Quick Update

I am taking a little break from packing boxes to give a quick update. Things are mving right along with the new house. John went down and got all the utilities switched and our new fridge should be arriving on Dec. 2nd. Since all the appliances in the new house are black and all the appliances in our current house are white, we decided to leave our old white fridge (which is still in great condition) in our current house when we sell it and by a new black fridge. While my parents were down visiting, John and I ran over to Sears to check out what they had on Friday evening. I went in looking for a black side-by-side and was set on NOT getting the glossy finish (can't imagine trying to keep handprints off of that!). In fact I had a specific one in mind that they showed the previous weekend on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition...a Kenmore Elite with not only crushed and cubed ice, but also shaved! Cool, huh! Only thing is, its not available yet (even though what I could find online said available in November 2008)...and John wasn't crazy over it's price. Well, John liked the french door ones with the freezer in the bottom. So we came out with a French door bottom freezer in black....glossy black...that is actually MORE expensive than the Kenmore I went in looking for *laugh* *cringe* Ah well at least I got a new fridge. :)

We now have an offical closing time and date: Friday, November 21st at noon! We asked for an earlier time or even one after 12:30...or better yet 3:30 or later. They said that noon was the only available time on that date and someone was even staying over their lunch break to do it. Since it is a foreclosure, I guess we are kind of forced to do it whenever the bank wants it done...and of course they don't want to wait to close until the following week. So this probably means Drew will be missing school for the day. But, that might actually give us a chance to run down and check out the preschool in our new town and drop a load of stuff off at the new house afterwards. Have to wait and see how long the closing actually takes. Since the place we are closing isn't too far from Drew's school we might be able to still take him a little late.

We are currently just pretty focused on house stuff! Trying to get things picked out and order that we need to have done to move in (which won't probably completely happen until sometime in Mid-December...we will take loads of boxes down between now and then when we can). We are hoping it might warm up a little bit so we can get the decks at both houses and the fence out our old house sealed before winter completely sets in for us...they are actually calling for a high of 66 tomorrow only our pressure washer won't be here in time and we don't have the sealer color picked out. lol Maybe we will actually get the 50 degree weather Sunday-Tuesday next week that they are currently calling for and get it squeezed in then. :)

Ok, since I have only succeeded on packing what we don't use day-to-day out of our kitchen, I think I better get back to packing! It really isn't completely my fault that is all the farther I am :) I ran out of boxes! I had picked up 12 from U-Haul last Saturday to get us started. Today I was just able to get 4 apple boxes and 4 cantalop boxes from the grocery store(gotta love the free ones!). So now I need to go get busy filling those.