We officially closed on our house Friday :) I had in my head that we would be surrounded by a million people with stacks of paper to the ceiling and after we signed papers for 2 hours Ryan would whisk me away and carry me into our beautiful new home. Something like this:
How it really worked: we signed about 20 papers, it took about 30 minutes, we were handed the keys and told congratulations. After that, it was off to go back downtown to get our small Uhaul van. We then went to our friends house where we had to get stuff out of their storage room because they just so happened to be moving that weekend. After that, we went back to the south side to drop off these things into our beautiful home that not only had the For Sale sign still up in the yard, but they also didn't even have a SOLD sign on top and the lock box was still sitting on the front porch. Really Realtor who sold the house? We dropped the stuff off, waited 30 minutes to have dinner with my parents, went to get my car at the title company where I left it, went to drop off the Uhaul van then went to get Ryan's car. We finally got to go back to the apartment to sleep after that. WHEW.
Ryan doesn't know this yet, but we'll OFFICIALLY be living in our house this Sunday. I bought Ryan tickets to a show he wanted to go to in DC months ago, so we weren't going to back out of going to Fairfax just because we bought a house and needed to move. After Ryan got off work on Saturday, we went up to Fairfax and I hung out with Amanda while Ryan and Justin went to their show. Sunday Ryan & Justin entertained themselves at a gun show while Amanda and I took a nice long trip to Ikea. That place excites me and gives me a ton of anxiety all at the same time! We didn't get home until almost 8 last night and the next thing I know I was waking up to go to work this morning.
Since Ryan was off today, he was at the house today installing a new digital thermostat and put together the kitchen island. I'm proud of him for installing the thermostat all by himself! Here's a pic of the island he put together:
Obviously that isn't the exact one he put together, but you get the idea of what it looks like!
Our master bedroom is getting painted Wednesday and we'll hopefully have some living room furniture picked out by Friday!
I already can't wait to be settled and have it feel like HOME! :)
Hope everyone has a great week!!
