Friday, August 31, 2007

OUR house!

Waaaaaaaay back in April, we had a dinner par-tay with some of our friends. Anyways, when Dolores and Shawn got there, they gave us a bottle of Israeli champagne. We're not really champagne drinkers, per se, but we decided that we would save it for a special occasion.

Well tonight we took the bottle over to Josh's parents and killed the bottle gently opened it and took a mighty swig gingerly sipped its essence. WOW was that good. It was so nice to toast OUR house!

We got the keys at 4:45 this afternoon, drove over, changed to the fancy dancy new locks, did a few other things and popped out a window screen which I noticed was ripped. We'll get that repaired tomorrow. We're having someone from Sears come to the house tomorrow and give us a quote on carpetting...we've got the painter coming sometime next week...and we've got someone remeasuring the windows in the kitchen for the shutters (I guess their philosophy is measure twice, cut once). ;)

Just the joys of home ownership, I guess...

Oh yeah, and we have a crapload of packing left to do. We also found out that we have to pay taxes on Tuesday...meep!

13 comments:

D & S said...

Hooray, hooray! Can't wait to see the new digs. Congratulations my friend! Glad you celebrated in style.

Johnny said...

Aha! I can see your reflection in the bottle. THAT'S what you look like!


(made you look)

Sugar Cookies And Hope said...

Yay!!!!!!! That is so cool (okay, not the taxes, but the house)!:)
I hope that you and Josh have lots of happiness in your new pad.
P.S. I'm happy to have made you laugh with my email yesterday. I'm such a loser!!:P

Unknown said...

Awesome reason for champagne, cant wait to see pics

wzgirl said...

Congrats Little Maple Mama!

Middle-Aged Moi said...

What a great feeling, to OWN your own house! CONGRATS!!!

C's Mom said...

Woohoo - it's yours!

I gotta give Johnny points for that one. It was good.

Donna Paonessa said...

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! Welcome to the land of mortgage payments and property taxes. *grin*

"M" said...

Congratulations!!!! May you guys find much joy with this next stage of life.

aimeeg said...

Woohoo! Congratulations! Take time to forget about the taxes and home improvement crap and all that, and just enjoy your new home ownership!

"M2" said...

Woo Hoo!!!
I'm having a nice toast for you all the way down here

Catherine said...

Congrats on getting the keys to your new home! How nice that you have a few weeks to paint, clean and replace carpets before moving in.

M and M said...

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Whoo Hoo!!!