Owning a house takes lots of work!!

So since we've closed, we've been at the house every day all day long! So far we're mostly done w/the master bathroom (needs another coat of paint and the tile needs to be grouted) and the kitchen is all painted! We still have lots of work to do before we move in but it's getting done slowly yet surely. I'll be posting pics soon since we're on the brink of getting a few things done, I want all to see the evolution from crap to marvelous! AND, thankfully, we're getting helpers this weekend! Two of my bestest friends from CO are coming out to help us! Whoo hoo! I'm so excited to see and get to spend time with them! And they are both amazing workers so we know we're going to get tons done! There will be lots of pics w/them too! Stay tuned, more to come!

1 year married and we still haven't killed each other yet!

So yesterday, May 16, was our 1 year wedding anniversary! It's hard to believe it, especially for us since it doesn't even feel like it's been a year! Since we're buying a house (trying to be responsible to young if you ask me!!) we decided it wouldn't be very responsible of us to go away, even for the weekend. Orginally, before this whole house thing, we thought about several different options such as: carribean cruise, greece, italy, hawaii, bed and breakfast in oregon, b and b in napa valley (which is only 1.5hrs away!). We really really wanted to go to hawaii but apparently it's pretty expensive to not only fly there but also stay and eat food. So, we thought this year we would go low-key and then next year do something wonderfully exciting!
So what did we do you ask? We went the river with our friends Darrel and Amanda (and their little guy Liam). They are pretty much our only friends here right now, besides our realtor (who is a older grandma but spunky as any 20 yr old!). None of us had been down to the river yet so we thought it would be fun to go down and hang out, splash in the water some, and just enjoy the beginnings of summer. The bottom pics reflect that attitude-boys in the water, girls no where to be seen (I was taking the pics!!) Darrel found a craw-dad crawling around so of course we had to pick it up and show it off-he was really big! And pretty fiesty!
Matt and I had dinner reservations in downtown Sacramento; a little Italian place called Biba. It was sooo yummy! I had duck while Matt had a meat trio thing, pork and chicken. It was a pretty fancy place, even though there were still some shmos who thought it was appropriate to wear jeans! It irritates me when people don't dress properly for the environment or occasion. Anyhew, after dinner we walked down to this dessert dinner a few blocks away. The diner was ok but the walk was really nice; the weather was just a little warm but downtown Sac was really nice. We didn't feel like we were in a city at all; it was so quiet and quaint. Overall is was a nice first anniversary, not at all what we were hoping for or planning to do in the beginning but it was great for us and we look forward to many more to come!

Outside Biba









My outfit w/sassy shoes!






















At the dessert diner-Matt eating, what else is new? And me looking into space, again, nothing new there!
















Liam, the boys, the craw-dad!

CAUTION, THIS IS NASTY!!

So I've been cleaning the house like a mad-woman and the master shower is pretty nasty. The drain was seemingly a little clogged and there was hair stuck on the drain cover as is, so I take it off to get the hair off, and there is hair stuck on the sides too! So I pull it and out comes this HUGE glob. I slightly freak out thinking how big and gross this thing is. And I kept pulling and it keeps coming. The sheer size and nature of this thing warranted me taking pics of it to show my battle with the ginormous hairball! seriously, it was moldy and soggy and huge. So, here it is. Look at it with caution, as you may want to vomit while looking at it, which is what I want to do every time I see it. Even when I pick up the garbage bag that has it in there, I have to wear my trusty rubber gloves to not feel contaminated by it.

Mom and I being silly with our ponies!

So while we were in UT we went for a ride the last day we were there. Dad and Matt walked the dogs while mom and I rode our favorite ponies! After we were done on the little trail mom and I goofed off. Our horses are so good; look how happy my old guy is the whole time! Ears up and looking perky! They are so good to put up with our silliness, esp Rusty. The pics show our fun!

Appraisal Tomorrow!

AHHH! So this is a big deal. If this doesn't go well then it could really pro-long the closing process for the house...so it needs to go well. We're not worried about it; just ready for it to be over so we can finally close and have a place to live! I'm so ready to get out of this hotel and be living a normal day to day again! And we're excited to actually start doing what we've been planning on doing; paint, floors, yard work-all of it. So please pray and keep your finers crossed that all goes well tomrorow and we'll be able to finally close!
Also, I found out I get to start cleaning! YAY!! Time to put on the groadie jeans and start washing walls, cleaning ovens, vaccuming up dead bugs and spiders, and get ready to steam clean once we close! So excited!

1166 Amarillo Court

This is it!! Cute huh? So this is what the house looks like as is right now. After we're done painting and doing the floors and other stuff I'll post those pics too. Like a before and after shots! We are so excited to be getting a place of our own and to hopefully be moving in very soon! Everyone needs to come see us once we're settled to check out our new place!
So the sequence of the pics goes as follows: outside, small front left room (like a sitting area), front right room (like an office), kitchen, living room, living room (we have a fireplace...not really necessary in cali but whatever!), kitchen, master bedroom, master bath (don't think you can see the CARPET on the bath floor!!), other bath, 1 of the rooms (there are 2 extra rooms but this was the worse color one!), then lastly the hurting backyard. So as you can see, hopefully, we need to paint very badly. I'm also going to redo the front plants and also do some planting (esp a tree or 2) in the back since it faces southwest and gets lots of sun! Let us know what you think! We have just been so blessed through this process and God has really been working out the kinks and making it go so smoothly! Praise Him! Hopefully we'll be in by memorial day weekend!!


















































So a few weeks ago it rained a bit out here and we went out to the house and discovered several of these guys suctioning themselves across the back door! I thought they were fun so we took a pic on one, which was hard to do! Stupid camera had a hard time focusing, but we got one good one! I wonder if he got a head rush as all going down like that ;)

Inspection today!

In just a few hours, here will be an inspection at what may become our first home!It's so exciting! If all goes well and inspection pasts, pics will be posted super soon! I'll take lots of pics at inspection today in preparation of posting!