Once we got to our house we did the final walk through and everything looked great...well most everything. The master closet door was a little messed up and the doorbell wasn't working, but all things they could fix before we got back from closing.
We headed over to closing and apparently there was some miscommunication between the lender and our closing agency so we were pushed back a few hours. This definitely put a kink in my timeline for the day. I had everything working out perfectly...to the minute! We would now just barely make it to the U-Haul place right before they closed. Time to just drive around and kill time...not to mention waste gas! They were finally ready for us so we headed back up there.
Closing wasn't such a bad experience everyone makes it out to be. Maybe Chance and I just write incredibly fast, but we were only there for an hour and had there not been so much chit chatting I bet we could have been done in 45 minutes.
Chance and I after we finished closing:
So now that we were finished we were ready to receive our keys....at least that's what we thought was going to happen, that's how it happens in the movies! You go to closing and when you're done you get the keys on the spot...yeah not so much. We were then told that we could go pick up the keys from our sales guy who has an office in the model home in the neighborhood. Now we really aren't making it to the U-Haul place before it closes...but we were still super excited, so here we are in the car headed to the model home for our keys.
So we drove all the way across town back to the house and were so excited, as soon as we walked in I had a huge smile on my face, my hands laid out and ready to receive those keys! Yeah....not so fast...the funds had to be cleared on everyone's ends, so Chance and I sat in the model home living room starring at each other...excitement and energy level went from about a 10 to a 2. We decided to walk over to our house to check it out since the doorbell man was there and we knew it would be unlocked. All we did all day was sit around and wait for people! Now we really weren't going to make it to U-Haul before they closed, so I called my little brother and he ran up there and grabbed the truck for us. Thanks Nate :)
Once funds cleared we finally received our keys. We zoomed out of the neighborhood and flew back to Rockwall....and by fly I mean we actually rolled because we were now in 5 o'clock traffic...oh joy! On the drive home I looked over at Chance and I said "Sure hope these keys work! ha" We were so determined to get to Rockwall before traffic started that we didn't even bother to go by our house to test them...but they had a tag on them that had our address and the doorbell guy had just handed them back to the sales guy so we felt kind of ok about them working, but secretly deep down I was freaking out.
We finally made it back to Rockwall, hung out for a bit, ate dinner, enjoyed the last few minutes being at my parents house, and then started packing the U-Haul. We ended up having SO MUCH STUFF that we filled the biggest U-Haul you could rent (made for a 4 bedroom house) and my car and it took us a really long time. It's now about 9:30pm and we start the 70 mile journey to the town we will now call home, Fort Worth.
We make it to Fort Worth in a little over an hour, Chance was driving the U-Haul way too fast! ;)
Pull up to the house, put the keys in the door...and the keys don't work...haha just kidding! They totally worked, we walked in and just looked around and couldn't believe it was ours.
A few pics, that I actually had taken the next morning:
Time to start the unpacking process...wow we have a ton of stuff! I seriously couldn't believe it. Good thing we came here instead of going to our storage unit because there is no way anything else would fit in the truck. (Keep in mind we didn't stack things on top of some of the furniture, so we didn't really fill every space to the U-Haul.)
Nate had come with us to help, and good thing he did because we would've been working all night! We finished, went in, all showered, relaxed and crashed. What a day!
The next morning the AT&T U-verse guy showed up and was ready to install the internet and TV. He asked where our TVs were so he could test everything out....and Chance and I just looked at each other and started laughing. We realized all of our TVs are in storage, which we hadn't gone to yet. Of course!
Chance and I had been talking about possibly buying a new TV for the living room and moving the living room TV into our room, and our room TV to the guest room. Well Chance jumped all over this opportunity and ran out to buy a new TV...now that that situation was solved, it was time to move to the next...why wasn't our doorbell working still?! We had some guys in the house working on that and after a few hours they finally fixed it. In the midst of finding the doorbell problem they had to break some of the bricks around the doorbell, so then we had a bricker come over and fix that problem.
Chance returned with the TV and breakfast....oh thank goodness!
Our new TV: it looks like a baby but it's BIG!
The AT&T guy was still working on getting everything set up so the guys headed out to Denton to our storage unit to grab "a few things"...or so they thought. Over the past year and a half that we have had that unit I have been doing nothing but shopping, shopping and more shopping! I would sneak it to Denton every now and then and put it in storage. I wish I would've been there to see the look on Chance's face! I'm sure it was priceless. Thank goodness they took an empty truck because guess what....they filled it to the rim yet again! So 4 hours later the guys arrived back in Fort Worth...what did they do, play around in Denton? Geez guys! We seriously had so much stuff it took them about 2 hours to fill the U-Haul. By the time they arrived back we had thirty minutes to unload what took them 2 hours to load, and get the U-Haul returned by 5pm before getting charged with another day. So we frantically unloaded everything into the garage, slammed the doors shut, jumped in the cars and headed to the U-Haul location...oh but of course it's 4:30, prime traffic time! We sat at a red light, for I kid you not, 10 minutes, just starring at the U-Haul place, just not able to get close enough to turn into it.
