It's on!

We got our go ahead to get the keys to our new house today around 11:30am. We just got home at midnight.

With the help of my sister, brother in law, dad, and in-laws we:

1. Magically turned a two-tone pink room into a two-tone of Bavarian beige and some lighter beige (after two coats of primer). We also turned a beige, dark brown, and dark blue striped room into a light beige room.

2. Fixed all of the sprinkler heads and set it up for auto!

3. Found out our water softener and garbage disposal are both broken.

4. Installed a new tp dispenser, found the exiting one hiding in a drawer, took down the new one and boxed it back up, then reattached the original.

5. Shoveled out a full paper shopping bag full of dog crap from the backyard.

6. Temporarily fixed the wood stripping that we kept tripping over in the driveway.

7. Sanitized all of the kitchen cabinets and counters.

8. Cleaned out the vent system for the not yet delivered dryer.

9. Found out how to turn on the back fountain but not the front one. (They came with the house).

10. Dusted off the weight set in the garage. (Purchased from the seller of the house.)

11. Situated the house for the carpets to be cleaned early in the morning. (Vacuumed, cleaned up all of the paint supplies, etc.)

12. Drank a case of water and ate lots of pizza.


Tomorrow the carpets will be cleaned while we try to fix the garage door opener (the remote) and get a second one, move in kitchen stuff and whatever boxes we feel like moving, install 2 shower rods, buy 2 shower curtains, some shower heads (well water pressure sucks) and prepare to do the major move on Thursday. (Father-in-law is going to manicure and fertilize our lawn tomorrow to get us started. He is a saint.)

That's the update. And then we get home to the apartment to find a random painting delivered curtousey of Shawn Gould! It had the wrong apartment number on it, so we are lucky someone didn't snag it! He rocks!