You’ll discover this won’t be an ordinary casting call, it’s going to be an all-day PARTY at Big Al’s!

If you don’t already know, Big Al’s consists of 66,000 square feet of FUN and comes complete with food, drinks, bowling, an arcade, Full Swing Golf simulator, pool tables, shuffleboard, a Wii Lounge, and the biggest, most impressive sports bar you may have ever seen featuring a 55-FOOT big screen TV – Big Al’s is all about BIG TIME FAMILY FUN!

CASTING CALL
Sunday, May 20, 2012
10:00AM-3:00PM
Big Al’s @Progress Ridge TownSquare
14950 SW Barrows Road, Beaverton, OR

Doors open at 10; Casting calls begin at 10:30!
Visit Big Al’s online for more information

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Jason has been busting out the CMA’s left & right!  With the market moving and homes selling, inventory is at far lower levels and buyer interest high – it’s time to catch this perfect wave if you’re considering selling your home.

We welcome the opportunity to discuss what’s going on in the market, the process, solutions answer any questions and share how our expertise is helping many people put that exciting SOLD sign in their yard in record time. In fact, not all of our listings are even making it on the market before we get them sold.

The Market is moving, now is a great time to request a Comparative Market Analysis and find out your homes value. We’re always here to be of service to you, call us anytime 971-832-1234

The Sherwood School District is offering Full Day Kindergarten in 2012-13.  Parents are welcome pick up kindergarten registration packets beginning Monday, April 9 in the main office of their home school.

Full Day Kindergarten registration will begin on Thursday, April 26.  All parents who drop off their completed registration packets on April 26 anytime between 7:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. are said to have a reserved spot in a full day program.  Any registrations received after April 26 will be put on a waiting list.

For more information about full day Kindergarten registration, visit the main office of your Sherwood school.

Sherwood Elementary School Reference Guide

Archer Glen Elementary
16155 SW Sunset Blvd.
Sherwood, OR 97140

Edy Ridge Elementary
21427 SW Copper Terrace
Sherwood, OR 97140

Hopkins Elementary
21920 SW Sherwood Blvd.
Sherwood, OR 97140

Middleton Elementary
23505 SW Old Hwy 99W
Sherwood, OR 97140

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It’s time to get ready to bring some green to shower them with support and brighten the day of this locally owned business! Cash Mob Sherwood set to kick off tomorrow at “IT’S ALL ARRANGED” a flower & gift shop in Old Town Sherwood!  Everyone will start rolling in at 11am – and we’re all excited to see you tomorrow!!

Please spread the word, share this post to your wall, tweet about it and text your friends – the more the merrier!

We’d like to thank Michele Howard, owner of SweetStory Bakery for helping Cash Mob Sherwood by randomly selecting the next hit and passing the torch! (Michele is pictured in the Cash Mob Announcement below holding up this months business which she drew in the days following her mob) The cash mobsters can’t wait to hit the streets to show some love for our local flower & gift shop!    Additionally we’d like to thanks Sally Ho for the fantastic followup article -and- announcement she wrote in Oregon Live and feature that will be released in the Saturday Oregonian Newspaper!

Join us on facebook at www.facebook.com/cashmobsherwood and on the website at www.CashMobSherwood.com

Our youngest holding up bunny ears as they stuff eggs for their Church

Get ready for the best FREE Easter Egg Hunt around!

This 12th annual Sherwood event is a BIG Easter Egg-stravaganza and it’s FREE to the public.  There will be more candy and prize filled eggs up for the taking then you’ll know what to do with.

Save the Date for the Egg Hunt

When: Saturday, April 7th at 1:00 pm
Where:  Stella Olsen Park

Easter Egg Hunts for All Ages

The Sherwood event is open to children from toddlers to fifth-graders. Children will be separated into three groups for the egg hunt: Ages 0 to 2 | 3-year-olds to kindergarteners | first through fifth-graders.

Come Have An Egg-cellent Good Time

Several hundred children attend the hunt put on by Woodhaven Community Church at Sherwood’s Stella Olsen Park. Plastic eggs will contain candy or toy. The Easter Bunny will be in attendance, there will be cotton candy and many other fun things in store.  The event starts at 1:00 pm and is expected to wrap up sometime around 2:30 p.m.

Hop on by, we hope to see you at the 12th Annual Sherwood Egg Hunt – it’s going to be an egg-cellent good time!

It’s that time again, the second annual Liam’s $6 Club school wide fundraiser at Edy Ridge Elementary School.  All the proceeds raised go towards helping kids at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.  Last year, I wrote about my boys and their idea to hold a bake sale in honor of their friend Liam to raise money for his campaign.

After much success getting their baked goods out there, they raised around $500 dollars and in the process burnt out the “As Seen on TV” Brownie Baking Pan (that is a good thing) that Mason so excitedly received from Santa that Christmas.  It was fun experience for our boys to do something together for such a great friend and cause – many proud mamma moments and my house smelled wonderful with all that baking going on the the background!

This year turned out a bit different. While we were convinced that they’d continue the tradition of baking they surprised us when they put the brakes on right before launch!  Like typical kids they keep us on their toes and are full of endless ideas.  There was one thing for sure, both the boys decided they wanted to do something fresh and new… But the question was, what??

