School Week 30

Rockwell had his first soccer games for the season this week.  It has been so fun to watch him play. I always love watching his games. Even though the game on Tuesday night was the coldest, most miserable weather to be outside in! The boys didn't come close to warming up even though they were running for over an hour straight. It was so windy and so cold! But his team played great and took home a win that night.

The only thing that was not covered up on me was my eyes, so I could still watch the game. :)

The weather on Saturday was much more pleasant! They played great again, but ended up losing by one point. It's been awesome to see his team grow together and improve a lot over the seasons.

And they love having Kyle as their coach!

Damon thought he was so funny making this sign for himself that says "I am the boss."  He also made some for Paul and me that say "I am not the boss." :)

Watch out for these two!!

Paul has been working like crazy in real estate lately. This meme sums up the Utah market very well right now! :)

It is so difficult to get a house because there are about 30+ offers on every house for sale, and you have to have about $30,000 - $50,000 cash to offer on top of the asking price. Every house is sold within a couple days. It's nuts. Paul has learned quickly, been able to teach his clients about the market, and knows how to write strong offers that are being accepted. Another agent sent him this email last night, and I love that she took the time to spell it all out to Paul. He really is an amazing agent!

Congratulations!! Our clients have accepted your offer!!! 

We had received multiple offers, even one for $605,000, but decided to go with yours because it overall was the best! Please tell clients I've seen many offers but yours was the best. My clients liked the assurance of funds over appraisal if necessary, the EM going non refundable immediately and the $2,500 towards their closing costs from First Colony. But what really made the difference is having your lender there to assure us you are well qualified. That you communicated so well, how much you love the home, spending the time yesterday watching your client's enthusiasm! Then writing an offer immediately and aggressively. All of these things put you as the offer to beat. It made the contingency worth risking and quite frankly, if someone had asked me yesterday if a contingency had a chance in a multiple offer situation with other strong offers I would have lost  money betting against it. Well done! I hope they realize how fortunate they are to have one of the best realtors working for them! Especially, in this market, it is the difference between getting their forever home instead of an email stating we went with another offer.

Damon took a turn reading the scriptures during our Family Night this week. He read four verses like a champ! We were all so impressed with how well he's reading now. We're so proud of all the hard work you have put into learning to read Damon Boy!!

We went to Grandma and Grandpa Ham's house for an Easter celebration on Sunday. The kids loved the egg hunt!!

This morning before Tessa left for school she showed me this note that she was putting in Damon's room. They like to use Damon's remote control car to deliver notes to each other during quiet time on Sundays. She kept one of the notes that Damon sent her that said 'I luf you Tessa!' She thought that was cute and spelled love the same way he did. As she was leaving for school she told Damon that someone left something for him in his room and he should go check it out. He was so excited to find the note and one of the dollars that Tessa got from the egg hunt yesterday. That was so sweet of Tessa! She has always been so generous and thoughtful like that.

Damon went right to his basket and put all of his jelly beans into a bag, wrote a note for Rockwell, and went and put them in Rockwell's room for him to find when he got home from school. I love that he wanted to pay it forward. :) So sweet!