pre-move fun

We borrowed a truck from Randi's uncle, so after the closing today I ran home and loaded up a few things to actually place some stuff in the house.  So then of course, I have to take pictures! haha..

The first load!!  Not a lot, but I was in a hurry.  Last photo will explain it better.

Just a living room shot (I was bored and waiting on Randi).

Shot of the kitchen with stuff in it!  Yea!

This is it!  Our first purchase(s) to enjoy the new house!  Of course you notice the three bar stools.  It took a lot of sit-testing to find just the right ones.  But if you look closer, you will see even a Taco Mayo bag!  New chairs and dinner on the first night of ownership!  WOO HOO!

we did it!!

Randi and myself our now among the world of home owners! Scary thought, huh? haha...   We are very excited.  As if you couldn't tell.  Here it is at 1:56 am and I am sitting here after finally tearing down the entertainment system and computer.  We can't wait to get moved in!

But with the good comes the bad sometimes.  Yep, so far - no highspeed internet has been found.  We have tried about every route we can find to get something besides dialup and so far haven't been lucky enough to.  We were probably about 30-50 feet shy of getting one wireless highspeed company that has antennas at the cement plant, which is close.  We have an order in to Dish to get Dish, home phone, and DSL.  However, I have a friend that lives closer to Ada than we do and he isn't able to get it, so I am pretty sure that we will be told the same.  But there are still a couple options open, so we are looking.

Long story short...  I need highspeed connection for both work and also for my online classes.  Not too big on having to go back to dialup.  So we may just not have internet at the house for a bit.  So that means the posts may even be less than usual... lol...

So with that in mind, I have a couple other posts that I am going to cram in here tonight, and then I better get to bed.  Jake is going to come help me get some stuff moved tomorrow.  So it will be a busy day!

by the way, the garage sale is over...

Yea, kind of got list for a bit there, huh? haha..  The garage sale went pretty good.  We made a lot more than I thought we would have for our old junk.  The bad part is there was a few things that are really worth the money, but people didn't buy those.  So I think we are going to move some of that to the new house, wait a bit, and then have another garage sale.  That way we will be closer to Ada too!  Might get more traffic.

day 1 of the sale

Well, we did pretty good today.  We managed to get rid of our dining room table and chairs, the old green recliner, my old book shelf (from around 1992 or so), my old Sega Dreamcast with the games and accessories, and then a few of the baby clothes.  We were hoping to see more of the clothes gone, but that is ok.

We also didn't have a hit on our pull behind yeard spreader that hooks up to a riding lawn mower.  I kind of thought we might.  But we did have the head coach of the Roff baseball team stop by and look at it, but said it was too high.  But I figure with it being brand new, never used,  and kept inside since we had it, I just have a hard time coming down much on it.

But we did have a few people that said they would try to be back tomorrow to look at clothes.  We did have a couple ladies stop by that said they had friends that were pregnent but none knew yet what they were having.

Anyway, 7am tomorrow is the beginning of day 2.  So we will just have to see what that brings I guess.

the big sale

Well Randi and her mom spent about 1/2 the day today getting everything out of our house and into the garage for the big garage sale that we are kicking off Friday morning at 7am.

I would have never dreamed we had the amount of stuff that is in the garage!  Our garage is almost packed just with junk that was (somehow) stored inside our house. haha..  And we still have a book shelf and kitchen shelf, recliner and kitchen table and chairs to put out there!  I don't think we will have a problem getting rid of stuff though.  Our landlord's daughter and her husband live across the street from us.  They just had a new baby several months ago.  So when Randi and her mom where out at the end of the drive today she came and Randi invited her over to go through the baby stuff if she wanted any, and she bought quite a bit!

Anyway, here are some photos of the old garage.  But now some things in there aren't going to be for sale, like my trusty Cub Cadet mower, but I just couldn't leave it out over night, so we had to pull somethings in for the night.

    

Also, we had made signs about "Free cat to a good home" to try and give our little guy, Lucky, away in hopes that moving to a new home with new carpet and no pets having ever been it, might help Dylan's breathing.  Well Randi barely got a sign hung up down at the gas station on the corner and a lady behind her read it and insisted on seeing the cat.  So her and her little boy followed Randi to the house, took 1 look at him and she said she had to have him.  She had a cat for many years and then one day it up and disappeared and she has never seen him since.  She was really nice and we visited for quite some time with her and got the feeling that she would really take care of him.  So we loaded him up, let the kids say goodbye and off he went.

So all that took place on Wednesday night. Well, shortly after the lady left with Lucky, my little Kaitlyn looked at me and said "Daddy, I want a puppy for Christmas."!!  She is just too cute!

house update

Well, we are still waiting to hear final word on exactly when we are closing.  All the stuff in the contract say that we are close on or before the 21st, but I guess there was some delay in getting the warranty needed for the FHA portion of the loan, so now it looks like we may be cutting it very, very, very close.

But we are still looking good they tell us.  We had to go in this afternoon and sign a couple more documents.  I will need to do some wrist exersices before we close though, from what I hear.  A lot of signing your name over and over again! haha...  But we can't wait!

we are good to go!

We just received word from our Realtor this morning that according to the FHA underwriters and the bank, "we are good to go"!  So the sellers Realtor is going to start the title process and work with the sellers to get the 1 and 10 year warranties setup and everything.  So we are one step closer!