closing day!

Today, at about 1:30 PM, our cute little house was officially ours! We went to the settlement table, signed about a million papers, and are now officially locked in until 2042. That doesn't even sound like a real number. But it was all very exciting. We received a very nice housewarming plant, a couple keychains and then went to lunch in Georgetown to celebrate. The rest of the day, however, did not go exactly as planned. We went back to the apartment, packed our bags and drove over to our new house, all ready to camp out there for the night. Except, when we got in we noticed that the power still wasn't working. Part of the seller's agreement was to fix the main power line that comes into the house. When we showed up for the final walkthrough the night before there was a trash bag taped over the new box, the new wires hanging out not connected to anything, and something else being held up by some tape and a tree branch. Basically, it clearly didn't look right, even to newbie homeowners like ourselves. We spoke to the electric company and basically somebody needs to come out and finish the job, we just don't know when that will be yet. Needless to say, there would be no first night sleepover.

After that somewhat disappointing realization we headed over to Home Depot to meet with the kitchen guy for the last time and finalize our countertop and cabinet order. Well, when we got there at 4 we were told the guy had gone home an hour ago and we would have to wait until 6 for the next appointment. Luckily we had lots of items on our to buy list and somehow managed to wander around home depot for 2 hours. We didn't get back to the house until about 7 and in order to get out some aggression...we got to work:

Jeff knocked some holes in the kitchen wall just for fun. (Don't worry it will eventually be knocked down.) He also took out a bunch of branches from the side yard and it instantly made the driveway/entry feel more bright and open. I successfully (I hope) installed new locks on our front door to keep any weirdos out and then we also took down the storm door which was just annoying and made it hard to get in the front door.

So it wasn't exactly the day we anticipated, but it ended up being fun and got us excited for all the upcoming work we have to do!

And just for fun, some dorky "we just bought a house!" home depot pictures: