Shingles Vs. Wind - Part 2

Tyler collected a few of the shingles that took flight off of our house.... Made it 5 houses down (and quite possibly more, this was all he could find in a calm break):

I have had to move Emma into Zoë's room as the major part of the 'wave' banging from the shingles is right over Emma's bedroom. Sweet huh??! You can hear the 'wave' (as I like to call it) throughout the whole house... And our neighbors can hear it in their house as well (lucky us for the next few days).....


I predict a few days of no sleep (as the girls aren't used to sharing a room)... And a lot of trouble on Monday dealing with the Builder.


The funny thing? A few days ago in the mail we received our survey on how our experience has been with our builder. We have to rate them... And it's a huge deal! *LOL*


Yup.


OH! AND it snowed. Yippee!

UPDATE 6:30pm: So I went for a quick stroll around our neighborhood... Found two more sheets of our shingles. Lovely color, just wish they would stay stuck to our dang home!

Grrr....

Who feels like the loser of the hood??!! I do, I DO!

More House!

Yesterday myself, Sarah and my girls drove out to Leduc for Kindergarten Orientation....before we went to our 6:30pm meeting we stopped in to look at the house... And take a photo of the outside in daylight as I had forgotten to do that last time! *L*

So I took this photo and didn't fully realize that we had a walk way, stairs and railing on our veranda until after we had checked the inside of the house out! *LOL*

Imagine!

Also, they put the door in between the master room and bathroom! HA! Unfortunatly I only had room for one photo on my phone... *sigh*

Today Tyler drove out to Leduc to met with our Banker (for the house) and took some other photos of the outside of the house for me (what a great guy he is!)...

Tyler's photos are much better quality! *L* So there's the walk way and such.

Nice photo!

We're so close to it being ready. When Sarah and I went inside yesterday they had my kitchen cabinets in place (and the upstairs bathroom vanity)... I wish I had more photos! Ugh.... And all of our lighting were in their boxes in the living room... Along with my range hood! Yay!

Anyhoo... I'll write more later... Must get food in the girls and pick up their new table and chair set! Yay!

Exciting!

I'm VERY excited.....

I've been avoiding this site that I used to check out daily.... Oh who am I kidding, hourly! *L* It's called 'Used Edmonton'.... A place where you can list stuff you no longer want and other do!

I used the site a lot after I found it not too long before Christmas... It amazes me what people are selling... Great condition, smoke-free homes, for cheap! How can you go wrong? My girls ended up with so much more this past Christmas with a great thanks to that site....

Anyways, as I said, I was avoiding the site since I kept finding things that I was falling in love with for our new home... And it was causing Tyler stress to think about 1) The money for the items that, yes, were good for our new place... 2) Where we would store all the stuff I was finding and such.... So I stopped going on it....

Until a few days ago.... Where I came across the most amazing bedroom suite for Emma! Honestly, it's great.... And at a silly price! I sent it to my Mom since she is someone I like to share my 'findings' with.... She liked it... A lot!

Things started rolling... I showed it to Tyler when he got home from his night shift and he agreed that he liked it but was concerned about where we would come up with the money.... Thankfully my super-awesome Mommy had mentioned to me beforehand that I could borrow the money and pay her back when I could (which for me would be during this summer off of the Weddings I do)... So I set it up! My Mommy kindly made the arrangements with the woman selling the beautiful bedroom set (I wrote the woman as well in my own inquiry but she never got back to me! *L* Hard to pass up a cash offer -by my Mom!- a day later)... Andy, Tyler and Conor (thank you, thank you, thank you!) will be meeting at the woman's home later today to pick up the items....

I'm excited not only because it's all worked out (so far) but because of the deal... It's crazy! I've found many beds (only the bed) that were great for the idea that I have for my girls' rooms... But they cost just as much as this set!

Are you ready for this??

"Chocolate brown bedroom suite for girls"

Included in sale:

Headboard, dresser, mirror, and one night stand.

It's only 6 months old from The Brick (amazing!!!!)....

Why is she getting rid of it? She bought it for her daughter and now they have another (adopted?) and need something that will accommodate both children....

