Walk-through....sort of

Well, yesterday we did our preliminary walk-through. We're going back tomorrow early evening for the final, as there were still a lot of little things for them to do. We knew that, so it wasn't a surprise. Good news- we got our clear to close yesterday! My husband is the greatest mortgage man in the entire world and I love him! Praise God for someone who understands that stuff. :-)

Click here to view some shots I took during the walk through. I think you have to be signed up on Flickr so if you haven't done that and need help, let me know. I also have my pics all set to viewable only by friends and family, so if you need to be added let me know. Also let me know if you need reminding of your username, as some of you have two. (Mom :-) More on the house to come...

Anyone have any fun Halloween plans? Jordan and I are going to the Cole's- good friends of ours from church along with a few other people. We're really hoping it doesn't rain as it's forecasted to- we want to be able to meet some people in the neighborhood as they're coming around with their kids. I will post pics of the two 2-year olds that will be with us: Cadence and Ethan- only like the 2 most adorable children in the world. Maybe I can find out how to post a video, b/c Cadence is hilarious and will most likely say something I'll wish I had on video. Jenny (Ethan's mom) told me yesterday that he wanted to be a pickle- so I am excited to see how that turns out. Oh, the things we do....

Please be praying for my sister & brother-in-law, Dan & Erin. Dan's dear granfather passed away in Indiana last night. He had been diagnosed recently with cancer in his lungs and it's been a difficult process for them of saying goodbye to a dear and very loved family member. Dan is currently in Indiana and Erin is flying up tomorrow for the memorial. He knew the Lord, so we are rejoicing in that, but it is always difficult to let go.

Love you all....have a wonderful night tonight with friends and family or whatever you may be doing.

Painting Fun

Well yesterday was seriously quite the day! We had a Newsong Family Service yesterday morning, so our congregation went up to Cool Springs for the 11:00 service which was wonderful! Worship was powerful- the word was strong and Dr. Shibley's word was timely and very good. I still have a lot to process about what he said and spoke over us.

Afterwards, Jordan and I went over to Mom & Dad's to eat lunch and watch football. We had such a treat- as we got to watch the entire Indy game- SO good, and they remain undefeated! Go Colts!!!

We headed back over to our apartment about 6:00 (it was so dark though, it felt like 9:00) and began moving stuff around and getting ready to paint. Ian arrived shortly after, and he and I started priming the dining room. Chris, Ferris and Robby showed up too and helped us immensley! I've packed up pretty much the whole pantry and kitchen already, so I rummaged around and found eggs, turkey sausage, pancake stuff and Ferris and I made "Breakfast for Dinner." (Side Note- do you like Ferris's painting of her UT stripes on our wall? GO VOLS! End Side Note) I sent Ferris and Jordan to the store to find boxes and pick up a few things, but when they couldn't get boxes at Food Lion or at Walgreen's, Robby proceeded to stop at Walmart on his way over and show up with a car full of Chiquita banana boxes! It is so funny what you end up packing stuff in....anything and everything you can find!

Thanks to everyone's help, we got everything done except a second coat of primer in the kitchen, which J & I will finish tonight. We have our walk through shortly, so I'll try and take some pictures, as promised. Very exciting!!! It was a really fun night. I think they only thing that could have made it better would be having my lil' bro around. I MISS DYLAN! :-)

At this point- I think we're going to hold off on painting our bedroom. The greens just haven't worked and I don't think I have time this week to try and hunt down the perfect color. I will take your advice, Trish and go to Home Depot for some colors. I think I'll probably get everything in and then have you come over once we have it in to see what you recommend at that point.

Oh, and I've told Jordan he's going to need to post a statement about the gotee. We are really getting mixed reviews here and I fear mutiny! We'll see what happens...

More pictures and fun stories to come.....

It is most definitely Fall- and the leaves are actually changing- it's beautiful!

Today looks beautiful! What an amazing fall day it's going to be. Jordan and I have several errands to run, but it looks like we've sold my old keyboard that's been living under my poor sister's bed for a couple of years now. I saw a posting on Craigslist for a guy looking for a keyboard, emailed him and asked a price and he said he'd take it! Sounds great to me! So we're going to meet him in 30 minutes to exchange products....he gets the music, we get the cash! :-)

Other items on the agenda for the day are looking at yet another green paint color- I am about to abandon the Porter Paints' greens....might try Benjamin Moore or Behr. Again, any suggestions are welcome! Seriously.

We'll be doing more packing. I made it through our cds last night. Anyone who knows me (or Jordan) knows what a task this is. I alone brought 500-600 cds into the marriage (my contribution) and this amount of music cannot be just thrown away. I found tons of duplicates, so if anyone needs a Smitty "Christmastime", "Romeo & Juliet Soundtrack" or a Blues Traveler "Four" let me know.

We're off! Happy Saturday and enjoy your beautiful Fall day!

TGIF!

Not too much has changed in the past day. We have a few more boxes stacked up, a couple more calls made and we're back again to square one with the paint color. The color I thought would work oh-so-well isn't working for us now that it's FULLY dried. Jordan took the board down with him to the house right now- he's checking out the progress. I am wondering if green is just not our color. If you have any good suggestions, please let us know, because I feel a little stuck at this point.

We're going to the Mission's Conference again tonight and then packing and working all day tomorrow. We'll probably have the TV on and keep an eye on College GameDay....I would LOVE that as I haven't gotten to watch a single college fball game ALL YEAR! What has become of my life? Oh, just kidding, just kidding....

We did get a bit of good news yesterday! The apartment complex manager came up to our place to look at the paint color that we have over most of the walls and told us that she is pretty confident that we will NOT have to repaint all the walls! Now THAT is exciting stuff. We have to paint the bright orange in our kitchen and the blue in our bathroom, but that'll be easy if we don't have to paint the rest.

