Yesterday, we bought our first pieces of furniture! We drove around on Saturday looking at different furniture stores and seeing what prices were and stumbled upon this store in Dublin that has great prices. After sleeping on it, we came back yesterday to look at the furniture one more time and bought a couch, love seat, coffee table, and side table for the entertainment room. They are special ordered so they won’t come for a few weeks but we are so excited!! We both forgot to take pictures of the furniture so it will just have to be a surprise when it gets here.

It’s looking like we won’t be moving in until the first or second week of January. Because of the slight delay from the termite discovery, the construction had to wait for that to be inspected but we should be back on track starting today. We don’t want to rush on moving in anyway since it will have lots of scents from having the floor refinished and the house sprayed for termites.

The remodel continues on. The closet has been drywalled and the kitchen has a set of shiny new wires. Unfortunately termites were found in the kitchen but they were small colony and are going to be terminated. Our appliances have been delivered and are waiting to be installed. Can’t wait for my fancy new fridge (ummm beer). The piles of leaves that were taking up residence in our front yard have packed their bags and moved. Hopefully the cabinets will be in by the end of next week ( fingers crossed and hoping for the best).

So the fun has begun at Gardella Drive. We left the keys here last night in hopes that the remodel fairies would visit. THEY DID! The once outdated mint green kitchen has been torn out (still some green residue on the walls though). The closet in the master bedroom also has a ‘small hole’ in it, we decided to knock that all out so we ( cough cough Emily cough) would have more closet space. It will be converted into a slightly larger master closet and slightly smaller guest one. But now looking at it I’m wanting to turn it into a master suite ;). Wishful thinking. I have loose measured the rooms so we can start picking out furniture this week and see what will fit. So all in all every thing is starting out great at the new abode. We will keep the posts coming throughout the process. Eventually we will put up some photographs too.

We got the keys last night!!!!! Ahh it was sooo exciting, we just can’t wait to actually move in.

We met up with our realtor Lloyd who gave us the keys and did one last walkthrough. He’s going to have the seller’s realtor get someone to blow off all the leaves on our front yard (you can see some in the bottom of the photo). We have a gimongous tree in the front yard that has shed about 2-3 inches of leaves. Pretty tree but lots of cleanup. 🙂 So that’s nice of him.

Today the demolition starts on the kitchen!!! We made a copy of the keys last night for our contractor so I think he’s in there right now ripping things apart. Woo hoo!

Just got the call from our Realtor – our loan has been funded and it will be recorded this afternoon. We’re picking up the keys tonight!!!! AHHH soooooooooo excited!!!

Time to celebrate!

We didn’t close today. We’ll just have to continue to be patient. Ugh.

We signed our loan documents tonight!!

CJ is in North Carolina so he had a Notary Public come to his hotel at 8PM to sign everything and I had come to my parent’s house at 6PM to sign all the documents. It took at least a half hour to go over everything.

I wanted to document this momentous occasion so I asked CJ to take a picture of him signing since we couldn’t do it together. This is the photo he sent me, he’s such a goof. I obviously wanted to see a picture of more than just his hand!

As far as next steps, we might have to wait for the lender to receive the hard copies of CJ’s signatures (which is a bit ridiculous, what year is it? 1800?) and then it will be funded. We could either close on Friday or Monday. With their track history, it will be Monday but we’ll see, maybe they’ll be speedy!

Our washer and dryer were delivered today!! We ended up getting the blue ones. We liked that color too so we’re happy with them.

We can’t wait to have a house to unpack them and start using them!!

The house still hasn’t closed. They keep asking for more info so we’ll see. It’s amazing that its already been 2 1/2 weeks since the house was approved and it still hasn’t closed.

Our washer and dryer are being delivered tomorrow! … To my parents house because we still don’t officially have the house.

The house hasn’t closed yet. The bank keeps moving out the closing date so we’ll see when it happens.

In the meantime, we’re choosing cabinet stains and granite. Below are some of our choices.

Can’t wait to see everything come together!!