Day One!!

We own a house! Or I could say Bank of Oklahoma owns us. On friday afternoon we closed on our home! First we headed over to the BOk mortgage headquarters to sign all of the construction loan paperwork. Our friendly construction loan lady reminded us that we do have to pay for that, apparently some people these days just don't realize they are actually promising to pay, go figure. Also we must keep the house insured or she will be very angry with us, which is a little hard to imagine considering she is miss bubbly!

So then we headed over the title company and met our realtor and signed a bunch more papers and handed them the check for the property! The title now says we own 303 N. Tacoma! We headed over to the house right afterwards even though we've seen it a bunch of times because we were so excited!!! Ha our loan lady asked us if we were going to spend the night there but we decided not too considering the state of the inside :). We did stay long enough for some neighbors to see us though (which we found out the next day).

Alright work day number one!! On Saturday we headed out to start conquering the quarter acre yard we just acquired. Here are some pics of the progress (after almost two hours of yard mowing and pulling weeds and vines from the sidewalk).



Spencer mowing the gigantic yard. He's already working on ways to garden so there's less yard to mow :)



The beautifully mowed yard!



The sidewalk! Okay this might not look that exciting but before you couldn't see the concrete at all!! I piled six trash bags full of dirt and weeds and long vines.



All the trashbags!



Random art. Okay random stuff I picked up from the yard and porch.

Alright but now for the best part. We met our neighbors! Across the street is Peaches and her grand kid Niko (who has already been offered to us to help clean the ivy of the house whenever we need it ~ sweet!). Her two daughters live down the street along with a set of twin grand babies who are "double trouble" and will "tear your house right up." ha. Then today after church we met our next door neighbors who were glad to see that no weird couple moved in next store, which apparently they'd been afraid of. They thought we looked relatively normal ;). Apparently we are also "really young" according to the neighbors who have mostly lived there for over twenty years. They offered to watch our house for us though, so looks like we'll be safe. Alright not thinking of anything else right now ~ more on the construction part to follow soon!