New House and Wedding Plans

We love our new house! We got the keys at 7:00 pm last night and I was so, so happy! Mat and I were jumping around and we just absolutely love it. It is going to be so perfect for us. We had our families come over and meet us there so they could go on the first official tour. They loved it, of course! After they left we walked around again and then decided that we had to go to Home Depot and walk around. We finally left there at 9:30 and we hadn't even had dinner! So we ended up eating about 10 and we were both ready to fall asleep. We have all kinds of ideas of things we want to do while we live in our house, but we know we can't do it all at once. I did tell Mat that I felt like when you buy a house you should get a big chunk of money to buy new furniture or to work on the yard or whatever you want! I don't know who would do this, but maybe the banks?? Hee hee. Well, I like the idea anyway!

AND we got a wedding photographer! We went to see her last week and I loved her. Mat really liked her, but he hadn't looked through as many local websites as I had. So he wanted to look and maybe talk with a couple other photographers. Well, he spent his whole day off on Monday looking at websites and only came up with one that he wanted to talk with. But they already were booked on our date, so Cristi it is! Here is her blog that has a lot of her work from this summer: http://photosbycristidame.blogspot.com/ and her website is: http://www.cristidamephotography.com/cdpMain.html. We are really happy! She is fun and young and exactly what we were hoping for. Hooray!

So tonight we are going to do a little cleaning (although it is pretty clean already) and maybe bring a couple boxes over. We know for sure we need to get a couple things - like a shower curtain! So we'll probably try to run a couple errands too. We are having sandwiches every night this week so we can do this kind of thing. I can't wait to get some pictures on our blog, but we'll be tearing down our computer soon so it might be a few weeks.

I wish I didn't have to work for a living! I could be moving and decorating right now. :)

Our New House!

As promised, some pictures of our new house! Of course, this isn't our furniture or anything, but you get the idea. We'll put up more after we get moved in.

We love it!!!!!!!!!!!

Who Knew?

Mat and I found a house!! We already put in an offer and they accepted! So now all we have left to do is the inspection tonight and hopefully all will go well with it. We really can't believe that it has happened this fast. We are so excited and totally fell in love with our little house the minute we walked up the sidewalk. This is so exciting for us to be buying our first house together! We will probably close at the beginning of August. We have our work cut out for us for sure this month.

I'll try to get some pictures up as soon as I can. Maybe tomorrow since we have the day off for the 4th of July.

It was pretty surprising that we found something we both loved so soon! We went on Sunday with our realtor to look at houses. We had given her a list of 15 houses we wanted to see, thinking that was way too many, but she had called them all and we actually went to see all of them! The 6th house we pulled up to was our house! The street is lined with all sorts of great trees and all of the houses are in great condition. We walk up the sidewalk and I already love it! Mat was holding my hand and looked at me and squeezed it, which I think meant he loved it too! We walked in and kind of wandered around and just loved everything! It's a cute little two bedroom, one bathroom house with a great backyard! We are planning on lots of barbeques out there! So we ended up leaving and then looked at the rest of the houses, which of course were nothing compared to our little house. So we went back to look at it again and decided that we just had to have it!

We got the call yesterday that we did get the house and all they wanted to change on our offer was the closing date! Hurrah for us! So now that's where we are. Mat and I are already starting to make floorplans in our heads and decide what will look best in what place. This is just so fun and I can't believe it still!

Besides that, I did go trying on wedding dresses with my mom. It was a lot of fun, but I didn't find anything this time around. I think I have it narrowed down a lot more to what I want, so we'll hopefully have better luck next time around! No other wedding plans made yet. It's now less than a year away! ARGH! I can't wait though. It's going to be so wonderful.

Hope everyone has a wonderful and safe 4th of July!

One Year from Today...

Mat and I will be getting married! Now it seems like it isn't so far away. Tomorrow, I can say "in less than a year" we'll be getting married! Panic time! Just kidding. We have lots of time, so I am not too worried yet.

I have plans to go shopping on Wednesday with my mom for my wedding dress! I am really looking forward to that and really hope we find something or at least get some ideas. I don't really know what I want yet, so maybe that will be good when I start looking.

Tonight Mat and I are meeting with a mortgage lender to see what we can qualify for as far as a loan goes. I am really excited to be moving forward with looking for a house. We both are really ready to have our own home and get out of the apartment living. So this is our first step and then we might be able to spend some time looking online for houses this weekend. We aren't working on Monday in hopes that we could actually go see some houses. But it is kind of last minute, so we may not be able to. But we can at least do some driving around to see some of the houses that we find online.

Saturday is my sister's baby shower! I think we are pretty much ready to go. There are a couple last minute items we need, but other than that all systems are go.

That's about it for now. I'm so excited for both the wedding and looking for a house. If only Mat and I didn't have to work anymore. Wouldn't that be great?