Month: March 2010

So we haven't closed yet, it was supposed to be yesterday...  Hopefully it'll be Tuesday or Wednesday, it's been postponed because the roof needs to be finished in order for the deal to go through.  It's a pain, but it'll be worth it soon. I'm signing off the net soon, and won't be back much until things are settled.  I'll probably be online a couple times next week, and then occasionally when we come back to my Mom's house to visit.  We're not getting a landline and internet until the house is settled, I know myself well enough to know that the house organizing and decorating progress will go much more slowly if I have the net to distract me. For anyone interested it looks like Michael will be baptized…

I spent the day yesterday working at the house.  Sweet Kevin stayed here at my parents with the kids all day while I worked. We got Michael and Aiden's room painted Solaria.  It's a really bright yellow.  I waver between wishing I hadn't picked something quite so bright and saturated and loving it.  I choose one shade darker at the last minute because there wasn't much contrast between the trim color (lemon chiffon), and my original pick. It's fun and definitely will be great for the boys.  Our plan is to paint the trim, closet doors, and inside of their door a much lighter yellow from the same paint chip, and then eventually do a Lego mural on one of the walls, and I ordered a red vinyl quote saying…

We're going tomorrow morning at 10, we'll provide lunch, the plan is painting and yard work! If you want to come PLEASE come!  I'm offering a photo session in trade for help. We finally have water at the house!  Yay!  We can now wash our hands and the paint brushes!  Hehe!  We've got one room primed, but nothing else done!  This is a bigger project than I expected.  I had Aiden come along for my last real work trip, and well, that was a bust, I spent ALL my time there undoing his "help" including drizzled paint on the carpet...  I really wishes I would have just left the little TV over there...  Thankfully Dallin was there with me and finished the project that I went to do in the…

OK, not yet, but we did get the go ahead to spend some time at the house cleaning, gardening, and painting (only the rooms with current bizarre paint colors so far). Thursdays good news was getting things through the underwriting department, so now we're waiting on the appraisal, and Kevin's job to reply that he is indeed a real employee and making what he claims to make.  Also we need to get an estimate to see what his student loan payments are, so we can be sure to budget appropriately... Friday brought the bad news that the house is indeed in a flood plane (there's a canal running the length of the side of the property) which requires flood insurance, so we'll need to be acquiring that and paying it,…