We are finally home!

Seriously!

We are officially home owners as of 04/24/2009. We closed on our first home (and hopefully last home because we never ever ever ever, did I say never ever? want to move again!)!!!

We are thrilled. We are so excited. Well, excited and having emotional breakdowns all at the same time. Haha. It's a lot of work and a lot of change. Luckily C and I bounce off of each other so when one is melting down, the other one is strong and encouraging, and vice versa. it's a good balance.

We did our final walk through on Friday morning and then went and signed about 10 tree's worth of paper to officially close. The sellers were going to sign a few hours later. They did and everything went well........ except there was a glitch in the system and the money was never wired to the sellers account or whatever. So we begged to be able to go into the house anyway and they agreed. Essentially we had a "free" house for a few hours!

We have awesome friends. We are so blessed. C and I were talking about how amazing everyone is and C said that it is just so humbling to see all these people truly care for us and want to help us. It is truly amazing.

Anyways, these awesome friends showed up on Friday evening and painted, painted, painted, painted, went home and slept, came back Saturday morning, and painted, painted, painted, painted. We painted the entry, living and dining rooms. We painted the accent wall and wet bar. We painted our Masted bedroom. It was a lot of work and somehow we did it in 24 hrs!

We still have other rooms to paint, but that is going to have to wait for awhile. We are exhausted!

We hired movers to move all of our crap. It was well worth the money! They were great. We officially have all of our belongings in the same place! (well almost, we have a few things left at the apartment that we are moving over tonight. Just odds and ends, etc)

So one of the things we did was buy a king size bed! Woohoo! This is one of the most amazing investments, ever! haha. There is so much space!

I also got my gas grill! It was one of my requirements for when we bought a house. I made sure to go buy one on Saturday. It sits perfectly in my back yard. (see? I said MY BACK YARD!!)

I have already had to say NO to C because he is begging me to let us get a dog. NO NO NO. Can't we unpack first before we discuss this? I thought we had agreed kids first, then dogs (and only dogs when my kids are begging me for one and I am guilted into it... but not before then!!).......

We are slowly but surely settling in. Finding homes for all of our belongings... (homes within our very own home!)

Anyways I will be sure to post pictures, etc.. I know I know, I said that last time.. but I really will.. whenever we find our camera ;-)

Hope all is well!

Love,
A & C