A new Bailey

Meet Sadie Bailey. Mike has wanted a cat for as long as I can remember. He loves animals and they love him. He is the animal whisper, no joke. We went to the SPCA on Saturday morning and picked out this little lady. She is about 6 months old, we guess. Her tail was broken and her previous owner never took her to the vet to get it fixed so it is like a corkscrew. We love her extra for it. She is super playful and lovey. She enjoys watching TV. She also loves her cat nip lobster and hiding under the bed. She is rather photogenic too.

She enjoys napping on that shelf

Her tail :(

House Warming

We had a house warming party on Saturday. It was great to show off all our hard work. The entire house is painted. I thought it would never be done. Here are some pictures of the finished paint job in each room. Thanks to everyone that stopped by!

Living room:

Fire place, the "B" collection is getting bigger

Dining room. Window treatments from JC Penny and I love them!

Master bedroom. Our bed actually looks small in here. Window treatments from Wal-mart and I love them too.

Master bath. Doesn't look too different in here except the new towels.

Guest bathroom. Now that I look at it this is a terrible picture to showcase the paint.

Sewing/Craft/Office room. This is actually my favorite room. My mom got me the little wire dress form. LOVE it! Desk is from Kohl's. The white cabinet was in our bathroom at the apartment but wouldn't fit in either bathroom of the house so it will help me organize sewing supplies.

Guest bedroom. Another one of my favorite room. The crown molding in here is awesome.

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