The Big Move!

Moving day!  The weekend we moved was jam packed of activities.  After we closed on Friday, Frank had flight lessons and Jess had class (for her trip to China).  We all stayed at the condo that night, since it was going to be late when we all got home.

Saturday we spent at the new house doing some heavy duty cleaning.  We focused on the kitchen and lower level, since that's where we'd be living at first.  I brought a slew of supplies and they were based on the bar downstairs...

Here's Frank and Kevin setting up the rug shampoo-er.  We did that with all the carpet downstairs since we'd be using it when we first moved it.  We didn't do the upstairs, since those will be ripped out anyway.

 After all the cleaning, we needed a bite to eat and a water break!

We were at the house for about 11 hours when all was said and done.  Since it was cinco de mayo that day, we celebrated a successful day with some margaritas afterwards.

The next day (Sunday) was the big move.  We hired movers which were definitely a great deal and well worth it.  Our tree was still in full bloom and beautiful!

The whole move took about 5 hours.  We cleaned out the final bits from our condo, and were all set!  Let the renovations begin!

- Jess

Closing Day!

The day finally came... we closed on our house! It took us about 2 full years to find out house, but now that we closed and are in we both know it was well worth the wait!

Closing went pretty smoothly. We met with our realtor at our house and did a final walk through. All seemed to check out and there were no new damages or issues. After finishing up the walk through, we all headed over to the office where we would close, which was close by. Frank and I went through the pile of paperwork, "signing our life away" as he likes to call it. We finished all of the paperwork in about an hour and a half. Then, the lawyer looked to us and asked for our down payment check. We were boggled since the bank was supposed to wire the money over earlier that day. The lawyer called our bank and turns out, the bank forgot to send the wire!! To make a long story short, we had to run to the bank branch down the street and get a cashier's check for our down payment.

Once we turned over the check, the house was officially ours!! We were both very excited. Here's our first steps in our new home as official homeowners!

 

The tree in the front of our new home was also in full bloom that day, so we snapped a few shots of that beauty too.

So that's pretty much it... now we're in and happy to be on our way to our dream home!

- Jess