Our 1st grader Gavon said; “I want it to be in a bag, with stickers like the way we did it last year.”  Okay I said.  So “What do you plan to have in the bags?”  I asked.  Mason knew right away, “it needs to be something sweet!” he said with a big smile — my boys seem to always get excited when sugar is involved!  One thing that stayed with us and has had some inspiration on both campaigns is that one of Liam’s favorite songs from Mary Poppins is “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down…” he actually sang a bit of that on a clip we watched when he was in the hospital.

Imagining with a bit of worry they’d say something like let’s make pies because they’re round like the $6 Club logo, I was delighted when Mason continued thinking and asked, “what is Liam’s favorite Candy?” not sure of the answer myself, we had to do our homework so I contacted my friend Laura, Liam’s mom and found out it was Skittles or Sour Patch Kids.  Then there was the light bulb moment!

It seemed so clear you could almost see the glowing bulb right over Mason’s head!  The boys were going to bundle one of Liams FAVORITE candies with one of each of their favorite candies!  Mason’s being a Nestle Crunch Bar and Gavon’s, a KitKat Bar.  BINGO!  Like their previous campaign last year, “Baked with Love for Liam“, they created a sign they both colored and had me turn them into labels for the lunch sacks that magically became extra special goodie bags they call “Bag of Love for Liam!”

I was very proud of them for their commitment towards doing something that’s meaningful to them.  As they call it, “doing our part with heart!”  They’d successfully branched out with a fresh campaign that was a spin off of the year before, and had something NEW to offer. They boys were happy and ready to begin their journey to raise money for the Club!

In true $6 Club fashion, you can purchase one of these “Bags of Love for Liam” for just $6!  Each comes complete with a bundle of sugar in the form of three full sized candy bars, each a favorite to these three sweet boys.

They are available for sale at Sweet Story Bakery in Old Town Sherwood and Copper Creek Mercantile Sherwood Feed Store off 99w during business hours.  If you’d like to place a special bulk order for a party, event or client giveaways please email or call me directly and we will make that happen!

Thank you in advance for your support!

I can be reached at amber@gardnerteam.net – by phone at 971-832-1235 or on facebook at www.facebook.com/gardnerteam

Sincerely,

Amber Gardner and our boys!

Cover of Barron's Magazine

Market update with lots of positive housing buzz!

Home prices ready to rebound

This special feature and cover of the latest March, 2012 issue of Barron’s Magazine states home prices are ready to rebound.  A great article that sums up the housing market experience, shadow inventory brought on by distressed sales and foreclosures and the turn of the housing market with recovering home prices.  Barron’s expects after falling 34% over the past six years, “U.S. home prices will soon bottom. They could turn back up by spring 2013.”

Another good article just released by Real Estate Insider News states “history will show that actual housing bottom was late 2011″ and Bank of America agrees as they’ve updated their forecast, declaring that “housing prices have hit bottom earlier than they expected.”

Local markets within the market

If you jump in, read these tasty real estate morsels all the way through and while doing so remember this is U.S. housing market neews.  While this is important to the overall health of housing recovery, all markets within the national housing arena are not created equal.  As we’ve played witness to several times over the past few years, there have been states that have shown signs of recovery before others.  Narrowing it down further, areas, cities and towns have been featured for increased home sales, and you can keep zeroing in from there to niche’ markets, areas of towns, neighborhoods, etc.

These respective pockets in the market are like mini-economies within the big picture — as such, they react to their own respective forces despite what the national real estate market is doing.  These pockets or mini-economies if you will,  play a direct role in these respective niche’ markets and the real estate prices within them — also known as local markets within the market.

Don’t wait to buy

The best positioning as a home buyer is to be ahead of the curve and in your home when the market starts adjusting.  As a homeowner, you want to be settled and ready to collect on any type of market gain.  We all know there won’t be a magic reset button that’s pressed at any given time declaring a market bottom.  Recovery is sure to be a gradual with bumps along the way and as we’ve experienced, different from one place to the next as respective local markets within the market will have real estate values directly affected by activity within them.

Don’t wait to buy.  You don’t find yourself sitting on the fence while mortgage rates are at a record low and housing options and affordability are at their all time best, you may very well find yourself the wrong side of the fence.  Attempting to follow variable market predictions could have you all over the map.  Now is the time.

Things are on the mend

While we’ll hear or read in the coming months variances of the same message; home prices on the rebound, market to hit bottom, housing crash over, road to recovery ahead…  As advised we need to mentally, emotionally and financially be prepared for housing news for the next 12-18 months to be mixed at best.  The point I think being made with all the valuable insight around us, things are on the mend and that’s a good place to be.

Here to serve you

The Gardner Team is out showing homes to buyers and presenting market updates to sellers everyday.  If you have any questions about the real estate market, are considering a purchase, would like to discuss options to sell your home or will be selling yours and buying another, we’d love to help you take advantage of your positioning in today’s market.  Contact us, our professional real estate team is here to serve you and is committed to your success.

Beaverton-Aloha well loved, move in ready one level home on nearly 1/4 acre.  This home won’t last!  Featuring newer updates: Appliances, furnace, interior paint, updated kitchen and bathrooms and refinished oak hardwood floors. HUGE fenced backyard and plenty of room to play or garden.  For more information on this real estate opportunity in Beaverton or homes and land for sale in the surrounding area, contact Jason and Amber Gardner, The Gardner Team with The Hasson Company Realtors.  971-832-1234

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