It's Official!

We are homeowners!

Friday was CRAZY. Not only was it Halloween, but it was also the day we did our final walk through and signed on the house.

I woke up at 4 am and started the day with a BIG pot of coffee. We got the boys up and dressed, gave them their Dink of Milk and then we went out for breakfast together, which is really rare. We normally never eat out for breakfast. The boys loved it. They ate lots of pancakes, biscuits, sausage, chicken, and hash browns. They still don't like eggs much. I don't get it? I thought all kids liked eggs? Even I liked eggs as a child.

Then they went to Oma and Opa's so that Jason and I could go to our final walk through. We were shocked that they got 99% of the "issues" we found corrected already. There were just a few very minor things we saw and there was a touch up painter who followed us around to correct all the mistakes. When we were done there, we left to go to the title company to sign on the house. Once we got there, it took about 2 hours for them to actually GET all the paperwork but once it was there, it took us less than an hour to sign it and go through it all. Simple!

Then we went back to the old house to pick up the dogs and went to Oma and Opa's to pick up the boys. We got to OUR house, Jason dashed off to grab us some dinner, we ate, got the boys dressed up in their costumes and took them trick-or-treating. They weren't in the best mood to go trick-or-treating, that's for sure. Man! Jason and I ended up having to carry them around ourselves for most of the night so needless to say, it was a very short trick-or-treating experience. But it was really neat to get to meet some of our neighbors...and take candy from them. LOL. We got pretty good candy, too. None of that generic stuff.

It was SUCH a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG day.

After we got the boys undressed, into their PJ's and into bed we decided to start painting the boys room (it was about 9:00 p.m. by then). We ran out of paint before we ran out of energy, shockingly enough.

When we were done with that, we decided it was time to blow up the ole' blow up mattress. We took out the mattress and pump and I asked Jason, "where's the plug?"
"What plug?"
"For the mattress pump." I said.
"There IS no pump. It said it came with batteries."
"I don't see any batteries either."
We searched our empty room high and low for these batteries that were included until I re-read the box and it said, "Batteries NOT included."

Grrrrrrrrr. At this point, I just wanna lay down and pass out and Jason, being the amazing husband that he is says that he will drive up to a gas station to buy some extremely overpriced batteries. At this point, it's probably 10:30 pm or so.

While Jason was driving all over San Marcos trying to find some batteries I thought it would be the perfect time to take a long hot shower. I turn on the tub in the master bath and it's COLD. I decide to let it warm up while I do something else and when I came back...it was still freezing cold.

Come to find out, we don't think it was ever plugged in? We called Our Man Fernando who said he'd get someone RIGHT on it, which he did. As soon as we got home from the store, the sales guy's car was blocking our driveway so we parked down the street. The sales guy went in and checked out the hot water heater and that's how him and Jason came to the conclusion that it was never plugged in.

It's a HUGE water heater. It's 55 gallons. I'm assuming that's why Jason and the sales guy didn't just plug it in themselves...I still don't know for sure...but we were told that they'd call out an electrician. Wait...I think the words that were used were "emergency electrician." Ok. We'll sit around and wait. Meanwhile, Jason got three phone calls from random people apologizing for this.

We waited. And waited. Until we simply couldn't wait anymore and we had to take the boys to eat dinner. And since we still have no hot water, we called Our Man Fernando back and said something like, "We need to bathe not just ourselves but our kids too and we can not wait around here anymore today (it was about 5 pm...we called him initially at 10 am). It seems someone has dropped the ball yet again.

Let's see....so far we've got and added $1000 because they made an error and never notified us that our floor plan would be flipped. Then just recently we got an added 10x10 patio out back because they didn't call us like they told us they would. What now? A garage door opener?

Anyway.

Today we had Nana, Grandpa Mark, Aunt Cheryl, Uncle Dale and Aunt Laurie over to see the house. It was soooo nice getting to see everyone and having them come over to check the place out. Everyone is so proud of us and it makes us all the more proud.

Now we are back at the old house because this is the only place with hot water and two cribs. We will be going back to OUR house tonight to sleep but we needed to freshen up so we thought we'd sop to watch the UT game. We are about to turn off the TV though because the way the Longhorns are playing is making us sick.

I'm going to end this blog now because it's already much longer than intended. Goodnight everyone! I hope you all had a safe and fun Halloween!