The Stevens Family

For those of you who don't already know, I'm officially a REALTOR. I'm working with Re/Max in West Burlington Iowa, you can find all of our contact info here: Re/Max
I'm very excited to start this new chapter in my life, and I really truly feel like it's the perfect job for me. I'll probably post my current listings, and open houses on my other blog, hopefully I'll be filling that up soon.
So if you or someone you know is interested in buying or selling in Southeast Iowa, please let me know!

We made is through the Open House, so now we're taking it easy for awhile. We really want to enjoy the summer with Jayden a bit, especially since we'll have a little on at this time next summer.
On Sunday we went to Fun City, and had an absolute blast. Jayden loves the water, and he basically dove right in, and went down every single slide he was allowed to go down (there are a lot!). I didn't get any pictures, simply because I didn't want to be stuck with the camera all day.
This morning, Jayden and I went to Starr's Cave. In case you didn't know already, Jayden is 100% boy, so this was perfect for him...there were bugs, dirt, a bridge and the really cool cave, so he was pretty happy. This afternoon we may be trying to make it to a beach in the area, my sister Heather and her son Ethan are scoping things out at Lake Pollmiller to see if it looks like fun or not. Hopefully it looks okay, because I've been anxious to take Jayden to a real beach. Here are a few pictures from this morning:Also, I updated my other blog, the one all about the Burlington area, it's also about Starr's Cave, but with more scenic pictures:
http://burlingtoniowa.blogspot.com/

I thought I'd put together a little online Open House with before and after pictures of most rooms for those of you who couldn't make it. The pictures aren't all the greatest, but I think they'll show what we've done so far. I'll write a bit more about the actual Open House at the end of the post.

So, I'm a week late with picture updates (sorry Steve!). Our open house is this upcoming Saturday, and you wouldn't believe how hard we've been working to get things done. So basically, I'm not posting pictures until this weekend because I don't want to ruin things for the people who are coming, so if you aren't coming, you'll just have to wait until the weekend (ahem, Steve). Lord knows I hate posting a blog without pictures, but I think it will be worth the wait. Not that it's anything spectacular, but there is a lot of stuff that I'm pretty darned proud of. In the last couple of weeks we've almost finished the half bath downstairs, mostly finished our bedroom which had been sorely neglected since we've moved here, and nearly finished the upstairs bathroom too! Those are a lot of rooms that are almost done! Can you believe it? Sure, we still have a couple of rooms that we have barely started on, but it still feels good to have some rooms that have the biggest things out of the way.

Plus, those of you who aren't coming on Saturday (Steve again), you'll be missing a pretty neat surprise.

Also, the folks over at RemodelingMySpace have written up a lovely article on the blog, you can read it here: http://www.remodelingmyspace.com/contest-entries/stevens-family-blog
It's such a nice write up, and for those of you who may not be all that familiar with our renovation process, they really summed things up nicely.

PS. I'm just teasing, Steve.



Alright, so I couldn't quite post without pictures, cause the kids in my family are so stinking cute.

...we just aren't blogging much.
Actually, we've gotten a lot accomplished since I last wrote! The half bath downstairs is almost done, the upstairs bathrooms is also almost done, Josh cleaned up the basement, and I repainted Jayden's floor. All in all, a very good weekend here. Tiresome, but good.
I'll post pictures and a few more details tomorrow. I just wanted to give you all something to look at so you don't quit stopping by.
Blogging just doesn't feel the same when there aren't pictures to look at.
Plus, I've got some majorly cute pictures of Jayden. Surprise surprise.

The Open House is in less than two weeks.
Wish us luck.