Homeowners Again!

Hi y'all! Thought I would finally update you on last weeks happenings. On Memorial Day we set off for a 411 mile car trip from NC to our new town Gardendale, AL. Due to the holiday, it was a nice easy drive. Much more exciting than traveling in the other direction to Virginia Beach, a trip I know all to well. LOL! It was also our 7th wedding anniversary. We skipped the presents this year in lieu of a house.We arrived in Gardendale around 3ish. Birmingham reminds me of Tampa. So I think I will enjoy it. We stopped to see the house before heading to the hotel. Our subdivision is off of a country road with 1 lane in each direction and not much around. We are about 5 min from the Super Wal-Mart so we are not super secluded. Our street still has about 8 empty lots still available. We are 2 houses from the end of the cul-de-sac. Retirees live on either side of us but I am starting to see some 30 somethings to meet with little kids :) There is a huge new park minutes from the park with a splash playground. The town itself, is old, quaint and had a lot of new growth and development until things came to a standstill over the past year. They have movies on the lawn, an actual Christmas parade (not Holiday, thank goodness for the Bible Belt), garden shows, etc. We felt at home right away.

We spent Tuesday doing our walk through and were happy to see that the problems found on the home inspection like elecrical work had all been fixed. Note: If you ever find a new construction home please have a home inspection. We never would have found some serious things that came up on ours. After the walk through we headed to the south side of Birmingham to get a signature from the design studio. Basically saying "yeah we showed up and don't want their overpriced fixtures." On the way back we stopped at a huge open air mall that had all the things I missed. Pottery Barn, PB Kids, Restoration Hardeware, William-Sonoma, Vera Bradley, Cheesecake Factory, PF Changs, and a lot of other big name stores. Not that I would ever come out with much but I love to go in and browse. It's about 25 min away via the interstate.

Wednesday our closing got moved up 2 hourse ealiers. Yay! It litarally took 10 minutes to sign everything. Much faster than when we bought and sold our previous house. Less paperwork since you don't need all those background checks of previous owners. Homeowners again! I spent that afternoon and night going from store to store finding 2in faux wood blinds. Finally wound up at Lowes got what we needed for the whole house. Tim was in charge of that while I put shelving paper in and cleaned. The cleaning was very easy since it was just a fine layer of building dust. I had the whole house wiped down in less than an hour.

Thursday we received Jacob's new bead frame, fridge and HE washer and dryer. I must say, so far the HE washer and dryer is a dream. So quiet when it runs. Supposedly it saves a lot in waterh and electric. We also decided that we would head back to NC since we were done and had an empty house.

Friday we packed up and left.
So that was our week. Jacob was very happy to come back to grandma and grandpa's house and play with toys and have a tv.