I looked it up on The Brick's site and found it! Ha! Here it is!

4 Piece Carlsbad Full/Queen Panel Bedroom Set

50400PK4

Web Price*
$699.97

Includes: Carlsbad Full/Queen Panel Headboard, Carlsbad 2-Drawer Night Table, Carlsbad 6-Drawer Dresser, Carlsbad Panel Mirror

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that it's not a twin.... It's a double that can turn into a queen! GAH! My four year old will be sleeping on a double! *L*

What are we paying for it?

Well it's $75 cheaper then she was asking for (thank you Mommy!)...

Ready?

Grand Total: $400!

Yuppers!

Insane right??!! *L*

Yes, I'm excited!

:D

Dear Mommy...

Dear Mommy....

And Andy... And Grandma and Grandpa......

*AHEM*

So... since everyone is recovering from their strain of cold and dinner won't be happening this weekend....

Please check out this blog "IT'S HERE!!!! IT'S HERE!!!!"

:)

Loves!

Getting Cloooooooooooser!

Taken December 10th, 2007

Today Tyler, Myself and our girls went and looked at our house.... With permission!!!

You see, for those of you just joining in this topic, we're not supposed to enter the house without permission from our builder for safety reason... And when we do the final walk-thru a week before we have possession we're supposed to wear a hard hat and not have anyone under 18 with us.... (We'll see how that goes!)

BUT we've been sneaking peeks the whole way through... We'd go late at night and check it out.... Today though was special, the girls actually got to come inside (usually they'd be asleep in the locked warm van)!

When we arrived the makers of our cabinets were there dropping them off! *GEE!* They look GGGGGGRRRRRREAT! Once they were done we carried the girls into the house (didn't want them to walk in the mud before entering the house) and showed them around... Daddy was a bit stressed as he didn't want them to get hurt or break anything (not that he'll admit to the stressed part... *L*) but for the most part our girls did well.... We showed them the living room, kitchen, back hall all while taking measurements and measuring out what will fit where... And then we went upstairs!

Cabinets in our living room! *L* Taken March 4, 2008

First we showed them our bedroom (the quite liked the walk-in closet) and then Tyler asked them if they knew where their rooms were... Well they took off down the hall and went right into THEIR OWN ROOMS! Now this isn't in bold because they're finally going to officially have their own rooms (Emma has been sleeping in the spare room) but because they ran right into the correct rooms! *LOL* It was awesome!

Doors to our girls room... Emma to the left, Zoë to the right!

After much running around in their soon-to-be rooms we headed to the basement where Emma freaked out on the stairs (she was preoccupied by the fact that she needed to pee and wasn't focusing on what was happening and then realized the was on stairs to the basement! *L* Poor kid) while Zoë took to them like a pro! Then they saw the under the stairs play space.... Oh yes! *L*

The stairs to the basement...

The play space that I think would look awesome as a castle entrance!

Anyhoo, all in all it turned out to be a great trip and hopefully we'll get to Ikea tomorrow to look at some furniture and such...

Yay!

Side Note:

Our deck now has metal railings as well as our side steps too! And I believe the front of our house is finished... Could be wrong, was so excited about the inside I didn't take much time to look at the outside! *L*

IT'S HERE!!!! IT'S HERE!!!!

Our possession date!!!

I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited!!!

It came in the form of a letter (who knew??!) in the mail today.....

And I just KNEW it was the date....

I didn't open the envelope until I phoned Tyler at work on his lunch break (believe me, this nearly killed me! *LOL* I got the mail at 11:30pm and had to wait at least until 12pm!!! UGGGGGGH!).....

I thought I would be kind in sharing what I just knew would be our possession date... I was sure of it!

And there was NO WAY that I was going to be able to wait until he got home from work! Could you imagine??!! Yikes! *L*

Anyways.... Are you ready for it???!!

Our possession date is......

*drum roll please*

APRIL 18th, 2008

YAY!

"This is to confirm that we are scheduled to give you possession of the above property on April 18th, 2008 at 2:00 P.M."