Tomorrow!

Hey bloggers! Krista and Adam here. So... It's been a while. And we have been very busy. We are having a house warming party tomorrow afternoon. And have been gearing up for it for the past couple weeks. However, we are still studly working on the house. We will have lots of updates wicked soon. Tune in tomorrow for some fun pics .

Couches & Carpets & Laundry..Oh my!

This past Friday was one of the craziest to date! I spent my morning making sure the carpet was delivered which happened the same time as our washer and dryer came in. Thank goodness most of the neighbors were at work as the two trucks attempted to not bump into each other. The washer and dryer are amazing. We got them for over 40% off during labor day and asked to have them shipped two weeks later...

And they play music when they turn on and when a load ends! It's fantastic.

Then as our friend replaced our carpet (Thanks Bryan!) we got to learn the nitty gritty of how it's done.



Then when Adam was home, we decided that carpet replacing was a little loud and left for the closest IKEA . Adam had never been to IKEA before, so we had to go over the writing of aisles and bins for the couches that we liked and the "Strange, made up" names of different styles of chairs and even milk frothers. Hours later, we finished at the AS IS section. We found a lamp that I fell in love with for half off, along with a sweet couch, only discounted because they were used in the showroom!

It was love at first sight.

* Adam's proof of strange made up names in the office chair section.


More updates soon, specifically about the Weekend of Wylan, Cabinet cleaning, and CURTAINZ!

WATER

And just like that, the man came out and brought water back to us. Glorious Day! 

Back to cleaning, which is not so glorious

Utility lessons.

So while we've been trying in vain to clean the house and unpack at the same time, it's proven to be a bit...difficult. Especially when you have to learn how to properly clean the inside of cabinets that may have not been cleaned for months. We'll spare you the details of the bathrooms aside from this picture and the gracious gift of bleach products from Krista's mother.

It's okay, bathtub, you're gonna make it. We promise

Ugh.

However, we have recently come into a, well, drought. 

The county shut off our water.

I had called them two hours before, setting up our account and all. And when the woman asked when I would like to have the water transferred into my name, I said Friday, because I thought we had time until the previous owners would shut it off.

This woman failed to mention that the previous owners planned for it to be shut off today.

FAILED!

So after calling back right before they closed yesterday, we have been crossing our fingers that it will be back on tonight. You know, so we can shower and brush our teeth with indoor plumbing. 

In other news, we have also learned we do not have a homeowner's association, which we consider a plus.

However, this means we have no idea where our trash goes.

But we're assuming it is not the deck. 

Thanks to the internet being set up yesterday, and through thorough googling, we found out that we are free. Free to choose whatever trash company we choose.

So we had to choose a company today, because our deck is not happy with our current POA.

We're not only homeowners, we're Engaged!

OMG OMG OMG!

As we first closed on our home September 14th at 6pm, later that night we became engaged!

It was wonderful enough for us to close on our first home after years of city apartment living, but now it made more sense for us to be homeowners as we begin this adventure together!

So, beginning story of the closing. We had to drive from the city to New Kent County, which is about forty minutes away. Now some close in offices, but we closed here

At a country club. Good to know people in the business, huh? It was relaxing, we actually had a lot of fun signing papers while joking with the people who had been with us every step of the way.

Now when my parents moved into their home (over twenty years ago) I remember that we spent the first night eating in the kitchen on a picnic blanket with wendy's. It was adorable. But since we lost our picnic blanket within the piles of boxes, and no wendy's was nearby, we chose a delicious alternative:

Outback Steakhouse. With champagne in solo cups which is not pictured because we were too busy eating this food.


So after gorging ourselves, Adam suggested we explore the house.


He took me into our den which has no overhead lighting. It was dark. Something was in the corner but I could not make out what it was. I assumed it was a horrifying bug and refused. Minutes later after arguing about who needed to go over there and check it out, I finally gave up and inched my way towards the object. It was a little box.

Before I could figure out what it could possibly be, he turned me around, got down on one knee, opened the box, and

You could guess I was pretty excited.


We had to go back to our apartment since we were moving the next day with some amazing friends, but we agreed it was the best day ever.