Our Home Down The Hill

On Wednesday, July 21, we spent the afternoon signing our loan documents and making it official!  It took a couple of days to finalize but we were able to get our keys on Friday.

Chad is already hard at work!

Wow!  We've been in escrow now for 30 days!  And my, what a busy 30 days it has been! 

Everything is still on track to close by the end of July.  We just can hardly wait to get the keys and get started on all our projects! 

In the meantime, I'll be packing and moving because my lease at my apartment in Sacramento ends July 31!  If you're free in the evenings during the week of July 26 and feel like moving some boxes and furniture, let me know! 

Escrow day 17 and we've survived so far... well, barely.  Whoever knew that home buying was this stressful of an experience should have given us a heads up!   We've hit a couple small bumps in the road, but we're still optimistic that it's all going to work out just fine.  But, that's beside the point, we do have some good news to report...

Today we learned an important first time home buyer's lesson - take advantage of holiday weekend sales!!  We checked appliances off of our "things to buy" list this Independence Day weekend.  Thank you very much, Sears!

We went with stainless.  It's going to look great in the kitchen once we refinish the cabinets and put some nice new polished knobs and pulls on the doors and drawers.  That's all a project at the top of our list - in fact, it's above "Move in" on the list.  So hopefully it will all be done by the time you come over for your first visit!  Or, if you're one of our lucky friends or family members, you'll get to see it in progress while you help with the work!  Which reminds me, we're lining up helpers already - so if your weekends are clear in August - pencil us in!

We hope you're enjoying a great holiday weekend!