What a difference a weekend makes!

Here are some pictures from our first weekend as homeowners. We were super productive and we are so happy with the way things are looking. Our goal was to get the master bedroom, master bathroom, living room, kitchen and dinning room all painted before we moved in. All these rooms are painted! YAY US!

Master bedroom before:

Master bedroom after:

My parents came by with a new ceiling fan for our master bedroom. They are the best! My dad was even nice enough to put it up so Mike could keep painting. My dad is awesome!

Living room before:

Living room after:

Mike and I put the ceiling fan up in here. It looks awesome.

Dining room before:

Dining room after:

Homeownership: Day 1

I am tired.

Mike and I got our keys this morning at 9 am. Being alone in the house with no real estate agent was strange. Knowing it was ours was strange. But the strange feels soon turned to joy when we got to do some demo work. FUN!

We ran into 2 small issues today.
1. there were 2 holes in the fire place under that facade thingy
2. the floor tile in the master bathroom was not complete but hidden by a bath mat.
No biggie on either. The previous owners left us a few boxes of tiles so we can fix the floor no problem. Mike is confident that he can fix the fireplace up too.

We primed SO much today. We have 2 spots left to prime. Mike is an AMAZING painter. I never knew. Our bedroom is 90% complete, once it is all the way done I will take pictures. PS on the bedroom: dark brown stripes suck to cover up.

So I would rate our first day as homeowners a complete success. It is a great feeling having completed the biggest purchase a person makes in life. We are so happy!

FINALLY

We just heard that our loan was funded and will be recorded tomorrow morning. The escrow agent also told me there will be a check at the title office for us since out closing costs were less than predicted, YAY!

We are meeting out real estate agent at the house at 9 am to get out keys then the real fun begins. We are SO excited and I honestly felt like this day would never get here. YAY!

Still waiting...

Well we have 4 days to go till we get our keys and we are unbelievably excited. We took a trip to Lowe's on Sunday and made our first, of many, purchases. We bought paint and all the supplies to paint. We both took Friday off to get a jump start on painting. We plan to paint all weekend. I called today to put all the utlities in our name starting Friday. I also made an appointment to have the house re-keyed. We are itching to do something, anything to the house!

T-minus 4 days!

Signing

We are signing our escrow papers at 4:15 today. After that our part is done and we wait to get keys on the 16th. I can't believe we are going to be homeowners. We are both so excited! Can't wait!

**update** signing went off without a hitch. We did our final walk through last night too. Now we just wait for our agent to call with or keys. YAY

Escrow a go go

Our escrow is going so well our mortgage broker thinks we can close early. We will close on the 16th or the 17th if everything works out just right. Our mortgage broker is really good. She had us get all the documents during our pre-qualification so that once we got a house it was easy pesy.

So 16 days and counting!