Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Swim Lessons
I'm loving swimming lessons. I could get used to coming home, eating, and then witnessing this:
Monday, June 29, 2009
Pictures
Here are two pictures of our new house. I made a little video tour but it wouldn't load (I have slow Internet, I guess) this will have to do!
Our family room:
Our kitchen/dining area:
These two rooms connect to form one big room. I'm having tons of fun with all the new stuff and the kids love having so much room to play in. Mike is definitely enjoying the garage and unfinished basement and all the projects I want him to do.
Our family room:
Our kitchen/dining area:
These two rooms connect to form one big room. I'm having tons of fun with all the new stuff and the kids love having so much room to play in. Mike is definitely enjoying the garage and unfinished basement and all the projects I want him to do.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
The Home Stretch
We haven't moved into our new house yet. So, there are two versions of our current situation--a short one and a long one. I'll share both here. Feel free to read either one or both.
The Short Story:
Our new house is finished! Yay! But, no we're not in it yet. We hope to sign all the paperwork this week and move in the day after we sign (whenever that is!). I'm just waiting for a call to let me know that the loan has been processed.
The Long Story:
Our house was not supposed to be finished until the end of June. But, in the middle of April the contractor said that he was ahead of schedule and that we would probably move by the end of May. This got us very excited. As it got closer we confirmed with him that he was still ahead of schedule and planned to be done the end of May. We had to give 30 days notice to the landlady of the rental house we were living in. We told her we would move out June 6th, figuring this would give us a week wiggle room in case the house wasn't done. I didn't want to be paying rent for too many days that we wouldn't actually be in the rental, so I was a anxious to give notice. A little too anxious, it turned out.
The end of May came and went and the house wasn't quite done (for various reasons). We asked the landlady to give us another week. She was great and said that would be fine. The house got finished (which felt like it took forever, but it was actually ahead of the original timeline) and now we are stuck waiting for the loan papers to go through.
In the meantime, we had to ask the landlady for a little bit more time because we had told her we would move by last Saturday (the 13th). She informed us that we couldn't really have any more time in the rental because she scheduled someone to come in and replace the floors in the kitchen and bathroom. She said we could store our stuff at the rental for a few days, but we obviously couldn't stay there with no functioning bathrooms. So, last Saturday we moved our stuff to the garage of the rental and moved ourselves to Mike's grandparents' house in Logan. So, now we are staying here until we get a call saying that we can come sign the papers. We were supposed to be signing today, but that's not happening. Oh well! We're excited to move into the new house and happy to have such a great place to stay in the meantime.
The Short Story:
Our new house is finished! Yay! But, no we're not in it yet. We hope to sign all the paperwork this week and move in the day after we sign (whenever that is!). I'm just waiting for a call to let me know that the loan has been processed.
The Long Story:
Our house was not supposed to be finished until the end of June. But, in the middle of April the contractor said that he was ahead of schedule and that we would probably move by the end of May. This got us very excited. As it got closer we confirmed with him that he was still ahead of schedule and planned to be done the end of May. We had to give 30 days notice to the landlady of the rental house we were living in. We told her we would move out June 6th, figuring this would give us a week wiggle room in case the house wasn't done. I didn't want to be paying rent for too many days that we wouldn't actually be in the rental, so I was a anxious to give notice. A little too anxious, it turned out.
The end of May came and went and the house wasn't quite done (for various reasons). We asked the landlady to give us another week. She was great and said that would be fine. The house got finished (which felt like it took forever, but it was actually ahead of the original timeline) and now we are stuck waiting for the loan papers to go through.
In the meantime, we had to ask the landlady for a little bit more time because we had told her we would move by last Saturday (the 13th). She informed us that we couldn't really have any more time in the rental because she scheduled someone to come in and replace the floors in the kitchen and bathroom. She said we could store our stuff at the rental for a few days, but we obviously couldn't stay there with no functioning bathrooms. So, last Saturday we moved our stuff to the garage of the rental and moved ourselves to Mike's grandparents' house in Logan. So, now we are staying here until we get a call saying that we can come sign the papers. We were supposed to be signing today, but that's not happening. Oh well! We're excited to move into the new house and happy to have such a great place to stay in the meantime.
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