Anniversary Day!

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Three years ago today: my beautiful bride said “I do” to spending sharing her life with me, and I would be remiss if I didn’t take a moment to thank her for the magical three years we’ve had in our marriage.  We’ve definitely had our share of adventures over the seven years we’ve been together, but something tells me that the best is yet to come….

As far as anniversary planning, Bethany takes the even years and I get the odd years, so I’d probably better figure something out for today (just kidding – but I don’t want to spoil the plans).

I will spend this day reliving our wedding day with our photos, grateful for all of the friends and family that came out to celebrate with us. Thank you for loving and supporting us on this journey!

Selling our home: 1 month in

It’s been a little over a month since our house has been on the market, and during that time we’ve gone through the whole cycle: 

We showed our home, received and offer, accepted the offer, looked for a home, walked through homes, found one we liked, decided it was little above our price range, walked away from a counter-offer, found another home, made an offer, got under contract, got our home inspected, fixed the identified items, found out that the house-selling contract was falling through, had to terminate our house-buying contract (as it was pending a successful closing), now putting our house on the market again.

So we’re pretty much back to where we started. The showings are starting back up, but unfortunately not at the pace we had out the gate. If I were to guess, I think that the High Park fire may be discouraging people from wanting to come up to Fort Collins and look at houses. We’re taking all of this as a lesson in patience, and looking forward to see where this will takes us. We’re a little bummed that we may miss out on the home we wanted to buy, but consider ourselves blessed to be in a position where we can be patient, and we know God has a plan for us and are anxious to watch that plan unfold.

We’re selling the farm! [Announcements]

This has been several weeks in the making, but we finally took the plunge and decided to sell our house!

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Our Rock Creek home has been an awesome place to live for the past four years.  For a couple starting out, this home provided the perfect amount of space, is located in a beautiful neighborhood that is full of life, and is a short walk away from the Front Range Village shopping center.  We definitely loved living here.  There last few weeks getting it ready to list have been pretty busy. You don’t realize just how much extra stuff you have until you try to de-clutter from it.  If you’d like to see the results of our effort, you can check out the pictures at our listing.

We’re now looking for a single-family home that’s a little more in between of our two jobs, as well as something that will host a few chapters of our lives.  We’re anxious to see where these next few weeks and months will take us and are excited for the opportunities.

Welcome baby Sonia!

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I’m excited to add another February family birthday to my calendar, welcoming my new niece and God-daughter, Sonia de la Luz Balderrama-Durbin, into the world on February 8!  Sonia came in at 7lbs and 20 inches.   Both baby and Mom are doing great and everyone gets to go home today!

Bethany and I will have to wait until April to go visit, but now are counting down the days!

Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go!

A few days ago I was in Turntable.fm DJ’ing in one of those “Anything” rooms, when the songs were trending to the nostalgic (and sometimes cheesy) variety. As my brother-in-law Tony said, I swung for the fences but luckily got a good response with Vanilla Ice’s “Ninja Rap”.  As if the song isn’t classic enough, the music video really drives it home.

It does scare me a bit that we’re starting to look back at things in the 90’s – the era of my teenage years – with the same patronization as we are with the 80’s. Does this mean I’m getting old?