We finally made it...a few minutes late...and returned it without getting any extra late charges. Thanks U-Haul guys!
Chance jumped in my car with Nate and I and we headed back to Rockwall to drop Nate off and pick up Rylee. We have moved with Rylee in the house once before and it's not something we ever want to do again, so we thought it would be best to leave her at my parents on moving night.
After a 2 hour drive we were back in Rockwall. My mom cooked us dinner and we hung out and watched a little football, and then headed back home. 11:30pm we are back at home...exhausted from the past 2 days that we didn't even touch a box in the garage. I did manage to put some sample paint colors on the wall to test.
Friday morning:
We woke up very refreshed and ready to tackle the day. We had taken off work from Wednesday-Friday so we had plenty of time to focus on unpacking. We decided we would start with paint, because we figured it would take the longest and we couldn't really hang anything until the paint was up. I still remember our first trip to Home Depot. It's actually the first business you come to when you pull out of our neighborhood. We walked in...not knowing much about home improvement, other than he did Habitat for Humanity style work every summer and I watch a ton of HGTV. So we bought our paint...asked the Home Depot employee about rollers and took his advide on buying the "smooth" rollers.
Just a little painting tip - If you have a thick, deep wall texture, invest in a more expensive thicker fuller roller because we didn't, we bought the "smooth" roller since the paint guy at Home Depot suggested it...O.M.G. we rolled and rolled and rolled and rolled for literally the ENTIRE day and only finished a third of the social areas. I figured we would focus a whole day on painting and just knock it all out...yeah NOT! Not to mention we are painting grey over white so you have to roll over the area like 17 times to get all the white specs covered.
The first room we started in was the study...at this point we were still excited, had the music going, windows open...it was FUN! And of course Rylee is supervising.
6 hours later Stacey, Mandy and the boys all came over. At this point painting wasn't much fun anymore, but it had to get done so Chance and I continued painting while Mandy and Stacey were bringing boxes in and organizing all of our new accessories in one of the extra bedrooms. We finally called it a night after we couldn't pick the rollers up anymore.
The home warming basket my sisters brought us, the best starters you could imagine! And after hours of painting, we dug right into the wine!
My sisters collected all our throw pillows and called me into the room to have an intervention...I don't know what they are talking about...this is not too many pillows, because it's impossible to have too many throw pillows...what do you think?! ;)
Saturday morning: Mandy, Stacey and the boys headed out early so Jax could make his soccer game and Chance's parents came in town. I was so glad we had two more helpers to help paint because...as sad as this is to say, Chance and I were sore! And Chance had to run to work for a few hours so it would've been me painting all by myself, and let's be real, I would've gotten bored and ADD would've kicked in and I would've been in the extra bedroom playing with all our new stuff. So they helped keep me motivated.
It was such a nice day so Rylee took a break from supervising the painting and needed to go get a tan on her new patio.
We literally painted an entire day again! And guess what, even with the three of us we only got another third completed. I couldn't believe how long it was taking...it just didn't seem right. Again, we used the "smooth" roller the paint guy at HD (that's what I call it since we go there so much now) suggested. Update: Mycah came over for a girls night and we painted...but this time we used a much thicker roller, and were able to finish the last third in a matter of minutes!
Chance got back from work and he and his dad turned their attention to decking the attic with extra wood my dad had left over from the outdoor kitchen project. Thanks so much dad, you literally doubled our storage area. The attic is now decked the entire size of our garage!
His mom and I focused on the inside and she helped me unpack and organize the kitchen. Because our stuff had been in storage for so long I wanted to wash EVERYTHING! I couldn't risk not knowing if any dirty little creature had used the restroom or walked across a plate or something. So in total we ran 14 loads of laundry and ran the dishwasher 19 times. WOW! Again...we have too much stuff!
During the afternoon, Lowe's had delivered our fridge...which BTW I'm obsessed with. Loving the French Doors so much! They also delivered our washer....we ordered a dryer as well but that location ended up not having one so it was scheduled to deliver the next day from another location.
His mom had brought over a few meals, which was so sweet and exactly what you need when you move into a new home, because we hadn't gone to the grocery store yet and at that point I was already sick of eating fast food.
They stayed the night and headed out early the next morning because his mom wasn't feeling well.
Sunday afternoon:
My parents showed up and we were so excited to show them around since the last time they were there the house was in the framing stages. The dryer arrived so we were able to show them all of our new appliances. My mom and I headed to the grocery store because we figured we would be gone a while...geez that first grocery store trip is expensive!
We came back and all ate a late lunch and then they headed out. It had been 5 whole days that we were in our house and we probably unpacked a total of 3 boxes. We were not ready to go back to work and needed another week off to work on unpacking. But unfortunately, that didn't happen and Monday morning came too soon.
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