Wednesday, July 22, 2009

It is official!

So it is official. We are officially homeowners as of Monday, July 20, 2009. After a long, and hairy, closing process, we can finally move into a house and not feel like we're stuck with what we got cuz we don't want to have to change it back when we leave.

Some things we learned during this process...
Choose your title company carefully. They make all the difference in the end. (that's a very long story. unfortunately we didn't have a choice in the matter cuz it was a bank-owned property and the bank chose the title company for us. we'll ask for a ... more professional co. next time. 'nuff said.)

Be sure and give yourself plenty of time for things to go wrong before you have to move out of your current place. (we're very fortunate that we had two weeks between closing and move in/move out time. if we didn't have that buffer, we would be much more stressed now.)

Keep a copy of everything.

Be patient. (without this one, we would have gone crazy months ago.)

Pictures soon to come. :)

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Word to the Wise ... Watch Where You Spray!

This very well could be the funniest moment in our married life so far. Let me set the stage...

Me - preparing to bake cinnamon rolls ; getting ready to grease the pan with canola oil spray
Kyle - holding a bowl of ice cream in one hand

Me - having trouble removing the lid of the spray because it is greasy, and I'm laughing at myself for not being able to pull it off
Kyle - telling me how to get the lid off the spray can easiest -- by bending the lid off, rather than pulling it straight off

Me - holding the spray
Kyle - bending the lid off with his free hand

Me - face full of canola oil spray because the lid hit the squirter on the way off
Kyle - laughing uncontrollably

Me - laughing now too
Kyle - still laughing -- happy I'm not mad ;)

Word to the wise ... remove your own lid!

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Here's another quick one

Alright, another quick update here. We hit our first 100-degree weather day today! Hooray! Okay, so maybe not so much a hooray as an "Oh dang. Here it comes." But the weather people say it'll cool back down to the 80's by this weekend. I hope so. Something amusing that Kyle and I enjoy here though is the weather reports, especially during the summer. It is always some variation of, "It's gonna be hot. And maybe a chance of rain. But definitely hot!" My favorite may have been today's channel 5 news commercial: "We reached the triple digits today. How many of those days are we going to be seeing this summer?" Let me see, umm, maybe like everyday for the next 5 or 6 months! Seriously, is that supposed to get me to watch the news later just to find out how many HOT! days we're going to experience? Sorry channel 5, didn't work for me.

Anywho, on a brighter note...We celebrated our one-year anniversary last weekend. Thank you, thank you. No applause needed. We have had a fun first year together, and we're looking forward to another great year ahead. Kyle was so sweet and surprised me with a beautiful arrangement of flowers with a note that said: "One spectacular rose for one spectacular year." (Sorry sweetie if this embarrasses you. It was so sweet though, I had to share it. :) ) I surprised him with a carton of Super Loaded chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. We also were able to celebrate by using gift cards Kyle got from work at Borders to buy ourselves 4 new books, 2 for each of us. Yes, perhaps a bit nerdy and not necessarily everyone's ideal first-year anniversary celebration. But we loved it. We both love reading and love being in bookstores, so it was perfect for us. Wouldn't have had it any other way. Plus it was Easter weekend. So what better way to spend our first anniversary together than by celebrating being sealed for eternity and reflecting on the Savior's gift to us of eternal life? No better way!

And one last quick update... we have put an offer on a house! It is a short sale, so we now wait for the bank to tell us if they accept our offer or not. But we are super excited! It is in a great location and is a great house. So wish us luck. Better yet, pray for us that the right thing will happen. We are very excited about this house, but know, especially with a short sale, that anything can happen. So we're trying to keep calm about the whole thing. But it's a great house! :)

Well, that's all for now. Oh except... I am about to begin teaching one, maybe two, more students violin. That will bring the total to four or five (respectively). Okay, now that's all I can think of. Chat with you later! See ya, from the AZ'ers.