3 Week Update

Hello Everyone!

Here's a quick update on our progress at the new house. For those of you who don't have it, the new address is 3597 Wildflower Lane Mountville, PA 17554. Well, it's been 3 weeks and we have been busy trying to find a place for everything and trying to get organized. It sure is a lot of work. Things are coming along even with our limited schedules since school and work and football are all in full swing. It leaves evenings (some) and weekends (some) to get things done. There are some pictures of the yard, which received it's first ever mowing on Saturday, the office, the kitchen and the garage. (Which Zeke has made his permanent home) We tried to get Zeke to join us in the house, but he likes being outside and prefers the garage. He enjoys the many walks and doggie smells of the neighborhood. Jacob has made himself right at home with the 4 other boys his age and is gone most of the time building forts, skipping rocks and exploring with his friends. The kids are all back to school and are doing well with being bus riders, except Michael got on the High School bus the first day by mistake. It all worked out though and he LOVES middle school. Lindsay is also enjoying school and has made some new friends.

We're Finally in!

Well, we are finally in after all of the drama of the past few weeks. We settled on both houses on Friday, spent a few hours being homeless in between and had everything @ the new house by dinner time. A great big THANK YOU to all of the awesome friends and family who helped for several hours to get the job done! As you can see from the pictures, we are just getting settled in, but still have a lot of work to do. We are enjoying the nice cool weather and my Dad is the master of hanging everything and did about 2 months of work in 2 days hanging all of our paper holders, towel bars, window treatments, quilt rack, pictures, etc. He built some steps out back today from the sliding door off the kitchen. My Mom is here for the week to help unpack and organize. Thanks for all of your prayers and support and please stop by to take a peek. We will hopefully settle in and have an Open House in September.

Grass is Growing!

Good Morning. Well, we sure have come a long way since May! We have been watering the yard every morning and the grass is already sprouting up, it is great to have the 1 week head start before we move in. The builder is actually going to raise the grade in the backyard a bit since we have 1 spot that is collecting water. We had our "zero defect" walk through this morning, but we have a few things that still aren't just right, so they will be fixed today or tomorrow. We are being picky, but this is the time to do it, b/c we don't want people to have to come back to fix things once we move in. Only 4 days until we move in! We are really getting excited now and would appreciate your continued prayers for all the details and settlements to go smoothly. We have to put in our mailbox this week, but otherwise things are ready to roll.

House is Finished!

House is finished! We are thrilled with it and can't wait for everyone to come for a visit!

We will be moving next Friday August 8th!

We have a Yard!

We now have our yard! It was graded and raked this morning and we got some pictures of them spraying the hydroseed. Now the hard work begins, keeping it watered and taking care of it.

We had our "Celebration" yesterday and our new oven bakes some pretty tasty cookies and our new microwave pops the perfect bag of popcorn. We will have our "zero defect" walk through Monday morning which means that any imperfections we spotted yesterday should be corrected by Monday morning.

We are settling on the house next Friday August 8th. We will be loading up trucks, etc. Thursday night and Friday and doing the bulk of our moving on Friday. If anyone is available, please join us! We will be feeding you :)

Stay Tuned!

We are very excited to say that settlement has been worked out!

This is SUCH a blessing!! Sparing you all the boring and dramatic juicy details, the bottom line is that we will settle on both houses on August 8th. This will definitely effect the moving plans, but we aren't sure how yet, so stay tuned for more details. Occupancy permits will be needed if we plan to still move stuff this weekend, so maybe we will know more tomorrow.

Also tomorrow is our "Celebration" at the new house and we will have some more pictures tomorrow as well. Thanks for all of your prayers

Touch Ups and News

Well, no new pictures since everything except the yard is finished, but they have been busy fixing drywall, touching up paint and correcting errors. There's still a lot to do for touch ups, but it should all be finished up soon. Seeding is this week.

On a frustrating note, the people buying our house are on vacation this week, so we will probably have to change our settlement date back a week. We are not sure yet and may still be able to move stuff in next weekend, but won't know until Monday at the earliest. Needless to say this is not what we were hoping for, but in the long run, it really won't matter. We are just anxious to get moved in and settled. The home inspection on our house for the buyers went very well, only 1 minor repair that we can do in a few minutes with little to no expense. YEAH!

Stay Tuned!!!!