Things are Changing...

Boy how time files. . . I cannot believe it has been 4 months since the last time I posted.  If anyone is still reading, here is my excuse: while we were moving in I misplaced my camera, so I could not take and progress photos.  Then, I got out of the habit, and well, just did not post.

In the coming weeks, I hope to show you a little bit of what we have been doing (and still hope to accomplish).  Today I will show you our biggest project: baby karate kid.  ETA: August 11th

Moving In

So, I have lots of excuses for why I have not posted since we closed.   Mainly they are about the lack of internet at our house and mis-packing my camera.  Now the camera has been found unpacked and the internet has been hooked up; so, without further delay I'll start where I left off.

Here's a picture of us in all of our closing glory.

Overall, closing went as expected.  We signed our name until we were blue in the face and in exchange we were given keys to our house and sent on our merry way.  And luckily enough the keys fit into the locks of this beauty.

First Things First

So, we finally closed...now what!?  Well, Jordan's aunt was in town for the football game, so we went to Chuy's then dragged her over to our new home to show it off.  We had movers scheduled for the following morning, but I tried my hardest to figure out how to spend that night in our new place.  In the end, it just did not make sense, so we spent our first night as homeowners in our apartment.

Bright and early Saturday morning, we picked up the truck, met the movers, and convinced my dad to do do this to our new house:

We thought there was no better way to turn this house into our home than cut a hole into the wall and install a doggie door!  We had a few problems with the electrical wiring, but the end result is a couple of worn out pups.

Closing

As closing neared, we tried to get everything in order -- without jinxing the closing.  So, we continued to pack, but did not notify anyone of our new address -- just in case we did not close.  

On the top of our list of things to do was to begin the draining of our bank account and get a cashier's check. for the Title Company.  This payment equaled the amount of our sales price and fees charged by the mortgage and title company and prepayments for taxes and our first month's mortgages less the mortgage amount and money we had already put into escrow and the amount the seller had agreed to contribute to closing.  A number that I would think would be easy to calculate once all the moving parts have been nailed down.  I was wrong.  We did not receive this number until 11:30 a.m. before our 4:00 p.m. closing. 

 After we received the final payment amount, we headed over to the house to go through a final walk through of our house.  At this meeting we went back through the house with the builder to check and see if all the things we had marked as needing attention had been fixed.  Almost everything had been fixed with the exception of a little bit of painting and rolling the grass, which will be done after the yard dries out a little bit (it's still wet from all the rain we had the week of closing).

Then it was off to the bank and back to work for a couple of hours before closing.  Since closing was taking place up north at such a late hour on a Friday afternoon, we headed that direction extremely early.  Once at the title company, we sat around a long time -- the title company was running late.  Eventually, we were permitted to subject ourselves to 30 years of servitude in exchange for some keys!