2 Month Update

I wanted to just give a quick update since I have not posted anything on my blog for almost over two months now. It seems once you buy a house everyone wants to come see you. Not that I mind this but we have had a lot of company these last few months, which is why I have not posted in a while. We first had my grandma who came the last week in May, we had fun taking her to boulder and walking around Pearl Street. We love to go to Boulder because it is the greenest place we have found in Colorado, why we love it. Then Steve's brother Jake came for a weekend. Then we had my sister and her boyfriend for a weekend while they attended a class in Denver. We had fun playing the wii and Mario cart tell midnight almost every night. The last week in July I flew out to St. George, Utah for Krista's wedding! I was so excited to be there and to help with everything. I threw her a bridal shower, which was a challenge not living in the same state but with the help of her new mother in law and her mom we were able to pull it off and had a great time. The wedding was beautiful and I am so excited for her.
The next week was mine and Mykie's birthdays. August is always a big month for us with two birthdays. Steve was off work with Mykie all week. My mother in law came into town on my birthday. She took all of us to the movies and to my favorite restaurant, The Olive Garden. She also bought me some beautiful flowers. She spoils me too much. Thank you Sue. Steve and Mykie surprised me by making me a birthday cake. Steve does not bake, so I was very excited he tried for me. They made my birthday very special. My dad and sister came on Thursday and stayed for the weekend. This is the first time my dad has been out to see me and I was very excited. This made my birthday even better.
Saturday was Mykie's birthday, we celebrated at Boondocks and later that night took both our families to the Rockies game. It was a busy weekend but it was so good to spend time with all our family. The pictures are out of order, like usual, but are some pictures from all our events.

Grandma, Mykie and Ty

Steve and I

Tiffany, my dad, and I

My sister brought both the boys

Rockies T-shirts.

Bumper Boats

Mykie and Ty getting ready to race.

Opening presents.

Check out that present stash.

Mykie and Ty

Gotta love my homemade cakes!

Our new basketball hoop!

MY 27TH BIRTHDAY!

The cake Mykie and Steve made for me.

Chekc out all that smoke! You know you are
getting old when candles cover the entire cake

and you can' t blow them out with one blow.

My new purple bike!

They hid the bike in the shed.

I thought Mykie looked cute

in this picture.
I am smelling lip gloss my sister gave me.

KRISTA'S WEDDING!!

THE BRIDE TO BE!!!

Krista and John Miller!

Krista and I

Our House!

It took me a while to get these pictures posted because I kept trying to get the house finished before I posted any. Then I realized it would take me a lot longer than I thought. I have unpacked most of the boxes but still have not hung any picture yet. I guess it has only been 3 weeks since we closed. I am the kind of person that would like it done right away, so it drives me nuts. I have having fun in the process though. I never knew how much work went into owning a home, but it is totally worth it! :) We love our home!

Here is a good picture of the house with leaves on the trees and not

a "for sale" sign in the front yard.

A different angel of the house.

The backyard.

You can kind of see were there is a place to walk down, this area is a garden area. We have already planted corn and pumpkins!

Shed and planter boxes. I would like to take these

planter boxes out but I will wait until next year.

Side of the house. This is a double sided garage.

The deck, come out from the kitchen.

Going upstairs. These pictures are a little out of order.

Family room, upstairs. That big brown bag on the side is a "love sack".

Takes up the whole room. Very comfortable.

Steve got me roses for Mother's Day.

Kitchen table, very messy. I took this picture when we first moved it.

Laundry room.

Other side of laundry room.

Hallway leading to the laundry room.

Downstairs family room/kids play room.

Second bathroom.

Mykie's room.

Kitchen. Thankfully we were able to get matching appliances. Looks much better with the appliances. If any of you saw this house before we bought it, the kitchen was full of holes were the appliances went. We also took down the wallpaper and painted the room "brown tope color. I love it.

Second bedroom. Mykie had to get in the picture. He was having fun if you can't tell.

Master bathroom, Jet tub. I love taking baths and it just go better.

Master bathroom, double vanity.

Honey

HONEY

This is Honey laying next to Steve on the Love Sack.

My sister got me a love sack for Christmas and I was finally able to set it up. This is Honey's favorite place to lay. She thinks it is her own big pillow. :)

We have added a new member to our family, her name is Honey. She is a female yellow lab mix. We have been waiting to adopt a dog for a long time now but wanted to wait until we got a house. Honey is a very sweet dog and is starting to show her personality every day. She is timid at first but once she gets use to you she is very loveable. We got her from a shelter called "The dumb friends league". Honey was only at the shelter for one month. We have had her for almost two weeks now. She loves to burry her bones in the back yard and loves her belly rubbed just like any other dog. She is a beautiful dog and we love her.

P.S. House pictures to come.

We Are Homeowners!!!!

