House Update!

Well, soon the days of hotel living will be behind us! We move into our new place on Wednesday provided the lawyers can get it all done...you would think 1 whole month to complete paperwork would be enough, but in these last few days, I think they are sweating a bit.

We finished signing some more papers today, just more legal mumbo-jumbo. We found out that total legal costs and title transfer taxes and everything else is going to cost us an extra $19,000....gulp!!!!!

The Gov of BC takes $5000 alone just for us buying the land/house!!!! I personally think it is pretty ridiculous...the lawyer is another big huge rip off....gets a whole lot of money for not a whole lot of work...

Anyways, that is my little vent! I am very thankful that we found something so perfect for our family. We laughed yesterday as we talked about how we always come back to the first decision we make in different areas of our life.

For example, when we bought our first car, we (read "I") wanted a Grand Am. We looked around at a few, but were not totally sure that was what we should buy, so over the next few weeks, we looked around at other cars too. Guess what we bought? Yep. A Grand Am. I loved that car....If I did not have 3 kids and dogs and cats, I would still have it...:)

Then when we decided to buy another vehicle that would be bigger for us, we (this time it was really both of us!) wanted a Yukon or a Tahoe. We looked around and thought we should look into other vehicles as well....we looked at Blazer, Santa Fe and others, and bought....you guessed it, our Yukon! I love that thing more than the Grand Am...I think it is my favorite thing actually....which makes me worried God might take it away from me :(

Anyways, we are all very excited to get into the house, we will try to paint the bedrooms at least, maybe the whole upper floor. These are the colours we chose for the kids rooms:

Taryn's Room: Green ( with pink accents and white wainscotting) The picture is the source of our inspiration.

Levi and Graedy's Room: Blue (with deep red and tan accents, and white wainscotting) I am going to go darker than this pic shows, but you get the general idea!

This is the couch that we are trying to buy- We bought a brown leather storage ottoman thing- it is a large rectangle shape and opens up for storage. We are going to buy a leather chair and ottoman (smaller, square one) from the same store. We figured it would be cheaper than buying a whole set, and with my antique 1913 upright piano, we need a bit more room than a 3 piece set would allow.