Butterfly Release

As many of you know, this past Saturday we attended a Butterfly Release out at the statue. It was a spectacular morning here in Colorado, as the entire event was. We all received a Monarch Butterfly to release after all the names of the children were read by Corinne, the founder of Rowan Tree Foundation. It was beautiful to watch all the butterflies on their new journey in life, kind of like what I've been going through these past few months. An incredibly difficult journey that I still do not know why I was chosen to go on.

My friend Jill brought two red roses for her twins and a gerber daisy for Jillian, she passed the flowers out to her entire family and mine as well. It was so touching, as we both always leave a flowers at the statue when we visit.

To end the celebration, we all headed over the the Pinery Country Club and enjoyed a wonderful brunch. It was nice to sit out on the patio and chat with family and friends, and every now and again catch a glimpse of a Monarch butterfly fluttering by.

We Are Staying!!!

Hip Hip Hooray!!! The Phx buyers accepted our offer as we knew they would, they were just fishing to get more money out of us! $%#@ Anyways, we are thrilled to be staying here in Denver. Hopefully the drama is finally over! 16 days until we close on the Phx house.

I'm especially happy because I'm able to stay close to the Angel Statue. In 2 weeks there will be a Butterfly Release out at the statue and the walls will be completed with Jillian's memorial tile. If anyone is interested in joining us, please go to http://www.rowantreefoundation.org/ to RSVP by June 14th. We would love to have friends and family with us on this very special day.

Oh . . . I forgot to mention I was able to get tickets to Madonna's concert! I'm super excited! As my friend Jill said in her blog "I will be eating ramen noodles for the next few months to pay for the ticket"! Oh, it will be so worth it!

More Drama

OK . . . today while we were having our inspection on the house in Colorado, our realtor called to tell us that there was problems on the Phoenix house. The Phx realtor didn't like our repairs, for example they said the microwave was leaking radiation, we had Kitchen Aid come out to look at it and they said there was nothing wrong with it. We also had an electrician look at the main electrical panel as the circuit was blowing when all the lights were on in the kitchen, living and dining room (for the life of me why would you want to burn your retinas) and he said the problem was that the wrong wattage of light bulbs were installed causing the problems. This was completely unacceptable to the buyer as they want a new microwave and a new electrical panel installed even though there is absolutely nothing wrong with anything. So we have sent a counter stating we will give you XXXX dollars to repair everything yourself as nothing we can do will be right. If they do not accept the offer, we are going to be moving back to Phoenix after all. Sorry, I'm venting over the stupidity of it all! I'll keep everyone posted on the Haynes Drama!

Lost Friends

Well, I've finally met up with my 4 long lost bestfriends. It's been about 6 years since I've seen Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha. Yes, all of you Sex in the City fans I saw the movie last night. I won't spill any of the details of the movie, but I will say I really enjoyed the movie. I went with a group of great gals (Jill, Corrine & Jen) and we shared some pretty hilarious stories after the show on how our lives have been similar to theirs. One funny note, Jen has never seen an episode of SITC and told us she would catch-up and watch the shows the day before. Those of us that have watched know that she's looking at a good week in bed to see all the episodes.

Have any of you seen any good movies lately?

Crazy, Crazy, Crazy

It's been awhile since I have blogged, things have been super crazy. I'm not sure when our lives are going to be back to normal. Every time we turn around there seems to be another snag. Well here goes . . .

First, we had planned to move back to Phoenix at the end of the summer. Our landlord decided to change that as we received a 30 day eviction notice on May 1st. So, with that our decision to move back was changed to June 1st. After getting all the movers set up, mail changed and all the other stuff that goes along with moving, we received an offer on our house in Phoenix on May 19. Of course we accepted the horrible offer, as we really want to stay here in Denver.

Now, we have to find a place to live in Denver?!? We asked our landlord if we could possibly stay one more month in the rental and he declined (he's trying to sell the house). With that, we had less than 2 weeks to pack the house and find a place to live. I'm currently in my spacious 2 bedroom, 400 square foot hotel room with a dog that is freaking out and Lily saying "Our new house!". Needless to say, we can't leave Tahoe by himself or he will just bark and we will probably get another eviction notice. So, I'm planning on being stuck in this hotel room with Lily and Tahoe for the next 5 weeks.

We did hear today, that the offer we placed on a house yesterday was accepted but they are not able to close until July 8th (we were hoping for June 25) as they are waiting for a house to be completed. We purchased a house in a community called Southshore, it is very family oriented with babysitting offered 2 nights a month for "Parents Night Out". Free babysitting . . . sign me up! It also won "Community of the Year" for the entire USA, it's a pretty new community so we will have to see how things end up. There are only two houses on the cul-de-sac, the other house is a spec that hasn't sold.

With Lily's 2nd Birthday right around the corner, I think we will have to postpone her party until we are settled. Then we will plan on Costco cake!