Just about settled in

We've been really busy getting everything moved into our new place! It has been a lot of fun unpacking everything and finally being in a house. Apartment living had gotten old to both of us and we were really ready for this.

I took off the end of the week after closing and took about 5 van loads of stuff over, with Audrey's help in the evenings to start unpacking. Then Sunday we got the Riata moving truck to get the rest of the big furniture moved.

We've also had a few projects - we already repainted one whole room, chopped down an ugly cedar "tree" in the front yard, and did some yard work around the tree beds.

Here was our painting job, which we're pretty proud of, for a first attempt at home-improvement :-)

Before - their kid's room with neon green & bright blue alternating walls:



After - we're not quite sure how to describe the color. Kinda a blue-gray-green. Behr calls it "Pinedale Shores":





Also, yesterday, while outside, a bunch of the neighbors stopped by to say hi, and they seem like a fun crowd, so that was great. They all have kids, so every day there are hide and seek games and fun stuff like that happening in the cul-de-sac (today it looks like it's soccer).

Anyway, that's about it for now. We gotta figure out what to do for dinner. We're lost without our Riata grills.... we really need to find one since grilling is just about our only means of cooking for ourselves!

T-minus 5 days!

Wow, been a while since we posted....

We are in the home stretch - closing on the house in 5 days. I can't wait. I'm excited to start getting things moved over and start spending some time there. I'll be taking Wed-Fri off work to start moving and getting things ready

Audrey's just excited to have me start painting..... in my opinion, the neon green and blue room looks just fine as it is. :-)

We're a bit stressed though, because we still have a lot of packing to do to get everything ready, still need a fridge, and there's still the wedding planning we've been putting off (cake, honeymoon, tuxes, invitations). We're still keeping busy with other things though, going to Dallas tonight and staying the weekend for a friend's wedding.

We're officially under contract!!

We came to an agreement with the current homeowners for the house on Walnut! This week we have the inspection, which is always a nerve racking part of the home buying process for all first time home buyers.....according to HGTV :-)

So hopefully everything goes smoothly with that. We're really excited, and happy to finally have found a house that we're going to be happy in.

On the wedding front, we're trying to figure out our cake. We went and talked to one lady already, and we're thinking about checking out another one or two. The problem with the cake is that neither of us feel too strongly about anything we really want - it's not something that's too big of a deal for either of us, as long as it looks and tastes good.

We still need to figure out our honeymoon, though... feeling behind on that planning. Any suggestions on where to go? We're thinking Caribbean.

Maybe this could be our new digs?

Here's the house we're looking at now. Pics aren't great - Aud took them as we walked through, and the camera's battery was dying :-)
http://picasaweb.google.com/rdesjardins/WalnutCv

We'll see how this one turns out for us, it has just about everything we've been looking for. Audrey's going to take another look at it tomorrow after work and if everything goes well, we'll see.....!

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We do.... still looking though