I can't decide how I feel right now...

Happy or anxious... maybe a little of both!

There IS a little bit of good news...

The city gave their final approval so now were just waiting for the bank (Wells Fargo) to draft up the final loan docs (Basically, here sign your life away J/k but no really here sign this paper for a 30 year loan, yeah don't worry that you will be 59 when its paid off). I will admit that this is probably the GREATEST loan ever... I'm just a little bitter that this process is taking so long... and by long I'm being a tad dramatic since we just started the process in February... Some people go 6+ months waiting just to get approvals in this market. I just have zero patience so Praise Jesus for Dennis, otherwise I would be going insane and bugging everyone daily to get some sort of answer.

I was really hoping that we would get the house before Memorial Day weekend. It's not looking too promising as it stands now... We just heard that the bank wants a new Termite clearance before they can draft up the loan docs. To top it off the Termite company is swamped so they won't even be able to supply it until Friday or Monday... Another wasted 3 days...

I guess I should just be happy that we are getting a house and not be such a buzz kill...

I just want to be in OUR house already! :)

On another note. I have decided that I really have an interest in DIY projects... Not just in the I watch HGTV all day, and see something I like and say "oooh that would be awesome, I soo want that" (which we totally do) I really, really want to start making stuff. I guess simply put: I want to make ugly stuff pretty! I was thinking about making a new blog but I think I'm just going to keep this old blog and make it more about the house and things we do since in reality the house is going to be the focus in our lives... 

(I really want to post a picture of the house right here, but since I'm superstitious I'm going to wait until the keys are in hand. I have a feeling there will be a picture of that too!)

So....

Were STILL in escrow... The anticipated closing date is May 12, 2011. Since the city still has to do the inspection (should happen this Tuesday: May 11) I'm assuming that we aren't going to close for another week or so... Then after the city signs off on the house, it's just the documents that need to be signed. That shouldn't take that long (fingers crossed).

I can't help but keep thinking: Please hurry people! I want to get into our house already :)

We have design ideas already and have mostly decided on paint colors and all of that good stuff. I was pretty schocked about the variety of paint colors. Behr has like 16+ shades of Grey. Seriously... as if standing in front of the paint display isn't hard enough. You find the perfect shade of whatever color and then you have to find a color that matches that base color. Not to mention that you have to be mindful that the color dries darker on the wall then on the little piece of paper.
I think I need to stop watching home improvement shows... They keep giving me ideas. Right now I think about the house as a blank sheet. Every show I watch they do some nice wall art or stripe or something that I fall in LOVE with. Unfortunately I fall in LOVE a lot with DIY shows and poor Dennis cant keep up, since I keep changing my mind...

I just can't wait to get started! Will be updating along the way :)