Our NEW Home!!!

I am so terrible about keeping this thing updated. My camera is still broken and still have not found the time to get it fixed. Today I found my self really really board at work so thought that I would utilize my down time and work on my blog since it needs it very very badly!! So since the last snow day in April it has been a three whole months since I was last here. Alright so since April we finally were able to move into our new house that was a big ordeal, it took forever for all the paper work to come through on the house and it all came in just on time before our loan lock expired. We are very thankful that all is good and everything went through just in time for everything to work out. We are now enjoying our new home it is almost 1800 square feet it has 3 bedrooms and 2 and 1/2 bathrooms all of the bedrooms are upstairs, we have a great living room and family room. All though there was a ton of work to do before we could really move in. The sellers were kind enough to let us work on the house before it closed and was officially ours. We had set a date to close on our home and never did and then we had set another date and it still did not happen. So the sellers let us get started on all the dirty work. Some of the things we did just on a weekend while Ben's parents were in town to help us get started on the big project is we were able to paint every single wall in the house with at least two coats if not more if it needed it. Not to mention before we could paint the walls we had to scrub the walls because the previous renters that lived in the home had spilled things all over the walls, there dogs had made messes all over the carpets which made the whole house smell of animal urine. The people that lived in the home were also smokers so you can only imagine these two smells mixed together how bad it must have smelled. We were fortunate enough that the sellers gave us a 1200.00 dollar allowance for brand new carpet and pad. So we picked out the best that we could for the amount that was available to us. We did end up spending just a little bit of our own money which basically covered the cost for the installer to rip out all of the yucky carpet and pad and to put in the new stuff!! What a difference the new pad and carpet makes to the look of the house and to the smell. Unfortunately we weren't able to replace all the carpet in the home as it would cost us way to much money, then we would not be able to afford our mortgage! However we were also able to replace the carpet in our master bedroom and closet with the help of Ben's parents. Thank you so much for helping us out!! Other things that we were able to accomplish after my in laws were gone, is that we cleaned all the base boards and trimming around all the doors and got all of those painted along with the doors. We had to buy a new fan for the master bedroom as we could not figure out what was wrong with the one that was already there, I am glad we bought a new fan it makes all the difference when it is super hot outside and since our bedroom is upstairs it is nice to feel the breeze when we sleep. We also laid down tile in are spare 1/2 bathroom downstairs and in the hallway from the garage to the kitchen. We also were able to get tile down in our master bathroom. Its to bad that I did not have before and after pictures of our house and I am really bummed about it because then no one can see all the hard work that we had to put into this house. But I can happily say that most of it is all done and we were able to move in and have now lived there for about one and half months it is awesome to be a home owner. All though our house seems to be somewhat done there is always some little project that needs to be worked on.