small painting job

BEFORE (paint and fixture upgrades only) photos....
Gawd awful vanity and floor I know. One step at a time....
BEFORE photo of office
AFTER photo after paint and fixture change (light, towel bars, etc.)

AFTER photo of office
Not major improvement but every little bit counts. One glorious day, I will get a new bathroom vanity and travertine the shower and floor. I am excited for the happiness of that future day. Until then, this small improvement will do. You have to celebrate the small victories in life right!

Dream board

To make a FREE online dream board (that you can print), go to www.digitaldreamboard.com. I love this website!! It turns out amazing!! You put images from the internet on it so you don't have to go out and buy magazines and get a close version of what you want. I love putting my goals up so this dream board is my new favorite thing. I put it together in about an hour and it is the best dream board I have ever done. I even put it as my desktop background. I hope someone loves it as much as I do!! Again, it is free and so easy. And when you accomplish a goal, your dream board is saved so you can go in and easily replace the one image with another. Such cool stuff!

Moving work offices

our old building

Old office
Old conference room in old office
New conference room in new office!!
Our new office building
Next to Famous Daves-yummy barbaque!
We are upstairs on the second floor. You can see the reception desk thru the window.
Here we are packing (photo to come) up the old office as we prepare to move to a nicer building in Midvale area. Most real estate offices are downsizing and a lot of offices have closed their doors even. Luckily I am with a brokerage who is expanding in this crazy market. I am grateful to be with Everest Realty Group even after being there almost a year. After going thru an interesting previous year with Remax...(basically them not living up to the hype that they build plus some other things), we are very content in our new or not so new office. We still pass our old Remax office everyday and we see the car numbers shrink as more and more of their agents have and still keep coming over to our company. It makes me chuckle because we were the first ones to jump ship close to a year ago and a steady supply of agents (good ones I might add) have followed us. We are in a great environment which we hope continues. You know when things are good, sometimes you wonder how long can they really last as they are?? Well, I continually ask that and in my head, if I stay happy with Everest for 2-3 years, what more can I ask for. Anything more will be icing. So that is all I give it in my head. I've found it is sometimes better to have lower expectations than higher....old age maybe too.

So anyway, we are still getting our office settled with the move. Our building is next to Famous Daves if any of you are familiar with the area. Every time I walk outside around lunch I smell yummy baked beans and meat. That place probably gets a lot of traffic from our building. How can you not want to eat there every stinkin day!

6 days in Vegas....

Good lordie that is a long time in Vegas heat!! It was around 115 degrees everyday. Even at 3 am it was 110 degrees. Crazy hot and I have no idea how those Nevadans live in that. Anyway, we had a successful week at Mike Ferry (real estate seminar). Got some business while we were gone. Chris is pumped to work hard in real estate. I am pumped because of something else which I will share at a later time. We saw two comedians while we were there. We loved Craig Shoemaker (http://www.craigshoemaker.com/). He had us laughing so hard our cheeks and stomachs hurt. I was thinking to myself that he is the funniest person I have ever seen live. He is not a clean comedian however just to warn you folks. We work with some mormoms and they got up and left in the middle. Apparently they didn't like his humor. The next night we saw another guy who paled in comparison. Poor guy, he had a tough act to follow. While I was watching the second show, I was actually reviewing things that I needed to get done in my head. Not good. He did have clean jokes though.

We had this awesome lady come into our house two times a day to walk Bojangles and feed him while we were gone. He liked that a lot better than going over to someone else's house while we were gone. So we are thrilled to have someone we trust take care of our baby in our home and keep my flowers alive while we are out of town. Keep living the dream everyone....

Boating a few weeks ago

Fun in the SUN! We celebrated Brandy's b-day early this year in style. A perfect day on the lake. Thank you Dalley's... We LOVE you!! Happy 10 year anniversary!!

Summer fun and work...

So Bojangles is growing still... like a weed. I want him to stop growing because he is getting heavy! He is over 20 lbs I bet. He is definitely a mix of like scottish terrier or something. No yorkie is this big.
He is a lovable licker though....

I have been so busy lately, it has taken a flat tire on my car to slow me down enough to post on the blog. Argh! Nice surprise this morning. I must have run over a nail yesterday or something. So while I am waiting for Chris to come home and help me, here is a catch up...

I have had a client in town from Wisconsin. We looked at homes from morning til night for a week straight including Sunday. Rough week-draining, exhausting, and the worst part... we missed out on their 2 favorite homes due to multiple offer situations and also the seller deciding to rent at the last minute. So they left without having a home under contract. I had to place two offers on homes they aren't excited about....which to me is so sad! So I have pressure to find them a home on my own to surprise them with something better than what they are settling for... Shoot me now.

Guys playing beer pong...
Girls get together...
My awesome roommate Sara

Putting up the hammock...
My boys relaxing...

A simple pleasure in life...

So for 5 days straight, I have gone through about 30 oranges. You might ask why. Well for the simple reason of... being able to drink freshly sqeezed OJ. Nothing tastes like it in this world and I am addicted. I can't think of any way I would rather start my day than with freshly squeezed orange juice. Heaven!!