packing

3 days and counting....

We're getting very excited! Heard from the title company today, they said everything is going smoothly with the lender and they should finalize the paperwork tomorrow. This will give us time to look over things and make sure everything is perfect before Thursday. In the meantime, we have started packing! (Here you can see Ryan multi-tasking).

The living room is looking very bare!

We started in the guest bedroom and are basically done with it. Now we are using it to store the boxes of things from other rooms too. It's getting pretty crowded already...

We also started on some kitchen stuff tonight too. We are very proud to have emptied one cabinet completely with good progress in several others!

Ryan is about to sneeze here

Finally, we made the second BIG purchase of our marriage. (Our TV being the first and our home being the soon-to-be third and BIGGEST by far.) Never the less, we are very excited about our new refrigerator for our new house! It is stainless steel, double-door with the freezer on bottom. We got a great deal at the Sears Outlet store in Addison (we will definitely be shopping there for future appliance purchases - great selection and customer service)!

Must go pack a bit more before bed... Cowboys just took the lead. Whoop!

10k - check

We survived our first real race in our training on our way to our respective runs in December. We ran the Tour des Fleur at the Arboretum in Dallas right next to White Rock Lake. It was a great race, a nice very route and lots of fun vendors afterward! Ryan is training for the full White Rock Marathon so the 10k was a cinch for him. Luckily, he was very sweet and ran at my pace (I'm training for the half marathon, so at this point 6.2 miles was a big distance for me!) We completed the race in 1 hour and 2 minutes with no walk breaks - this was right at a 10 minute mile, which was my goal!

This is a picture of us and two of my colleagues after the race. (Check out more pictures of Ryan and I running here.) Maxim has a program that sponsors any races employees want to run as long as 5 or more people sign up - it's a great deal! Unfortunately, we didn't get everyone for this picture. All in all we had a great time and were very proud of our accomplishment! Plus, we got great running shirts for our training!

House Update:
We close on Thursday... oh my only 4 days away! We are so excited!! Our plan is to work on the house for the first two weeks (cleaning, painting, sprucing up the back yard, etc.) before we make the actual move. We're thinking mid-October for the big day (volunteers are welcome). We'll keep you posted, but assuming all goes well we should be homeowners as of September 29, 2011!!!

sold

Ok... not really. We are still in the option period and negotiating on the inspection addendum. But apparently the seller's realtors think it's as good as done because the SOLD sign was officially out today. (We are fine with this... and were so excited that we just had to take a picture!)

We met at the house with the contractor today to go over the bathroom addition. We are working with Scott from NewLeaf who we really like. We just talked things over today so he can give us a realistic estimate and we can begin to work with an architect on the design... very exciting! Things are definitely moving along.

Also, we got to meet our soon-to-be across the street neighbors tonight. They are a precious couple with a 6-month-old baby girl. We are getting super DUPER excited! September 29th get here soon!

inspection

a quick house update...

Great news on the inspection! Everything went very well, there were a few warped boards in the roof that we'll ask the sellers to fix. Also, the electrical box is also very old (which is to be expected as the house is very old) so we'll hopefully just split the cost of that as it is a potential fire hazard. Other than that there were really no major issues! The inspector said he was really surprised how well it inspected for a house built in the 50's. Yay!!

*This is us after our house passed the inspection! (We actually forgot to take a picture right after so I made Ryan go back with me later in the day to snap a quick photo.)

We're still super excited about the house and pumped to get this process moving along. We'll start meeting with general contractors soon to make a decision on the bathroom.