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Home with the Hansens

My sister Ashley, her roommate Nikki, Kylie and I decided to take advantage of the long President's weekend and head to the warm sun of AZ. Too bad it rained on us the first day, was over cast the second day and finally warmed up on Sunday and Monday the day we came home. Oh well, we still had a really good time. Kylie loves to see her grandparents and aunts and uncles down there. It was also conveniently my mom's birthday on Friday so we celebrated with her.
Here is the whole gang minus my poor dad who was really sick up in bed and poor Jeremy who couldn't come with us because he had to work.

Somehow all the attention always gets focused on Kylie. This was while we were singing happy birthday to my mom. Apparently by the look on Kylie's face we aren't doing a really great job.
Ice cream cones were a new thing for Kylie. At first she thought it was a cup and she wanted me to put a drink in it. She was really confused when I took a bite out of it to show her she was supposed to eat it.
She got the hang of it real quick, and then we put ice cream in it and she loved it even more.

We did other things such as; play with grandpa when he got feeling better. I'm not really sure what was up with the cape, she just brought that silky thing to me and wanted me to tie it on.

She thought his motorcycle was pretty cool. Grandpa can't wait until she's old enough to ride.

My parents had massive grapefruit growing on their trees. So we picked some to take home to dad.

She loved the pool. She would run outside and say "wheee." Too bad the water was still too cold to go for a swim.

We'd take this weather in February any day!

Saturday, February 9, 2008

She wasn’t Lying

It has been somewhat warm (and when I say warm I mean 43 degrees) the past couple of days and so we decided to take Kylie to Discovery Park and play, and of course what came with her?? Her hat and glasses (she calls her glasses "eyes"). She wasn't lying when she said she loves to wear them.

This is in the car on the way there. She was pretty excited!

Her favorite thing was the swings.

She had a pretty good time going down the small slide.

We took this picture right after we sent her down a big long slide and she was so ticked at us she wouldn't look at the camera!

We tried to get her to walk through the tube, but she kept saying "scared, scared." She's kind of on a "scared" kick lately. I'm not sure where she learned the word.

She was NOT happy to be coming home. (This picture is my favorite out of them all. It makes me laugh every time I look at it.)

Monday, February 4, 2008

My Favorite Things by Kylie Felix

My name is Kylie and I am 18 months old and I have decided that I would like to share with you a few of my most favorite things. I have a lot of favorite things, but these are just some of them. (by the way, these are in no particular order, I love them all equally!)


I love hats, particularly my dad's hats that hang in the closet and my snow hat that is in my top drawer, ( don't worry I will never forget where they are kept) and I loves shoes. I think "shoes" was one of my first words. I have been known to wear just my diaper and my shoes on occasion. There is nothing wrong with that!

I also love my jackets. If I could I would wear one all day long and insist that it gets put on when getting dressed in the morning. I have a couple different ones and sometimes making that choice of which one to wear can be hard, but none the less I still really like them.

My glasses. I love to wear my sunglasses. This mostly comes from my mom because I have noticed she always has hers on in the car. I just always hope mine are in the car too or it's a major fight as to who gets to wear my moms.

I have found that the only way to really enjoy watching Elmo (whom I also love) is by sitting in the cedar chest at the edge of my mom and dad's bed. Who can blame me? It's full of blankets and sometimes very bouncy. The only bad thing is I can't get out of it on my own.

My next favorite thing to do is talk on the phone. I actually learned this at a much younger age, but have just recently found out that talking back to someone on the phone is much more effective. I am very good at saying "hello," "I love you", and "bye, bye" and sometimes I will through in a "yeah" with a laugh here and there.

This is a little embarrassing, but I really like to sit on the potty. My dad thought it would be fun one time to sit me up there, little did he know I would fall in love with it and have to sit on it every time my diaper is changed. I really haven't mastered the concept yet. All I know is that it is a really fun place to sit and my parent gets really excited when I actually use it properly.

I have known for a while that watching Barney is a wonderful thing, but I have just found out that watching Barney on the portably DVD player with ear phones is the best experience ever. It is way more fun to watch Barney when it is more personal, and the surround sound of the ear phones make me think I am really there. I am really hoping that if I show enough interest in this my parents will get the clue and I can take this on those super long car rides to Arizona and back.

I love to feed myself, make a huge mess in the process and cookies. I wish you all could hear me say cookies because my mom thinks it's really funny. She laughs every time I say it. Some of my other favorite foods include apples, carrots, celery, cheese, oatmeal spaghetti-os, and hot dogs. I listed the healthy things first so you would be impressed.

Of course there are a lot of people that I really love too, I can't forget them. (there are just too many to list) I hope you enjoyed seeing all the things I like to do. I can't wait until I can do more!