was it worth it?

HELL YA! We have a HOUSE baby! We have signed ourselves away to a gorgeous property in Chino Hills: 4-bedroom with a loft, 3-car garage (mandatory for the Mr.), granite countertops, upgraded lighting, shutters, crown molding...WOOHOO! We agonized over this house for the longest, and after all the waiting, headaches, and paperwork, the deal is done and we have a place to call our own. This is HUGE! I'm so excited! Today we started our heavy duty cleaning...we were each armed with a steam machine, and we attacked the first floor. Next weekend, the second floor gets to endure our cleaning frenzy. We changed most of the light bulbs to more energy-efficient ones (hey, now that we're footing the bill, we gotta do this right!), we changed the batteries to all the smoke detectors...and we did a thorough vacuuming of cobwebs. This is AWESOME! I've never been this enthusiastic about CLEANING before...hehe, I guess it really is different when it's YOURS. ;-)

house

just got a call from our realtor. looks like we're good to go! funding is in place, and the everything will be recorded tomorrow morning. so me and francis will head over to the house at noon to do our final walkthrough, and brant will give us our keys! aggghhh! what a way to start our vegas weekend! brant said it was good we took the time to hand deliver the loan documents to the escrow company on tuesday...that saved a day, which helped us meet our deadline of tomorrow 5pm. man, if we didn't drive down to san juan capistrano, we would have lost the house!

numero #1

we got our first wedding present today! i didn't open it so i don't know who it's from...but it is from our macy's registry! THANK YOU!

are we done yet?

so what's the latest on the homefront. got a call from our realtor last night saying that we absolutely need to close escrow by friday 5pm. if we don't, then the seller is cancelling the deal. now, me and francis have made every effort to get this thing closed...in fact, we were ready to close this thing by the original deadline of may 27th. but the moons were not aligned, and our loan company needed more time to process documents and get appraisals and whatnot. so it was pushed to june 8th...and now it's pushed to this friday, the 12th. WHY IS THIS SO STRESSFUL! so the notary came over last night so we could sign the big 'ole stack of loan documents. instead of wasting time by waiting for a courier to drop off the docs, we took a half day off this morning to drive all the way down to san juan capistrano to personally hand over the loan packet, as well as sign off on the final addendums from the escrow company and fork over our money for the down payment and closing costs. so me and francis are done. and our realtor is going to take the time to drive down to san juan, pick up the docs, and take it to the funding department of our mortgage company, so whoever needs to get their money gets it and we can finally call this a done deal. aaaagggggggghhhhhhh!

thank goodness wwdc sold out and i was unable to attend this year's conference. i was really bummed, but then when i think about how much more complicated it would have been to get the housing stuff closed with me in san francisco...man, God works in mysterious ways....

as far as wedding stuff, i'm finally assembling the invitations! yay me! i don't think i'll be able to mail them out by the end of this week (since i'll be in vegas from friday through monday), but hopefully i'll be sending them out next week. gotta get the ball rolling again on this!

4 months!

crossing my fingers that we close escrow this week so i can get back to thinking about the wedding that's fast approaching!