Settling In......

Well, it has been quite awhile since my last post and with good reason, I might add!
Bruce and I officially moved out of our condo on Saturday, February 23rd and not without some drama! The Friday before was "supposed" to be our closing on our condo and then we had the movers coming the next day to move all of our stuff into storage. BUT about an hour before the closing, I called our realtor to check in and make sure we were all set for 1 o'clock only to find out that we were in fact not going to close because the buying parties lenders had "lost the paperwork." WHAT?!?!?!?!?! How do you lose the lenders paperwork??? Was it handwritten - is there not a file saved on a computer somewhere? I don't understand! So, now we were going to reschedule for the following Monday. After a nervous breakdown, Bruce and I continued packing our lives into brown boxes and headed to my parents that evening to drop of our dog Mia. Around 6:30, I received another call from our realtor and this time the news was even worse! They hadn't lost any paperwork - there was NO PAPERWORK! The girl who was buying our place, we'll call her Susie, had tried to go through a brokers agency and it was a big fat scam! So, my realtor assured us that they had found a new lender that promised they could get it turned around in 1 - 2 days. So, let me just remind you that we were all set to close on our new home on Thursday afternoon (which we couldn't have done, had we not closed on our condo) and then board an airplane to take a vacation in Las Vegas. Needless to say, Bruce and I were both at our wit's end - not getting any sleep and worrying what would happen if we didn't close on the condo and we were living out of boxes for months.

SO, long story longer, they finally got the paperwork done we finally closed on Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. - and Susie was a TREAT...no wonder we had so many issues. We proceeded to close on our beautiful new home on Thursday at 1:00 - celebrated with lunch and beers at Atkins Park. Headed to the airport and made our way to glorious Las Vegas, NV! The perfect ending to a truly maddening couple of weeks!
Vegas was great! We ate wonderful food, drank ourselves silly, lost some money and went to the Nascar Race too! It was a spectacular time!

Came home on the red eye (will never do again) on Tuesday morning and moved our things into the new house that Friday. Our house is outstanding...it is absolutely gorgeous! I am falling in love with it more and more everyday. I think we found the perfect place to begin the next phase of our lives together. Life couldn't be any better if I had written the story myself!

Another update - I am no longer having my knee surgery on March 24th as originally planned. Some changes have come down at my work and I am taking on a whole slew of new responsibilities, so we did not think it was in my best interest to take a month off of work. To be completely honest, I am relieved. I am so happy that I get to take some time and get settled into our new home and really enjoy it with Bruce. The surgery will happen eventually just not positive when! :)

I think that is about it for the moment! More updates coming soon!!
Carrie