the BIG move

Scott is finally home :) After being in Idaho for 13 days Scott "surprised" me on Tuesday night. Or he thought it was a surprise....I had to work late on Tuesday and was in bed almost asleep around midnight. Then all of a sudden I heard the front door knob jiggling....next thing I know I was on my feet ready to fight someone. All of a sudden I hear "SURPRISE!!!!" I started shaking and crying and told him to never do that again. Scott was a bit confused and said he didn't really see the surprise going the way it did....maybe he shouldn't surprise me at midnight again :)

Wednesday the MOVE started.....

Scott spend Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday moving. He had help from a good friend, Chris. They got most of the apt moved to the house!!! Saturday we made one trip to get the kitchen stuff and have about one more trip to do in the future. Now it is getting things organized and making it HOME!!!

Friday evening we had a girls night and boys night. We met at a friends house....the girls stayed there and carved pumpkins, chatted, and drank spiked apple cider. The boys went for craw-fish and wings and then out on the town. It was nice to get out for a few hours and not think about moving or packing/unpacking.

Saturday we went to the apartment and packed up the kitchen and did some laundry. We are hoping to have everything out of the apartment this week.

Sunday we went to the Orlando Home Show...our Realtor had a few extra tickets and sent them to us. It wasn't has helpful has we thought it was going to be but we did get some help on carpet (our big project). We are looking to re carpet the house soon. We then went to Lowes and Home Depot to price check carpet. The rest of Sunday was spent unpacking and organizing the house. We pretty much have the kitchen, our room, and both bathrooms done (that's what I think now anyways...hahaha).

It was a very productive weekend...I am now ready for a LONG work week...I am going to be working next weekend....

Another Monday...

I have officially decided there are not enough hours in the day and I am getting old....hahaha!

I have been getting ready for the "big" move this weekend. The plan is to move into the house this weekend :) I could not be more excited since I have been going back and forth on a every other day basis. (It sounded easier than it is). Needless to say its been a long few weeks....

Scott has been in Idaho for 11 days now and we just got the word he will be home Wedn!!!!

So I have been doing everything I can to have the apt packed and the house ready... and I am sure most of you can guess I am stressing out and putting WAY too much into both things. As Scott, my mom and my dad have told me several times it doesn't all have to be done today. Let's be honest though that is just ME...it should have been done yesterday!!!

I have lists everywhere...I have stuff everywhere....Living at 2 places is the WORST idea by far! I don't recommend it to anyone. I have however accomplished a ton:

- Cable is working at the house
- Carpets got cleaned and we have decided we are getting new carpet in the TV room and front room.
- TV room is painted and ready for new carpet and furniture
- Apt is half packed....its a bit overwhelming and hard to know where to start

While working on all of this there have been some crazy things:

- Washier machine at the apt broke and I couldn't to any laundry for a over a week (didn't realized the washier was so valuable until I didn't have it). I have been using a beach towel to try off because the shower towels are all dirty....hahaha
- I got rear ended last week...I have come to the conclusion that the worst drivers are men and people in FL. This was my second rear ending in about 4 months. I am fine and their are minor damages to the car. I am getting the car appraised and taking it in hopefully today and/or tomorrow.
- I got a ticket at the accident for not having my car insurance with me....YES we have car insurance but we just changed it because of the house. So now I have to go in and take care of that....which should be fine tomorrow :)

Oh yeah and I have still been working and doing my daily things....I really need to start listening and realizing I don't have to have everything done today!!!

Did I mention I am more than ready for Scott to be home :)

I will start posting pics when we have everything in the house and we are not sleeping on the futon mattress on the floor...hahaha!!

Our First House

It has been a whirlwind the past week for us. I had to make myself sit down for a few minutes to fill everyone in…as if most of you have not heard….

WE OWN A HOUSE

I am sitting in the local coffee shop writing this because we have yet to move in and don’t have much at the house right now. We do however spend as much time as we can and love it.

Long story short….

Some of you know we started our house hunt about 6 months ago thinking we would take advantage of the $8000 credit. After searching for awhile we decided to put the search on hold and wait till I got a job. July 7^th I started my job and July 8^th Scott started his own house search…haha :)

Mid August we decided it was time for us to really start our hunt again and start it fresh – new realtor and all. Which was by far the best thing we could have done. This time we had a realtor team (husband and wife) and they went above and beyond for us. Even offering to go to the bank with my when Scott was out of town.

We found “the one” (felt like I was wedding dress shopping again)! 3 bedrooms, 2 bath, 1800 square feet, conservation lot (wooded/government land behind our grass line that will not be built on), 2 car garage, mud room (I was told in FL you call them laundry rooms), community pool, front porch and everything we could imagine.

We put our offer in, it got accepted and we shut our mouths - telling our parents and not many more. We decided we didn’t want to jinx it. The house was bank owned which means that at any time in the process the bank could have called it off. We didn’t want to get our hopes up just in case – Scott wouldn’t even let me talk paint colors, décor, nothing. He was pretty funny about it.

Last Wednesday (omg its been over a week already) we sat at the closing table for about 2 hours signing a book of papers. Then walked out owning a house!!!!!!!!!

So, last weekend I spent deep cleaning from top to bottom and Scott spent doing “manly” chores. We got our butts whooped on Saturday – we were in bed by 9. Sunday we were both really sad that we had to leave to go back to the apt. We were ready to move in then.

We spent a few nights there through the week finishing up some projects.

This weekend is a list of some more chores…..the cable guy is coming out (we get free cable in our neighborhood) and we are getting the carpets cleaned for sure. Then we get to decided were we want to go from there.

We are so excited to make this our home and have so many ideas of what we want to do.

In the midst of all this house stuff Scott had a Birthday!!! We did spend some time celebrating!!!

We will continue to keep you all updated on what we do with the house and how we make it ours :)