Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Happy New Year!

From the both of us we wish all of you a very happy new year!

Also I have posted pictures of our house. The link is on the left hand side of the page labeled "Our House". Enjoy and check back often I will be posting more when progress has been made!

Monday, December 29, 2008

Eight Months to go!

I hope everyone had a great holiday, we certainly did. We received a lot of awesome things for our house for Christmas; I am so excited to use them!

The girls and I went dress shopping on Friday and I found my dress! Oh I love it so much I can’t wait to wear it. The place we went did not have a big selection of bridesmaid’s dresses so we are planning to go to a different place before everyone leaves again.

Erik and I (with the help of our families) have been working on our house. Things are slowly progressing; I say slowly because we always have to wait for something to dry. So far we have changed the locks, taken down that hideous white front screen door, taken down the bars in the front entrance, taken down the awful curtains and spackled almost everywhere. Yesterday we took out the upper kitchen cabinets! And I think we are ready to start painting some of the ceilings upstairs. Oh yea and the new roof was installed on the house on Friday. As soon as we order the kitchen cabinets and get them in we are going to start installing those as well.

I promise I will put pictures up of the house when I leave work today.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Homeowners!!

It is official, Erik and I are homeowners! We had our settlement yesterday. Everything went very well. We went to home depot yesterday and bought new locks for all the doors. I can’t wait to start working on fixing up the house! This weekend we will clean the upstairs and finalize paint colors and hopefully start painting. Our roofing guy is going to be at the house all day today, putting on our new roof.

We also met with Hyojon to go over some more designs for our kitchen, and went to the granite place and picked out our granite. We are hoping to start work on the kitchen early to mid January.
I am also hoping to meet with the caterer in early January and get that taken care of. I should also have a block of hotel rooms reserved for people who know they will be coming and are ready to book their hotel rooms now. I will give you more information about that when I know more but for now enjoy the holidays!

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Photographer!

Yay I have a photographer! We are very excited to work with Liz and her husband. We will probably be taking our engagement pictures sometime when the weather starts getting nice and warm in the spring.
Things are starting to come together! We will meet with the caterer sometime in January to get that squared away, then the only major things that are left are the DJ and flowers. And I have plans for those as well.
The girls and I are going dress shopping the Friday after Christmas; hopefully we can find the dresses they are looking for. It will take a little while longer for me to pick out my dress, although I really loved one of the ones I tried on a few weeks ago, my mom tells me to keep looking around and I agree with her. But we bought my jewelry and I know how I want to style my hair for the wedding day!

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Home Inspection

On Saturday we had our home inspection. It went really well, there are a few things that they are required to fix and a few things that we are asking them to take care of.  They have three days to respond and let us know what they are going to fix. 

Our settlement date is still December 22 YAY.  

Monday, December 8, 2008

STDs are in the mail!

Yes it is true, our save the dates are complete. They are stamped, addressed and ready to be sent out. In fact, they are in the mail! I am still in the process of looking for a good photographer. We have met with a few photographers but I don’t want to commit to one just yet. I am giving myself until the end of the month to make a decision. It should give me plenty of time to look at a bunch of photographers.

Also I am going to start looking into hotels around the area to book a block of rooms, so look for more information and the link to the hotels around January; I think most of you should know by then if you will be able to attend. I really hope everyone can come!

The girls and I should be going to look for dresses after Christmas when Diana and Lauren are back home. I cannot wait! oh and we will go shopping for stuff for the house!

Oh yes and our seven year anniversary is this coming Wednesday, December 10!

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Third time is a charm!!!!!!

They accepted our offer for the house!!!!! We are going to go to the house this weekend to have an inspector check it out and we will close on December 22; I think.

Saturday, December 6, 2008

House Update

Today we went out house hunting again; both of us have been quite discouraged and let down recently with the houses on the market but we went out anyway. Until today; we put an offer down on another house! This one is even more perfect than the last one. Really I think this is the best one we have seen. It has a little man-made pond in the most wonderful and large backyard.

The best part about this house is that not only is it a regular transaction (meaning we don’t have to wait for the bank to approve the offer) but the agent selling the house is also a Long and Foster agent, which we are told makes everything run more smoothly. The other agent was very excited and happy as well; we should know within 24 hours of we get the house. So everyone please pray; this is it this is the one we really want.
We are hoping that the third time is the charm!

Oh ya and we retracted our offer on the other house.

Monday, December 1, 2008

A little update

We have not heard back officially from the bank yet however, we do know that there was a cash offer put down on the house. This leads us to believe that we will not be getting the house, so refer to the pictures of the post I put up on the 14th.

Back to the drawing board.