I didn't jinx us, everything worked out with our home purchase and we closed today at 3pm. It only took about 40 minutes. Grandpa Stan came down to watch Amelie while we signed our lives away (at an excellent interest rate). Here is our house. Tyler and my dad must be having a really important conversation.
It is a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom 1.5 story home in a PHENOMENAL neighborhood. There is a fireplace, dining room, and a partially finished basement...plus, I finally get to have an alley. We live about 3 blocks of
Minnehaha Parkway, 2 blocks from Lake Hiawatha (where there is a kiddie pool, beach, tennis courts, multiple
playsets and a park building), 2 blocks from
Minnehaha Creek, and we are within walking distance to Lake
Nokomis and Hiawatha Golf Course. It is exactly what we were looking for.
Ty and Stan went to pick up some supplies to start cleaning up the place. We will start that task tomorrow. Well, I won't be there, but Tyler and my dad will. It's a fixer upper, mostly cosmetic. We'll clean up the outside a bit, power wash the exterior and do some landscaping. The previous owners of the home were big time smokers, so the walls are yellowed and stained pretty bad. We are going to clean clean clean those walls then paint. We will update the kitchen and appliances and the bathroom as well.
Andy the Human is going to help us with the tile and Ben will be over helping us with a variety of other things. We've got 2 weeks, we may have to stay at my parent's house for a little bit, but I'm hoping my dad uses that as some motivation to work really hard to help us get all this stuff done.
I love our big backyard, which is pretty much a blank slate at the moment. There are no trees, no gardens, no patio...just a really skinny walkway to the garage at the side of the yard. Oh, and a birdbath and built in gas grill. I can see a playhouse, a sandbox, a glorious garden and a tree or 2 back there in the near future.
When we get started on the work I think I will do some before, during and after photos.
In baby news, I swear Amelie is going to start crawling any second. When she's on her belly she
brings her legs up into the crawling position and is able to turn herself around in circles. All she needs to do is coordinate that leg movement with the arms and she'll be crawling like crazy. Not for a while though I hope. We have some baby-proofing to do.
She is crazy strong. She was practically standing by herself today. I was holding her because she doesn't have the balance to stand on her own, but she sure has the strength. That girl can make herself stiff as a board.
Grandma Mike came for a visit yesterday, brought me
Chipotle. It was the first thing I was able to eat and I almost chewed through the container to get at it.
Now we just have to finish packing a million boxes and sorting through our things for our garage sale on Saturday and Sunday. Luckily, Grandma D is coming down to help us Friday and Saturday.
Amelie's new favorite things are:
Supergirl
and
her bouncer.
She giggles and laughs like crazy when we do
Supergirl and hold her over our heads. It's so cute. She drools all over my face, chest and shoulders, but it's worth it. Also, she is slowly figuring out all the entertainment possibilities her bouncer (not hers actually, loaned to us by a friend) has to offer.
Andy, Tova, and Tyler just went over to our house so they could check it out and talk tile I guess. I'm just waiting for him to get home so we can have a celebratory glass of "we just bought a new house" champagne.
The fireplace.
