30 Days to Being Thankful {Day 4} - My Husband

Day 4: I'm thankful for my loving husband. 

We have been through so much and I couldn't think of anyone better I would want to spend my life with. He has put up with me for 9 years and I love him more everyday. He's my best friend and I can always count on him being there for me! I love you honey!!

Our Wedding Day 9/25/2010

Halloween Party 10/27/2012

We are Officially Homeowners!!!

I know I have been MIA from blogging lately. We have had so much going on with packing, closing on our house and getting the new house all ready and moved in.

I'm very happy to say we ended up closing on our house 5 days earlier then we thought! We were so excited and couldn't wait to get into our new home. The day of signing was July 26th. It wasn't as bad as people made it out to be, it took us about an hour to sign all the paperwork and call it ours!

After we signed we headed over to the house to celebrate and have some wine. We had a couple of our friends meet us there to share the wonderful moment!

We couldn't wait to get into our home and have it all set up so we started painting right away. That Saturday the 28th we started right in trying to get stuff done. We got 2 rooms done that day/night the living room and half bath. We worked all weekend on our house and it was so fun and I couldn't be more happy to do it!

We ended up taking off work from July 31st through August 13th to paint, move and get settled. We got everything painted and moved in by I would say Thursday the 2nd. We have everything pretty much set up like we want it. There are a couple rooms that aren't done yet, (1) is the spare bedroom and the other is my craft/photography room, so nothing major and we can take our time on those. I will be getting a new desk so once my desk is in and set up I will start getting my room set up!

I have pictures of our house before and after we painted so I will be posting those once my room and pictures are workable. :)

The last part of our time off we went to Arkansas for the weekend with another couple. It was just a little vacation to get away. We rented a cabin on top of the mountains and just hung out all weekend. It was so nice and no one around us! I will post more about our trip later with pictures.

We are now back to work and getting back to our normal routine. :)

2 weeks To Go....

The day is arriving slowly but surely!! Today marks exactly 2 weeks till we get to close on our very first house! We both are so excited about this and can't wait. We are getting so antsy awaiting the day to come!

I have been slowly getting our house packed up and we have boxes everywhere. We are are getting cramped with all the boxes stacked up in our dining room. LOL. Normally I would be freaking out b/c of so much stuff in one room but right now I don't care b/c I know we will be in our house very shortly!

I have been very busy lately with the house move coming up, Wedding pictures to edit and I did a birthday shoot last Saturday so I have those to edit as well. My plan to have all the pictures done by the time we close so I won't have to worry about them while we are trying to move!

So if I become MIA for awhile it's b/c I'm trying to get everything done before July 31st! I'm hoping I can the wedding pictures done by the end of this week. The birthday pictures shouldn't take but a couple of days to go through once I get started on them!

Wish my luck on getting everything ready to go! :)

Count Down to Closing Day....

Can you believe it's already July!!! I couldn't have wished this month any faster...why you ask....This month we will be closing on our house!! We both are very excited and can't wait to move it and make it our place together. We will be closing July 31st and that day can't get here fast enough. 

Friday evening we drove by our house and it finally had the SOLD sign on it. We were so happy to see that. Of course I was so exciting and giddy that I forgot to take a picture of it. But don't worry I'm sure we will be buy again and I will take one. 

Shane and I have been so excited that we found our house! We can't wait to move in and get settled. I'm anxious to see how the dog acts in the backyard since she will be able to go out without a leash. Hopefully she will be excited and run out here energy. LOL 

We have been doing some shopping for the house. We both have gotten the shopping bug and have been shopping like every weekend. Weather we buy something or not we still like to go out and see what we want. I have many wish list going of stuff we want for the house. :) We did buy a couple big items that he will need, well I guess 1 was given to us by my grandpa and that was a lawn mower, the other thing he got was a weed eater.  Now he is set and ready to start taking care of our lawn (well of course when it decides to grow again and not be dead) Haha. We also got some other things for the house. I'm going to try and see if I can post everything we got for decorating that house later. I just love all the new stuff we got and can't wait to have it all put up in the house! 

We have been counting down the days on our phone!! Since this day is almost over I'm going to go ahead and put up the days left as of tomorrow!!

Inspection Time...

The next step in our house buying process is getting the inspections done. There are 3 inspections we needed to have done The whole house, chimney and termites.

Monday morning at 9am we had our whole house inspection. I was very nervous about this inspection. Our inspection guy was really nice and deatiled about evertying. The inspection went pretty well. Nothing major is wrong with the house just some little repairs and safety items that need to be done. Nothing that is going to scare us away. LOL. I mean every house is going to have stuff wrong with it weather it be big items or just some little stuff that doesn't take much to fix. There was one major concern during the inspection, which was the AC unit. It wasn't working correctly the air coming out wasn't as cool as it should be. We learned yesterday that AC unit has been repaired and is working now. So that was a plus and one thing off the list we need to ask for. We won't be worry about this for now. We got lucky with only finding little items that needed to be take care of. I felt so much better after this inspection.

We had our last 2 inspections yesterday at 3:00pm. The termite guy was finished by the time we got to the house. He did find termites outside under the chimney area but that's the only place. So we are definitely going to be asking for the seller to treat them.
We also had the chimney done too and there's nothing wrong it. So that is a good thing!

We are meeting with the realtor tonight to go over everything and write up the stuff we want done before mvoing in. So we will see what the seller comes back with.

Wish us luck now more waiting, Fun fun! LOL

I still feel pretty good about our house and buying it! I can't wait to get this last part of waiting from the seller done then we will just be waiting to move in! We are so ready to be in our house. :)

Our first Dining Room Table!