Yesterday we finally closed on our house! Closing went great and we no longer have any savings once we buy our appliances. Buying a house makes you go completely broke. I guess that is part of the journey.
Previous drama: Last week, we were suppose to close on Friday. Steve and I had all our plans of painting on Saturday and going out to eat on Friday after we closed. We found out last Monday afternoon there was a piece of paper the seller bank needed to sign before we were closed and they've had the paperwork for over a week now. In order to close by Friday we needed that paperwork back by Tuesday morning. The seller bank is in Washington D. C. and this is not the first time they have sat on paperwork. Well, after our realtor and financial lady from our bank called them we finally got that paper Tuesday afternoon. Well, the seller bank required they have 48 hours to look over the closing paperwork. Our hope of closing on Friday went out the door. We had to cancel reservations and plans. We were stressed because we have to be out of our apartment by April 30th and have to move this weekend. We thought if we did not close this week then we would have to back out of the deal or we would be homeless. Well, we signed an extension for Wednesday at 1p. Then they said we were possible could close Tuesday at 11a as long as we could get everything in from the seller bank. We did not get our hopes up. The title company worked with different people at the seller bank and were able to get everything in on time to close Tuesday.
We are so excited, it almost does not feel real we just bought a house. We really had a good realtor who fought for us until the very end with the seller bank and Wellsfargo was awesome with our loan and getting an low interest rate. We could not be happier. My in laws are in town to help us get the house ready and buy appliances. Which is so helpful because both Steve and I have to work. No vacation time left.
I will post pictures soon. Yeah! We own a house! :)

CLOSING

After a long wait, we are nearing our closing date, April 17th. We are very excited and have been patiently waiting for this time. Cross your fingers everything goes well. Hopefully nothing small will stop us from closing like our full names not being spelled out. LOL It amazes me the attention of detail that goes into buying a house, especially at this time.
When I look back at our buying a house experience I think for the most part it has been good. It did not come without a lot of stress, worry, and anxiety but we made it through. We can't wait tell the house is ours and we can begin to make it our home. We plan to paint next Saturday and clean carpets once the paint it dried. The next week my in-laws plan to come and help us move in! I am so excited for them to be here to help us out. Home depot has already become our new favorite store, its like the new Walmart! :) Someone at work told me that the other day and it is so true. We have pre-closing jitters to deal with this week and then we are on our way to starting our adventure in becoming homeowners!!

House Shopping

For those of you who do not already know, Steve and I are planning to purchase our first home. We have been looking for about 2 weeks now. I think we have looked at about 13 to 14 houses. We are a little hurried because we just gave our notice for our apartments this weekend. We had to give them 60 days which we both thought was ridiculous. Usually apartments only require a 30 day notice but not ours. Well, after looking at about six houses this last Saturday, we found one we put an offer on tonight! I felt a little overwhelmed with everything that is involved and just purchasing a house is one of the biggest investment you make in life, just little stressful. I have never wrote a check for 2,000 before yesterday, earnest money. Good thing I have a husband that does not worry as much as I do. In these types of situations it is really helpful for me because I can be a big worry wort. We will know by Friday at noon if the bank accepted our offer. If they don't and we do not want to go through with it then it is back to house shopping on Saturday. I feel pretty good that we have a good chance of them accepting our offer. The property is in foreclosure so the bank owns the property. We have looked at some pretty crummy places during our short search but this is by far the best place we have found. We thought we could live in a place and fix it up. As we started to look at houses and how much it would cost we realized real quick that was not in the cards for us. This house is in such good shape that we really would not have to do a lot besides some paint and cleaning the carpets in order to move in. One downside to buying a foreclosure is sometimes the people take there appliances with them. I will attach the email address of the property but as you can see there is not an oven or a fridge. All things considered, we are very excited. We are crossing our fingers! It is very nerve racking waiting. We offered them a little below there asking price and they pay the closing cost. Hopefully it goes through. The pictures really aren't that great but here is the website: http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/9696-Franklin-St_Thornton_CO_80229_1106736596

Snowboarding in Vail

I realized I am not very good at the blog thing because I can't seem to post very often but I thought I would update on what has been happening in my life. Krista came to visit me in January, Martin Luther King Holiday. She wanted to experience snowboarding in the Colorado mountain's. We decided to go to Vail. It was absolutely beautiful! The weekend was perfect because the roads were dry. We did hit some traffic on the way up to the mountain but we figured that was all part of the experience. We had a good time, even though I fell a lot. I was only able to go down the hill twice because the mountain was so big. Krista was able to go down three times. I have realized that might be the last time I go snowboard because I seem to go every other year and each time I go snowboarding I am a beginner again and beat myself up. I am just not able to go enough to get good at it. Well, see I might go next year if Steve is able to get off blood thinners.
Anyways, here are some pictures of our adventures. For some reason I was not able to upload anymore of the pictures I wanted to.

Vail Village

Krista and Me

After an hour and a half we finally hi 60 mph.

Don't worry I did not take the picture.

Me

The Mountains