oh yeah, i forgot to mention: we're in escrow!
the house isn't ours yet, but this is going in the right direction! eeeeeek!!
Thursday, April 30, 2009
getting closer!
i haven't blogged in a while. 156 days and counting! GEEPIS! it's already the end of april...time is passing by extremely fast. so what's new?
1. my dress came in! i had my first fitting a little more than a week ago. i am definitely better adjusted now than i was when i started shopping for a wedding gown. i was excited this time around instead of being freaked out! so i tried on my gown with my jimmy choos and walked back and forth across the salon floor with my mom looking on with the camera. cheese! my second fitting will be next monday. i may need to add sleeves. got word back from the church that my shoulders need to be covered up. BOO.
2. house hunting. what a process. getting your first house is an exciting time, but it's so not a fun thing to do. it's stressful and emotionally draining. sure it's easy looking at properties online and then telling your realtor you want to do a walkthrough. but the bidding process? ugh. sure, the houses that we couldn't afford two years ago are now within our price range, but we're not the only ones shopping. we were about to bid on one house in a newer development in chino hills, but i drove through with my parents and realized the chino prison was jogging distance away. NO WAY! so we scrapped that idea. then we bid on one house the day it was listed on the market, but someone was quicker and higher, and the seller took the other bidder's offer. moving on. we bid on a short sale in march, and all we know now is that "it's in process". short sales are never a guarantee, so we continue to look for properties. found a really nice house in our "ideal" area of chino hills. placed a bid. the listing agent wanted us to make a counteroffer, but we declined because it was a house we really "liked", not "loved". another offer won out. so we keep looking...and looking...and looking. did i mention we had three realtors at the same time? but we picked our fave and have been really happy with him since.
3. my 27th birthday was last sunday. my parents weren't around. they left for an alaskan cruise the day before! ABANDONMENT! but francis and my sister spent the weekend with me. i wasn't feeling up to do anything anyway, i was pretty exhausted the entire weekend. the house stuff made me sick! but we did manage to have a nice dinner at tony roma's. my favorite!! yum yum :-)
4. we booked the dj/emcee for the wedding. he's from bino's entertainment. after sitting and talking to him for a bit, you could immediately tell that he's a cool guy who's going to make the event fun. so that makes me even more excited! i think the only thing left is the limo, but francis has already selected the company for that.
so that's it in a nutshell. keep checking back for updates!
1. my dress came in! i had my first fitting a little more than a week ago. i am definitely better adjusted now than i was when i started shopping for a wedding gown. i was excited this time around instead of being freaked out! so i tried on my gown with my jimmy choos and walked back and forth across the salon floor with my mom looking on with the camera. cheese! my second fitting will be next monday. i may need to add sleeves. got word back from the church that my shoulders need to be covered up. BOO.
2. house hunting. what a process. getting your first house is an exciting time, but it's so not a fun thing to do. it's stressful and emotionally draining. sure it's easy looking at properties online and then telling your realtor you want to do a walkthrough. but the bidding process? ugh. sure, the houses that we couldn't afford two years ago are now within our price range, but we're not the only ones shopping. we were about to bid on one house in a newer development in chino hills, but i drove through with my parents and realized the chino prison was jogging distance away. NO WAY! so we scrapped that idea. then we bid on one house the day it was listed on the market, but someone was quicker and higher, and the seller took the other bidder's offer. moving on. we bid on a short sale in march, and all we know now is that "it's in process". short sales are never a guarantee, so we continue to look for properties. found a really nice house in our "ideal" area of chino hills. placed a bid. the listing agent wanted us to make a counteroffer, but we declined because it was a house we really "liked", not "loved". another offer won out. so we keep looking...and looking...and looking. did i mention we had three realtors at the same time? but we picked our fave and have been really happy with him since.
3. my 27th birthday was last sunday. my parents weren't around. they left for an alaskan cruise the day before! ABANDONMENT! but francis and my sister spent the weekend with me. i wasn't feeling up to do anything anyway, i was pretty exhausted the entire weekend. the house stuff made me sick! but we did manage to have a nice dinner at tony roma's. my favorite!! yum yum :-)
4. we booked the dj/emcee for the wedding. he's from bino's entertainment. after sitting and talking to him for a bit, you could immediately tell that he's a cool guy who's going to make the event fun. so that makes me even more excited! i think the only thing left is the limo, but francis has already selected the company for that.
so that's it in a nutshell. keep checking back for updates!
Saturday, April 4, 2009
6 months!
the clock is ticking folks. in LESS than 6 months, i'll be walking down the aisle at St. Denis! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!
i have to remember to call the bridal salon tomorrow. where's my dress?!?
i have to remember to call the bridal salon tomorrow. where's my dress?!?
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