We finally closed on the house!!!!!

Andrew and I finally closed on our home and quickly set to work making it feel like a home instead of just the house of doom. I planted a garden on the side of the house. Hydrangea and two bushes transplanted from the 15 the builder felt necessary to plant in front of my house. I also transplanted 3 other bushes behind the garage and in the little garden I pulled those 5 bushes from I planted a rose bush and two mini hibiscus plants. All of which are currently flowering and gorgeous. I was worried about them dying since I've planted them so late, but the lady at the nursery assured me I just needed water them religiously until they take root and they should be fine!!! We also extended the tiny back patio that the builder gave us with pavers and got a cute little outdoor table and chairs for the area. Our last home improvement project in our little home improvement marathon was to paint our bedroom. I LOVE the colors and the way we painted. Now I'm just trying to decide how to paint the front bedroom and spare bathroom. We decided to leave the kitchen/living room area the color it is since it's SO open and the we have really high ceilings and ladder (yet). Andrew is in charge of his man cave, but secretly I'm thinking chair rail with two tone wall. Maybe in some blues or greens since it is a man cave after all. The spare bathroom has a nice purple them going thanks to my wonderful mommy who bought us the set I wanted, but I'm not sure I want purple walls too. It may just be over kill. I know that I want to paint it though even if the color is similar to whats there because the type of paint in the bathroom is really flat and nothing wipes off the walls and the tiniest little splash of water discolors it. Well enjoy the house pictures! See if you can spot the animals I know that Tango and Munch are in there. I'm not sure if I caught Sue.

Our Home!

Our garage

Garden I planted on the side of the house.

Front Garden

Kitchen.

Eating area

The Living room with new entertainment center and shelves

The office/man cave

Our bedroom (excuse my messy bed)

Front bedroom/craft room

10 on Tuesday

1. What two blog posts in two days I must be going insane!
2. I am going to lunch and a movie today with two wonderful ladies. I'm so glad that I'm making friends here in Jville. It's always stressful to move to a new place where you know no one. I'm lucky that the ladies here have welcomed me with open arms.
3. My Daddy, Michelle, and G came to visit week before last now. I was so happy to see them.
4. They dropped off the siding for my house, but story of my life no one is actually working on the house today
5. My Mommy is coming to visit me in August!!! I'm so excited to see her.
   
6. My sister and nephews are coming to visit in September. YAY I miss all my family so much.
   
7. Andrew's wisdom teeth are healing he has a follow up soon. Hopefully he's doing fine.
8. I found a new yarn shop out here (or actually it found me). I was contacted by the owner, evidently someone I know frequents the yarn shop and urged the owner to contact me through ravelry. I'm hoping to check it out soon and get some yummy new yarn.
9. I'm having the hardest time deciding what to cast on next. I was going to knit this really cute bag with some leftover yarn, but the yarn just isn't working with the pattern so I need a new idea.
10. I'm so ready to close on this house it's not funny. It seriously occupies my thoughts every waking moment and I'm beginning to have nightmares about it too. I just want this portion of this chapter in our lives to be done so we can start enjoying our house instead of hating it.
    

The house drama continues

I was trying to add pictures of our not yet finished garage, but blogger keeps eating them. Oh well there is always next time.

Our garage has been built (YAY) though it feels as if all other work is at a standstill. They put the garage itself up in 2 days (yup 2 days!) So then why you ask is it not finished? Well, I'm wondering the same thing. You see they constructed this garage almost 2 weeks ago, yet it still has no siding, no garage door, no regular door, and I'm getting frustrated. I was last week that our closing which was supposed to be the 20th was going to be delayed until the 22nd this is now the 3rd time they moved our closing. The reason for moving it you ask, well it seems that the garage door will not be delivered until the 20th. UMMMMM so why is that the builder has known about this garage for almost 60 days yet the garage door won't be delivered until the date of our (already twice delayed) closing? Well I'm going out on a limb and saying because the builder is a freaking moron with no time management skills. Also, I was informed today that the guy who is supposed to be installing my siding fell off a roof and broke his back. How is this my problem, well I (again) have no freaking clue. So the guy who was supposed to do it can't FIND SOMEONE ELSE! There have to be tons of people in the vinyl siding business who could do this job. Furthermore, they finally started the touch ups on the inside of the house today. Yup again with the you've known about this for almost 60 days and you start NOW well I guess it's better than nothing. However, it's going to be a PITA for the painters because they now have to move all my furniture to do the touch ups. We lived in this house for 20 days with no furniture and the builder knew we had no furniture, I made sure to tell him that it would probably be easier to send the painters back them because every single baseboard needs to be repainted because the painter didn't caulk the nail heads in the trim work and you can see every one through the paint. But what do I know I'm just a stupid girl right.

In other news.

Andrew had his wisdom teeth out on Thursday last week. He's recovering ok. He was able to go back to work today on light duty so that was good. I love my husband dearly, but I was glad to see him go. I like when he goes to work. It gives me time to knit, read a book, clean etc. without him here. I like our together time, but some days I just like to be alone.

I have a job interview on Wednesday that I'm crossing my fingers about. The job sounds super interesting and is something along the lines of what I've been wanting to do with my degree, so I feel it's extra exciting. I'm really hoping I get this job. I miss having a purpose and going to work in the mornings. I'll let y'all know how it goes!

Andrew's Graduation and WE BOUGHT A HOUSE!

I completely forgot to update about Andrew's graduation. It was definitely a good time for all. We went and saw the unveiling of the website. It was a joint project between the video and photo guys. (You check it out Picture Health). Then we had TWO cocktail hours, one at the school where we could view the website, video projects, and photos. Basically a sampling of everyone's work. The second cocktail hour was at the hotel before dinner. I really think we all could have done without the 3 hour break before dinner. lol. Dinner was good, the guest speaker was not. He gave a 45 minute speech that really could have been cut down to about 15-20. The sad thing is we found out later this was the 4th time he'd given the same speech and he had cut it down by 45 minutes already. I really don't think I could have sat through 1.5 hours of that speech! After graduation we all went out to Limericks for one last get together. Which turned out to be our 3rd to last get together with some of the guys since we also went out to breakfast at Stellas and dinner at Dino BBQ the next day. Overall we miss our friends, but are happy to be moving on to the next chapter in our lives.

At cocktail hour at Newhouse

The Marines in the photo class plus two Marine guests

Mary, Me, and Shannon

All the girls
Michelle, Laura, Tiffany, Kailey, Janell, Me, Mary, and Shannon

Andrew getting his diploma!

Andrew and I

Mary, Me, and Shannon at Limericks

The new chapter in our life started off a little differently then we anticipated. When we arrived in Jacksonville we were looking for a rental property. A cute single family home for us to make our lives in for the brief time we're supposed to be here (3ish years). Well evidently God had a different plan for us. We were unable to find a rental and actually got laughed at and called insane by a few realty companies when we informed them how many pets we had and how big our puppy is. Luckily we have some good friends who recommended a realtor and a mortgage broker who have been nothing but great to us! Because of them we were able to find and put in offer in on a beautiful house. 3 bed, 2 bath, and they will be adding a 2 car garage. We were lucky enough to hear yesterday that our offer was accepted. In approximately 14 days we'll be moving in to this brand new house. Then over the course of the next 30 days they will build our garage. When the garage is finished we will be able to close on the house and it will be all ours! While this step in live is definitely nerve wracking (even more so since we weren't planning on it), we're so excited to have a place to call our own. They're also going to sod all of it, cement our driveway up to the garage, and landscape the front.

Our first home!