Jordan just called and said the house looks GREAT! I am so excited to see it. They are almost finished. I'll take pics at our walkthrough on Monday and post them for you to see.

Have a great Friday night. Oh yeah, and by the way, Jordan thinks he's growing the gotee back....any thoughts on this?

Won't You be my Neighbor?

Ohhh it's cold in my apartment. Jordan and I haven't turned on the heat yet, which is fine for most days, but there are occasions of severe chiliness- like the other morning when I woke up and it was 61 degrees- brrrrr! I'm about to take a quick work break to make something to eat. I am really craving some vegetables- I just feel like I havn't gotten my even-close-to adequate amount lately. With us preparing to move soon, I haven't exactly been planning and cooking regular meals, so I'm sure that's why I feel the way I do. Craving Chili's con queso doesn't help either....I had a MAJOR craving for it last night on the way home from the mission's conference, and my dear husband was good enough to stop and let me get some. So bad, but so good! (thanks Dad- I inherited that love from you!)

The conference was GREAT last night. The focus was on "neighbors" and they did this whole video/skit thing with one of the men in our church playing Mr. Rogers- and man, did he do a good job! I seriously wish I had a picture, he played the part SO well. The premise of the video was him riding his bike (old-skool, red, total Mr. Rogers's style) around Franklin and stopping at the different ministries that New Song supports in our "Neighborhood." Things like "Against the Grain," a place where single mother's can go to get practical, relational, emotional and spiritual needs met, "Feed Franklin First," a ministry to hungry people in Franklin, "Provision Ministries," a multi-faceted ministry in downtown Nashville, and "Mercy Children's Clinic" in Franklin. We had all of the leader's of the minstries with us, and they shared for a moment on their current needs- financially, physically and in prayer. We had the opportunity to connect with them and find out more about how we could be a part of it. Tomorrow night is the next night of the conference, with Sunday being the final session.

I think I may have finally found the right green to paint in our bedroom. Green is tough! The first one was too light, the second one too bright, but I think the third might be just right! (wasn't that cute? :-) I have one coat down on my "test board"...I'll be sure to let you know how it turns out.

Okay- broccoli time and then back to work!

Oh and yes, Nathan- Jordan did shave his gotee. He just got it in his head on Saturday and did it, although he hasn't shaved it since then- I think he's still trying to decide what he likes the best.

Boxes Galore!

Here is a picture of our living room, from my view at my little makeshift desk! (Which is currently a card table- it's funny!) We have boxes totally lining the hall, to the point that we can barely walk through. Moving day is going to be funny, because it's going to take a while before we can actually get to a point of MOVING things out....

We did quite a bit of packing last night. I got home about 7 and put together a Thai Chicken Pizza (mmm,mmm good!) for myself, Jordan and Ian- who was here helping us out. Jordan started going through the storage a bit last night and came across a couple of "keepsake" boxes so we did take a little detour looking through those. I found my "Jordan" file, where I had saved all sorts of little things from the time of our courtship and engagement, and Jordan found his keepsake box, full of lots of fun True Vibe stuff- he and Ian had fun looking through that.

I packed up more dishes and glasses, photo albums and such......we're definitely making headway, although moving around is becoming more and more of a challenge. Oh well, it is definitely an adventure!

We are going to the first night of the Mission's Conference at our church tonight...I am very excited about that! Should be really good! I'll keep you posted...

Yeah for Sales at my Favorite Store in the World!

Well here I am, finishing up the day....it was a pretty good day, too! Last night was a blast: me & Jordan, Kyle & Janelle, Sarah & Mike & Robby went downtown for Kyle's 25th b-day. We ate at Maggiano's, which was really good and extremely reasonable too. Jordan and I split a Caeser salad and a really yummy Shrimp Angel hair dish that had a spicy tomato red sauce. It was plenty of food, as it fed us for lunch today, too!

Since Jordan and I are days away from moving and still needing a few furniture items, we've both been checking out the classifieds, Craigslist and certain online stores pretty regularly...so I happened to look at Pier1.com this morning, and lo and behold, they're having this HUGE sale....so I was glancing through things and found a console table that I've been eyeing, at 50% off, and then 50% off of that! I called our local store and they happen to have one left in stock. So, I ran over there and found even more goodies: another chopstick & rice bowl set, a candle holder that totally goes with the mirror I got a while back, a couple of extra pasta bowls in case any of the ones we have break, etc. It was quite the exciting time, and we now have a Console table for our Entry Way. The picture of it is above- it totally goes with the global bazaar theme we'll have going on.

Jordan is currently at Sleepwell Mattresses checking out the prices there- we still need one more mattress & box spring for the guest room, or our room depending. We are scheduled to do our walkthrough on Monday- which is SUPER exciting! I have a bit of mentoring tonight and then will be packing the remainder of the evening.

Call if you wanna say hey!

Third Time's a Charm

I'm trying again....I figure I might be able to keep this thing updated once and for all. And I know our "far-away" friends and family will appreciate it. Maybe it will just become a part of my morning routine. I know Jordan and I can be bad with keeping up with people, so as an addition, not substitute, I will give this a try again and see if it works!

We have been busy lately- we're at a countdown on our closing....10 days! Wow! Our apartment is a wreck right now, boxes and pictures and clothes everywhere- stacked and scattered. We spent any free time we had this weekend boxing up and putting away. We have made a really great dent on it.

I really didn't want to spend much time today, so I'll post more tomorrow. Jordan and I are going out with some friends for dinner tonight to celebrate a birthday- should be a lot of fun. I will need to bundle up as it's going to be cold!! It's going to be 45 degrees tonight. (You Florida folks better enjoy your weather ) :-)