Moving on up!

Michael and I closed on our house Wednesday but did not get our keys until Friday afternoon. We waited patiently for the city of Odessa to do their finaly inspections. We are so excited to be 1st time home owners! Holly and Jim Bob came and helped us move Saturday morning and unpack a few things. Even Avery and Ella came to help :) Poor Michael had worked from midnight until 9 that morning so he was exhausted but he worked hard and got it done. It was torture for all of us not to get to watch the Tech game but Kellye gave us updates throughout the game!! Needless to say the house is a wreck so we are staying with my mom a few more nights until we can get it organized. I don't know how we had so much stuff in a tiny apartment. We had not used any of our wedding gifts because we were anticipating this move so it was so nice to see everything-I had forgotten what all we had! We are also waiting on some new furniture to arrive this week!! As soon as it starts to look better I will take more pics and post them.

Barley will have a new home too!

We thought we were going to have just dirt for a long time. Everyone kept telling us that we can't plant any grass right now but we have still had some pretty weather so we are hoping that we can get something to grow before it gets really cold. Barley will need some grass to run and play in. We finally stopped at a nursery in Odessa and they were very helpful-looks like Michael will be working in the yard the 1st weekend we move in!!

New Pics!!

Here are some new pics of the house! We are supposed to close in 2 days-there are still a few things they are working on but it looks good. Michael and I are getting so excited!!

Final Walk Through!!

Michael and I had our final walk through yesterday. It went a lot better than we anticipated. We did use almost a whole roll of blue tape marking things we wanted fixed but most of it was just minor things. They will work on fixing those things Monday and Tuesday and have the city come out and do their final inspection. If everything goes smoothly we are supposed to close on Wednesday at 11. I am saying my prayers that everything works out. We are supposed to have Thanksgiving with my family at our house so that will give me a week to try and get everything ready. It is so nice being a teacher because I will have that whole week off before Thanksgiving so I can get things done. We will take pics and post them when everything looks the way it should and before we move in.

2 weeks!

Our house sat for 2 weeks and nothing was done to it. We were both very frustrated so we went over last week to talk to them and see what the deal was. We were told that it is just part of the whole process-we did feel better about everything after we left. They finally started working on it again this week. They installed the cabinets and the interior doors. They also did all the trim work. They moved our closing date from Nov. 6th to Nov. 17th so we have 2 weeks left. There is a lot of work to be done so we are crossing our fingers that it doesn't get moved again. We have our final walk through on Fri. Nov. 13th-good thing I am not superstitious!! We are counting down the days!! Here are just a few pics-we didn't have time to take a lot because Michael had to go to work. There should be a lot in the next few weeks though so check back!!