And so it begins

A marathon week of cleaning, painting, cleaning, packing, moving, unpacking, cleaning, organizing, etc. I talked today with the people we bought the house from and they will be out by tomorrow evening, perfect timing! After work tomorrow is the start of a week of vacation that I am taking. We are not actually moving our stuff until Tuesday, so that will give me 3 days to get it ready and maybe paint a little. I like the paint colors that are in the house now, they did a good job with those, but I do want to paint the bedroom and possibly the kitchen. Our utilities are all getting switched over on Monday and our new washer and dryer will be delivered on Tuesday. If all goes according to plan, we should be staying the first night in our new house on Tuesday.

Wedding Bells Part II

Surprise! Michael and I are engaged! After talking about it, looking at rings, etc. it has finally happened. He told me on Monday that he was going to make a special dinner on Tuesday and wouldn't give me any details. I bugged him and bugged him and he still wouldn't tell me anything, but I had a pretty good idea of what he was up to. I can count on one hand the number of times he's made a special dinner in the past two years. The only thing he would tell me is that I couldn't come home until 630 because that is when dinner would be done. Normally I have soccer on Tuesday which goes until 630 but it freezing cold and there was freezing rain on and off throughout the day so we cancelled practice. I think he went into a quick panic when I told him. I stayed a little late at work and then went to our new house to pick up my mail that they have been holding for me and got home about 620. Here is what was waiting for me:
Oh yes, that is all sushi, he knows the way to my heart. He went to one of my favorite places and got 140 pieces of sushi so that he could spell this out. I will admit that it took me a minute to figure out, looking at it from above it is pretty obvious, but from the side (it is a tall table) it was a little more difficult. I think I was stunned by all the sushi. I of course said yes, and then ate a lot of sushi! I was so full I couldn't eat the cheesecake for dessert. Oh, and the most important part, the ring. I don't have it yet, it is getting sized and should be done in about a week, hopefully sooner! I am so happy and so excited to start this new part of our life together, once we get moved into the new house the wedding planning begins!

Wedding Bells

This past weekend we got up early and drove to Portland for a wedding- Michaels sister was getting married. We met most of Michaels family at the Pittock Mansion for pictures before the wedding, the Mansion is way up on this hill so it had amazing views of Portland. I think we saw two or three other wedding parties getting their pictures at the same time, so it's a pretty popular spot. After the pictures we were going to go to Hooters because I haven't had it for over a year, so we went to the Hooters in Beaverton and it was CLOSED. I was SO bummed. We didn't have time to drive to the other one in town so we grabbed some fast food (barf) and went to the hotel to shower and get ready. The wedding was really pretty and I loved the colors. The ceremony was short and sweet and the reception was beautiful, lots of candlelight. And they did bbq for dinner- the ribs almost made up for not having Hooters. :) I got to meet a lot of Michaels family that I hadn't met before and he got to see some people that he hasn't seen for a long time. Overall it was a really fun night, we left about 9pm and drove back home. Our puppies had been pretty much alone all day so they were really happy when we finally got home. Thanks to Kayte, Chad, the kids and Michaels friend Trevor for stopping by and checking on them!! And congrats to Michele and Jeremy, the new happy couple!

It's beginning to look a lot like...

October?! Yesterday it snowed through half of our soccer game, yuck! I figured it was just a fluke since the sun came out and it warmed up quite a bit a little after it was done snowing. Wow was I wrong. This is what we woke up to this morning:
The leaves on the trees haven't even started falling off- they've barely started to turn colors!! I really hope this isn't a sign of how this winter is going to be. Maybe this will be the only time it snows for the rest of the year, I'd be ok with that.

Finally!

We have a moving date, sort of. The people that we bought our house from finally heard back from the bank on the house that they are now buying (they are buying a short sale, which can take forever). They got the home inspection and appraisal done yesterday, so really all thats left is to get their financing squared away and they say that their loan should be done by next week. Since we agreed to let them rent back for 60 days they will be out right around the 25th-26th of this month, and then we can move in! I am still waiting for my $8000 credit, hopefully we'll get that before the end of the month so that we can redo the floors before we move in. Only a few more weeks before I can use the awesome new steam washer and steam dryer that we bought, we bought them almost a month ago but are waiting until we have moved to have them delivered and set up at the new house.