The new house

Wow, its taken me a long time to figure this whole blog thing out....I used to think that I was pretty savy on a computer, but now I know I should be enrolled in classes or something =(

So most of you probably already know that right after my last post we found the perfect house for us. We put in an offer, it was denied because although it was the first day that the house was on the market and we were the first one's to put in a bid, they allowed it to be shown over the weekend and there were a couple of other offers on the table by Monday morning. So we had to go back at them with another offer (our best offer) and pray that it was good enough. So a couple of days later we got word that we had gotten the house, but not based on monetary appeasment but because our closing date was sooner and since it was a repo, they wanted to unload it fast! So a couple of days from then we were signing papers. So here is a picture of us getting ready to leave to go sign the papers.

Here is the very first picture of our very first house!!!!

The original owners took really good care of the place. You could tell that they did not mean to lose this house, they loved it and it was very apparent. The only qualm I had with them was there color choices. They were not us in any way, although after painting pretty much the entire house, I really wish the colors had been "us". Jason kept asking me, are you sure you can't live with this color at least for a while? I should have listened to him especially when I had to do the ceilings. Apparently that takes talent that I don't have too, because I kept getting paint in my eyes.

This was the color of our living room. It doesn't look very dark in these pictures, but in all actuallity it was blood red.

This was the color of our master bedroom, and the entire bathroom including the ceiling... It was a seafoam green. It wasn't really that hard to paint but like I said I had more paint in my eyes then I think I ever got on the wall.

This dark blue was on the walls of one of the guest bedrooms, it took a lot of primer. The other guest bedroom was neon pink. They will always be known to us as the blue room and the pink room no matter how long we live here and see the white walls.

You can't really see how far up or how much of the house was covered in this tan-brownish color but everything that wasn't red, blue, seafoam green, or neon pink was brown. It was in the living room, the entire upstairs, the hall ways and every nook and cranny in the kitchen.

The kitchen in all its brownish glory.

I made Jason take this picture. The blue room was the last room that we completed. We were both so exhausted it wasn't even funny. He was working all day long and then he would go straight to our new house and work another 8 hours to get our house ready to live in. We didn't actually move in until it was all completed. I felt really bad but I needed the house to feel like ours before we moved in, and he complied although not understanding completely. Jason is such a nice guy. I love you baby!!! And thank you again to my dgma and my grumpy who came over and helped paint almost every day so that I wouldn't be by myself when I didn't feel good. =)

Well thats all for today, I will try and update this a lot more frequently now that I know how to do it. I have a ton more pictures of the befores and afters, and what we've been doing more recently that I will post on here asap. We love and miss you all.