We bought a house... We think.

After hours of online search's, house visits, and a few disappointments we are finally closing on a house! Or at least we think...

With a little blue ink we officially signed the contracts Monday afternoon and are just waiting for the bank to finalize a closing date.  The date is temporarily set for this Friday, a full two weeks before our contracts mandatory closing date. Please, please... say a prayer for me that this actually happens.

All last week we were in a state of shock/excitement that we had completed negotiations (big kid life moment).  We were impatiently waiting for the inspections to be completed so we would know for sure that this would be our future house. Actually i was a nervous wreck, and i'm fairly certain if the inspection had gone badly i would have secretly locked myself in a room and cried like a baby. I have completely fallen in love with this house & the vision of what it could be.

Speaking of that vision, it also hit us last Thursday that we had a million and one decisions to make before we could move in...aka potentially 7 days later. I made a rather frantic call to my mother and blabbered at 100 mph that i didn't know how we were going to pick carpet, trim boards, paint, basically our whole game plan for the eventual remodel, before we have to be out of our apartments and have quite a bit of work done.  The living room carpet covered in... well i don't want to know must go!

Enter Betty Lou stage left... you should be picturing Cinderella's fairy godmother appearing in a cloud of sparkly magic... only this fairy god mother replaced ball gowns & glass slippers with paint decks & carpet samples. My dream come true. My mother besides being a super mom also own's her own interior design business.  The carpet samples actually where whipped out of the office files but it really looked like magical pixie dust to me. By the time Derek & I arrived at my parents for the weekend, the dining room was covered in paint, wood, tile, granite basically every sample you could image and 100 magazines with flagged pages of idea's for us to consider. (she gathered all of this in a few hours that afternoon.. superwoman- her address is in SEK and she is disguised as a country housewife).  Derek's jaw dropped at the site of everything my mom had ready for us.
The decision process involved my mom & i  dancing around the room holding samples together, Derek just nodded his head at the appropriate times when we went over it. His only real interjection being that he wanted his recliners in the living room and that he liked my ideas on the paint. By the time we left Sunday night we had a preliminary game plan we were both happy with & just need to close on the house.

We are so excited for everything we have to look forward to in the next couple months!! Time to get started, oh & remember to say that prayer for our closing date :)