SOLD!!!!

Well, friends... it is done and SOLD!!!  11 days on the market and we had an offer!  Offer negotiated and accepted and sold on day 13!  I am still in shock.  The biggest kicker is they want to close in the middle of April!  We are moving out much sooner than I expected.  It is all happening so fast, but I am so grateful that it happened.  We are so blessed!

I am so behind on my blog reading and hope to catch up with all of you very soon!  We are going to Minnesota for a look/see visit in the next few weeks.  I will keep you posted!

We also had our best friends come for their annual spring break visit and had a blast!  We love them and just enjoy being with them.  They stayed a full week and could have stayed longer!  Our favorite day was the boat ride out to Morris Island Lighthouse.  It is a gorgeous ride out and the best part is that we always see dolphins.  I love dolphins!  I always wanted to be a marine biologist and work with dolphins, but the whole don't-live-near-any-ocean thing always played a roll!  To watch these gorgeous creatures swim back and forth under the boat is such an amazing experience!  They were riding the wake created under the boat.    Our boat captain said they love to do it!  At one point, they all wanted to get by us and they came as a pack speeding by.  I swear they were going about 35 miles an hour!  It was incredible!

My water baby

Fiddler crab

Horseshoe crabs that were getting a little busy!  They were so caught up they missed the whole tide thing and were too far inland.  We had to move them so they wouldn't die!  The female is the large one in the front and the male is the smaller one.  This female was huge!!!

They were not letting go!  This is to show you how darn big they were!

This is the Morris Island Lighthouse.  It was originally a brick tower with a light constructed by the Colony of South Carolina in 1767.  In 1861 the Confederates blew up the lighthouse so the northern troops could not use it.   After the Civil War, Congress approved a new lighthouse and it was completed in 1876.  Due to jetties being built to protect Charleston Harbor, the tidal currents have changed and it has caused severe erosion to the island.  Today the lighthouse stands alone and is completely surrounded by water.  Hurricane Irene that came through last year caused a huge amount of erosion from even our trip there last year.  The change was amazing.  In 1962, the lighthouse was decommissioned but local residents fought to save the structure.  It is now privately owned and efforts are made to preserve this beautiful lighthouse.  

The slight tilt to the left happened as the foundation shifted after the earthquake of 1886.  Charleston sits on a fault line that is larger than the San Andreas Fault!

He popped up and looked right at us!

Then came right over to say hi!

Just a perfect day in the Lowcountry!

My Blue Hour Shot

Hi everyone!  You know how I love to take pictures and so I convinced the realtor that I could do my own pictures of the house.  He is our neighbor and was all for it.  We talked about what we wanted and we agreed that a blue hour shot would be really cool and different.  I was able to capture it and it looks awesome on the MLS.  It really stands out and makes you take notice.

We had a showing on Sunday and it went well.  We know the people so it is a bit tricky, but I know we will find the right buyer who will love this house.  It is now spotless (for the most part) and show ready at all times.  I am reading essays again, and I feel like I have washed 700 loads of laundry.  We have company coming next week then going to Minnesota to search for a house for a week.  Then I have company coming that weekend we get back, a Founders Day event that I am planning, and company coming that week to visit.  I think I may have bit off more than I can chew!!!  Oh well, I am so excited to have my friends come and enjoy our last bit of Charleston!  

Have a great week everyone!

Hello all!!!

I have been MIA for a while now!!!  Wow did February fly by!  We had company come from the 19th through the 22nd.  I will post some of our adventures soon!  My MIL came on the 22nd and I headed to Disney for my 3rd annual girls trip/race!  We had so much fun and let me tell you... I didn't even take a camera!!  My girlfriend is sending me some pictures so I will share that soon too!

The house is on the market and I am going into cleaning purging mode!  I thought I would share a few more shots of the house.  Isn't it sad that I haven't done anything to the house?  I am a three year kind of gal.  I live in it for about three years, get a feel and then make my decorating moves!  I had so many plans but now I will just use them in a new place!

Our Living Room

We had the cabinets and mantle custom made to make the room more user friendly!  

A Second Guest Bedroom a.ka. another playroom for Jemma

Jemma's Playroom

I want to go on record as saying this room has been staged!!  It is not normally this neat by any stretch of the imagination!

Downstairs Bath

This is where I have many of my prints that I collected throughout Europe.  I know the bathroom is a weird place for them, but we see them in there all the time and enjoy them!  :-)  

Our Master Bedroom

This poor bedroom is always the last one to be decorated!  I was going to work on it this year in the whites and blues.   I wanted white bedding with a blue duvet at the end of the bed.  Light walls and white drapes. I am going to still do it in our new home.  

We will have the beachiest bedroom in Minnesota!

Our Master Bathroom

I was going to paint it the blue color from the Master Bedroom.  Now I am glad it is very neutral!

I am off to clean so wish us luck!  We leave in a few weeks for Minnesota to look around and find a house.  Say a prayer that we sell ours quickly and can find what we love there!