Its been a while

Well its been a short bit since I have updated the blog here. So update on the house for the moment, my future brother in law has been busy scraping the popcorn ceilings before my fiance moves in. We found out fortunately that the ceiling is not asbestos which is a great relief. Jon and I have been working in the yard digging up the flower beds, sifting the dirt, and putting in new flowers and fertilizer. We have discovered that using the kitchen sink causes the bathtub to back up so we are going to see what we can do to fix that. Jon has a lime tree planted in the back yard and pepper plants in a planter box on the side of the house. Our peach tree is starting to produce peaches which are tasty but a bit firm, once the tree stops dropping fruit we are going to move it from the planter it is in right now so that it won't outgrow the planter. I still haven't really done anything about the wedding but am trying to set up my appointment to sign contracts. I also really need to get back to triathlon training because I am so unprepared and I really want to do the race in September. So I will keep you posted on all these things.

Its official

Well we are officially home owners. We got the call from our agent at about 4:30 this afternoon stating that we are now the owners of a home. My fiance picked up the keys so we shall be heading down first thing tomorrow morning to get to work. It's kind of confusing to figure out what we should do first. Look for appliances (we need a fridge, a washer, and a dryer)? Start cleaning? Start thinking about what colors to paint the rooms? So yeah I have no idea what I am going to do tomorrow but I am sure I will figure something out. I shall be posting pictures soon!

Final walk through

So today we did the final walk through of the house. If everything goes according to plan we will be getting keys tomorrow. We were reassured by our agent that its not just that we are noobs and don't know what we are doing that caused yesterdays document signing to be so stressful. According to our agent the escrow company are really not doing a good job of getting things together and telling us information about wireless routing and stuff that we should know. So the walk through went well the appliances are installed, there are new smoke detectors, a new heater, the kitchen door is fixed, so yeah, basically its ready to move in. So its looking like we are going to spend the Fourth of July weekend celebrating in the independence of our own house. We are planning to go appliance shopping this weekend, we need a refrigerator! We might not starting moving in much stuff until after we get the feelings scraped because we have popcorn ceilings. We might move a little bit of kitchen stuff in though (the kitchen doesn't have popcorn ceilings. I also went and picked up a bunch of cleaning stuff (murphy's oil soap, bleach, simple green, windex, rags) so that we can start cleaning the kitchen and bathrooms if nothing else. I also want to paint the kitchen, every room of the house is the same beige color, I don't want a beige kitchen. I think I am going to just paint the kitchen white. So yeah super excited about getting the house. So yay maybe even tomorrow night we can be sitting on the bare floor of our own house sipping champagne celebrating having our very own house (I am actually hoping to kind do some sort of celebrating especially considering we didn't really do anything when we got engaged cuz we had to drive home so I could go to work)

Well hopefully tomorrow I will be posting pictures of us with the keys to our new house!