Un-Glamorous Gilroy Happenings

We're going crazy over here! I think the blog should temporarily be re-named the 'Un-Glamorous Gilroy Happenings'! Oh my goodness! We've been working hard to move everything from our apartment into either our new garage or my parent's house or my in law's house in the rain! Our apartment has two flights of stairs, which makes for very sore legs! So tonight I have to rush to the apartment after work to pack up the rest of our 'stuff', I will then clean the entire place and hand over keys. Oh and how could I have forgotten, I also have to write a ridiculously large check to break our lease! Ahh...I'm seeing the money go down the toilet as I type!

Also, on top of moving, rain and sore legs, there is always something new happening with the new house! Last night we realized we have two leaky windows in our house. We also found out that we have to replace the bathroom vanity because at one point there was a leak that caused the bottom of the vanity to rot. Hmm...I guess we'll be heading to Home Depot again!

Hopefully my next post is more positive! :)

Where do I start?!

-We closed on our house on 09/11/09.

-We started ripping everything out of the house on 09/12/09.

-We are updating almost everything about the interior of the house.

So far we have:

-Removed all of the flooring in the house.
-Painted every single wall in the house.
-Painted all of the doors white.
-Ripped out a half wall in the living room.
-Tore down faux wood finish on the ceiling beam in the living room.
-Fixed multiple dry wall cracks.
-Removed wall texture from a large living room wall.
-Hung new dry wall in the shower.
-Removed all kitchen cupboards.
-Bought all new appliances.
-Created a small 'mud room' out of a closet.
-Been to Home Depot every day since we became homeowners.
-Filled 25 black garbage bags with yard debris.
-Tore down all of the bamboo from the front yard.

Now for the nasty before pictures!

(This is NOT our stuff!)

*I will post 'after' pictures once we are actually done and living in the house.

**We still haven't completely moved out of our townhouse.

***We are living at my parent's house again! :)

****Our belongings are currently in the garage at our new house, at my parent's house, at my in law's house and still at the apartment!

Tuesday-4pm

Tuesday at 3:00pm the escrow company called to see if we could be at their office by four! Wow, thanks for the notice! Anyways, we are so excited that we've made it this far, that we both figure out how to leave work early and make it to the escrow company by four. Well our excitement slowly faded as we waited and waited in the lobby. When we finally met with the escrow manager, our visions of a HGTV style closing, vanished from our minds. This lady was awful! She was rude, and didn't feel the need to explain any of the documents to us. She then asked us for our down payment, and said she didn't show a deposit of $5,000 that we had given as earnest money! I was really upset because the money had already cleared our bank, and she was saying that there was no record of it. Well, one quick phone call later, that was all straightened out, but she never apologized for assuming that we were lying about the money. She also said that it might not be possible to receive possession of the keys until the following week! I was really upset because I was leaving on a business trip to Las Vegas, the day we would be receiving the keys! Anyways, one hour later we were on our way out of there, annoyed with our experience, but eager to get our keys... I frantically called our real estate agent, Tami, and she helped calm Brendan and I down. She was also annoyed that we had a bad experience with the closing company. Oh well, everything worked out, and now we're on our way to becoming home owners!

Kitchen Inspiration!

I love everything about this kitchen!

Found here!

New House!

If everything continues to move along as planned, we will be homeowners next week! We are so excited for this new adventure! We've already picked out paint colors, new flooring, new appliances, outdoor furniture, new counter tops, etc! The only thing we're not looking forward to is packing up and moving again! Since we've been married we've lived in six different places! Yikes! I definitely hate packing, moving, unpacking, etc! Oh well, this time we will be staying put for a few years!

(Picture taken from online listing.)

* We're going to remove the bamboo from the front yard to open up the space. There is a lot of potential with landscaping since it's a corner lot on almost 1/4 of an acre!

Did you just put lip gloss on?

On our way to the grocery store earlier this week, hubby and I had the following conversation.

First: My phone rings and I turn down the radio volume to answer the call. This conversation happened after I hung up the phone and hubby went to turn up the volume.

Hubby: Did you just put lip gloss on?

Me: No, why are you asking?

Hubby: There is something slimy on the volume knob.

Me: That's odd.

Hubby: Did you have a booger on your finger?

Me: No, gross!

Hubby: Haha!

Happy 60th Birthday Dad!

Enjoy your special day!