All Moved In!

We are all moved into our new house! It is beautiful and we absolutely love it. We got the keys on Sunday afternoon around 1:00 and immediately started loading up the two pick up trucks with all our junk. It went pretty quick as we had a couple guys help us out. (Thanks Jon and Thad!) After we got all the big stuff over, Matt and Jon went to Lowe's to get all the panels and chain link fences to finish off our back yard for Cookie. They worked on that til it got dark and I worked inside, unpacking boxes. We were pooped by the end of the night and very sore the next day. But it was so worth it!

The to-do list is getting smaller, but we still have a few things to do including putting together our new dresser for the master bedroom, putting up decorations, exchanging a bar stool, unpacking the remaining boxes in the garage and office, and lastly, cleaning the rest of the old apartment for our inspection on Friday. Not much left to do until we're "done" with the move. I love having a house so far! It's such a feeling of freedom that we can repaint or put in something new if we want. We are just so lucky that there is almost nothing to remodel because the previous owners really kept up with remodeling in the 7 years they lived here. The only "big" project we have ahead of us (and definitely not right away) is the mater bathroom. It is just a bit outdated with linoleum flooring and a bronze-colored shower door.

Here are a few pictures for your viewing pleasure. I cannot show you the living room and our bedroom yet because my mom hasn't seen our new furniture yet and it's a surprise.

I love the tree in our front yard right now.


One major factor in buying this house: the SUN ROOM!


Guest bathroom, recently remodeled


Guest bedroom (no bed yet, but feel free to use the air mattress!)


Aaaand...my AMAZING kitchen! It's like I designed it myself. I love the color and the counters.

More pictures to come :-)

How's it going?

Has it really been two weeks since my last post? Are you even still reading this blog?? What a slacker I've been. I guess it's just because there hasn't been a lot going on nor have I been inspired to write about anything special.

We got a lot of packing done today. I still have the whole kitchen to take care of though, which I'm kind of avoiding. I don't know how we accumulated so much stuff in just a year of being in this house.

The good news is....we get to move in a week early. We will get our keys a week from tomorrow. Seems like forever ago when we first saw our new house and now, we're about ready to move into it. We have quite a list of things to do the next two weeks before our rent is up. We have to schedule an inspection for our rental townhouse when it's completely empty. We also have to rent a carpet shampooer and do the floors. So in a span of only 24 hours, we will probably be cleaning the floors in both houses.

Today we went on a trip to Lowe's to look at washers, dryers, mirrors, paint, spackle, and storage bins. I want a smokey purple master bedroom but Matt thinks the hue I like looks like make-up. Not sure why, but ok. Might have to go with a nice blue-ish/green. The only other part of the house I want to repaint for sure is the entryway. Other than that, all the other rooms are colors we like.

So tomorrow, I'm sure we will be packing up more boxes, going through all the piles of junk to either donate or sell, fill in all the nail holes, and look at more paint colors. Getting there....a little at a time.

Homeowner

I can officially say it now. I am a homeowner!!

We are so excited to finally have sealed the deal on our new house. It really came close to not happening on September 30 like our original contract said, but after a lot of paper-pushing, our loan officer made it happen.

Now we only have to wait 29 more days to move into the place. That means 4 weekends of packing and de-junking the current place. Some people have a harder time getting rid of 20 years of childhood memories (and by some people, I mean Matt). We went through several boxes of old cards, gadgets, odds, and ends a week or two ago and I managed to throw away several bags of useful items. Among the most imporant items included a bag of 10 year old jawbreakers mixed in with some dead batteries. I even found an old sock with a bar of soap tucked inside. Nice.

Now that we have a move in date, we made our rental company very aware that we would be leaving in 30 days. They are sad to see us go as the lady assisting us at the rental office kept commenting on how awesome my platinum hair was. Just call me Lady Gaga. Everyone else does.

Hope you are all off to the start of a fabulous weekend.