As many of you know when buying a house comes all the fun items you have to buy to go in it. So last night I wanted to go shopping to get an idea of what style and price on dining room tables. We headed out after Shane got home from work to Furniture Deals. We got our living room set that and we loved it and got it for a good price so we went back for the table.

The idea of tonight was NOT to buy anything but to look around and get ideas for when we were ready to purchase. But that's not exactly how our night played out....We got there and started looking around and we found one that we both liked. We started looking at the price so we had an idea of what we were going to pay and noticed the table was pretty half price and the sale ended Monday plus an extra 10% off the sale price. So it was an awesome deal! Shane and I walked around a little more and talked about what we should do and we both decided that we should buy it now! Only because in the long run we would be saving ourselves about $800 with buying it now rather then waiting and it not be on sale.

We are both very happy about our table and can't wait to use. I think we made the right decision on buying now! So we now officially have our very first dining room table!! I'm so exciting to eat on it. hehe

This is the picture off the website. This table is an extension table so it sets 8 people. We got the everything table, extension and 8 chairs.

It's Official!!!

Thursday night we went back and looked at house #7 that we both really liked. We still loved the house and we decided to put in an offer that night. Later that night we meet with the Realtor and got our offer wrote up. It was so exciting and I was so nervous. He said we should hear something back within 24-48 hours. Friday at work I was mess thinking about the house and if they were going to except our offer or not. We were heading to dinner Friday night and we got the call saying the seller came back with a counter offer, so we countered them back and now we were just waiting to hear back. It was about an hour or so later and Shane had left to go pick up something. I was sitting at home going crazy waiting for an answer. Shane came home and he says are you still going crazy, I was like are you kidding me yes, he says well you shouldn't be anymore we just bought a house they accepted our offer. I was so excited I jumped off the couch and into his arms and started crying. This was so exciting and I couldn't believe it was actually happening. :) Now we just have to get through inspection and we will be in the clear! 

SO IT'S OFFICIAL WE ARE UNDER CONTRACT ON OUR FIRST HOUSE!!!! 

Here is the link to see more pictures of  our houseOur House.

I will keep everyone updated on our process through buying our house!

We both are super exciting and can't wait to be in our first house!

House Searching Round 2 & 3....

The house search continues this week with round 2 then round 3....I posted last week about our search beginning and getting to go out in person for the time! We didn't have much luck that round out we said no to all 4 houses. We were ok with that because they weren't meant for us. :)
This week we headed out Tuesday evening to look at 4 more. That night all the houses were nice but we said no to all but 1 of them but of course they all had good reasons of to why we didn't want them.
The 1 that we both really really liked has been on our mind since we left it! So our realtor said that we needed to go out and look at a couple more to make sure we didn't miss anything. Last night we went and look at 2 more houses and said no to both of them. Tonight we are going back to our favorite house to have a 2nd look and we are taking Shane's dad with us to have another set of eyes! I'm really excited to see this house! Maybe this is the one!!! We will find out tonight. :) So stay toned on news to come....

Here are pictures of the house we have seen in the last few days

House #5
The reason we said no to this one was...The street that it set on was a through street and at the stop light was 2 schools then a softball complex, so we didn't want to have to deal with traffic all the time. Another reason was because the back yard and big slop to it and we didn't like that.

 Entry way when you walk in the front door.

 Living area was a nice size all our stuff would fit and have room left.

 Dining area was a little small if we wanted to have our family over.

 Kitchen was decent.

 Backyard was a big no for us!

 Basement area

 Another angel of the basement.

House #6
This house was very nice and the location was good. Neighbor was nice. The one big reason for saying No to this one was the backyard. Even though it seems silly it's not. We want to be able to hand out back when we have people over and let the dog out. This yard had a big slop in and that really turned us off.

 Living area was a great size for everything we had and would still have room.

Fireplace was really nice!

 
 Dining area not a bad size we could make it work to have our family over for dinner

 Kitchen was awesome! I really loved this kitchen! The walk-in pantry was amazing as well!

 Another view of the living area

 Backyard

 Entry way

 Basement

House #7

THIS IS THE ONE WE LOVE!!! There are a few down falls to the house we don't care for but we can't get everything right. LOL. The driveway had a little hill to it but nothing to bad to scare us off. Shane said it isn't bad and we can maintain when it snows to be able to get in and out. The basement isn't finished but we are ok with that. It's something we can do down the road if we want too. We are going tonight for round 2 of looking so hopefully we still like it!

The outside of the house was just painted last week!

 Formal living area

 Kitchen was decent and had lots of corner space and plenty of cabinet space.

 Dining area was a good size. We would just need a table to put there. LOL

 Backyard was good. Love that it's fenced so the dog can run around and plenty of space for entertaining!
 2nd living are

 Basement

House #8
We said no to this house as well for a couple different reasons. One the upstairs only had 1 bathroom that was shared by the master bedroom and guest when you had them over. The 2nd bath was located in the basement. We didn't like that. In the kitchen/dining room there was a little step up to go from the dining area to the kitchen that was weird. The flooring in the dining area was coming up as well so you had soft stops when you were walking around.

Last night we went and looked at 2 more house to make sure these weren't something we would like instead of house #7.

So this is House #9 that we looked at. It was a nice big house but as we got down to the basement there was a lot of cracking in the floor and we didn't like that at all. Not something I would want to deal with in our first home. No fun. LOL

House #10 was ranch style house. It was update very nice and we loved the hard woods in there. But the bedrooms were tiny and the kitchen didn't have a lot of counter or cabinet space. The deck and backyard was awesome! The deal breaker on this house was that it didn't have a basement.

That ends the house hunting round 2 & 3. Now tonight we will go back and look at house #7 and see what it holds for us....:)