House Pictures

The kitchen and island

My little backyard

 The great room

2nd Bedroom

3rd Bedroom

Guest Bathroom Upstairs

Laundry Room

Master Bathroom

My Closet

Master Bedroom

 Garage (or Mike's room)

And the front :)

Change is good!

Though I've had some pretty exciting things happen since I last wrote, I just haven't taken the time to sit down and make a post.  


First, with the leaving of my boss and the night supervisor, I am keeping my same title but got a 2/hr raise and a cell phone allowance!  Holy cow...I feel like I'm movin' on up (singing this)  May 9th is the official date that this new company takes over.  I am really excited for Monday to happen and am really excited about the changes that are going to happen and the potential for me as well.  I really think this is going to be an awesome change and I can't wait to get it started!


Second, the hubster and I were signing some house papers on Sunday and we found out that our house is going to be done on June 24th!  And what I mean by being done on June 24th is that we can get our keys on June 24th!  That is a month earlier than we were expecting!  Since we are getting into our house sooner we were able to lock in a rate this week of 4.375!  


A raise, an earlier move-in date, and a fabulous mortgage loan rate!  Life couldn't really be much better right now!  And to top it off I'm having a Photographer Mother's Day Weekend with my mom and I will be taking pictures all weekend.  It should be a lot of fun and I should have some good pictures to post!


I have some pictures I took of the house, I will post in a separately. 

Goodbyes

Today we went to Who Song and Larry's after work for some dinner and drinks as a farewell to Jamie and Avie.  There is not one ounce of me that wanted either one of them to leave but at the same time it hasn't hit me yet that when I go to work on Monday, they won't be there.  I don't even feel sad yet because it hasn't hit me and I refused to give Avie a hug goodbye.  That meant it was a little too real.  I've become especially close with Avie over the last few months and am really going to miss seeing her and talking to her everyday although, I have a feeling we both still might need each other for some venting time. :)  


When I first started at this office I really didn't think I would be there long but I'm glad I've stuck it out.  I've met some really great people and I really think this job could have some potential in the future.  I'm sad for losing Jamie and Avie but I do believe everything happens for a reason.


I think this saying is fitting:
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go.  Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same."  ~Flavia Weedn,Forever

Oh New House

I just wanted to give a little picture update on our house being built.  We have about 14.5 weeks left until it's complete and I abso-freaking-lutly can not wait!

Front of the house 

Garage aka Man Cave 

Kitchen area - the stuff sticking out is where the island will be 

 Bottom floor living/kitchen

Guest bathroom - this isn't in place yet. 

My stairs 

Master bedroom 

Master closet 

Master Bath/Shower

I feel like these pictures make the house look kind of small but it is 1600 sq ft so we will have plenty of room!

Sons of Anarchy

My life has been really uneventful in the past 2-3 weeks...most the time I feel like it's pretty uneventful but could always blog about SOMETHING.  Every time I would think about sitting down to blog, I couldn't think of anything to write about.  I don't feel like I have anything too exciting at the moment but it's been too long.

The husband and I got hooked on the TV show Sons of Anarchy.  It's pretty hard core for being on FX and it's super addicting.  In case you haven't watched the show or heard of it, it is about a biker club and the trials and tribulations they go through.  They run guns, so as you might imagine there is illegal stuff happening all the time and every episode ends with someone getting shot.  Sounds great, huh?!  You just have to watch it.  It really is THAT good.  At the end of every episode I swear it ends by me saying "uh oh!"  And then we have to watch the next one to see what happens!  I have a bit of a crush on Jax but really love him and Tara and I secretly wish I could be the bad ass that Gemma is...ok that's not really much of a secret. :)  I wonder what it would be like to really be a part of something like that...I'm sure I couldn't hack it but you never know, I could surprise some people! :)  When I really like something (like Twilight) I get weird, obsessive thoughts and can't stop thinking about it and then I think crazy thoughts like "I want to be in a biker club and date Jax and carry a gun and have people intimidated by me!" lol  I'm pretty much insane but that's ok.  We just finished Season 2 and will be starting Season 3 asap.  Then I will have this void and will have to wait until Season 4 starts!

My new addiction...Jax and the SONs :)

I'm also pretty sure I have WAY too many tv shows that I have to watch...

The Good Stuff

Mike and I are so excited about owning our first home, we still have approximately 4 months until the houses are complete.  Unless they get them done early?!  Which would be awesome for personal reasons but not to awesome for saving reasons...

This first picture was taken on March 17th and the second picture was taken yesterday, March 26th.  A huge difference in 9 days!

We went on Friday to the design center to pick out all of our interior stuff.  It was a lot of fun but now I just can't wait to see it all in the house!   I'm so excited about our kitchen!  We picked out some granite countertops and a pretty awesome back splash.  I'm really excited to also to see the floor color and cabinet color!  

Here is a little overview of what we picked...hard to tell exactly with the lighting

        

 This is our floor color and the light wood is the cabinet design, the swatch is our cabinet color.

Our granite countertops!  Showing the cabinet color and granite together.

This is our back splash...we are doing a travertine subway tile.  You can't really tell in the picture but the light color of this tile really made the light colors in the granite stand out.  Off to the right is our paint color, it's called Macadamia with Antique white trim.  

Our house thus far..now if only the months would go by a tad bit faster.  I don't know about you but March has seemed to take forever!

Interview...

I have never been to Providence Portland, I have only ever seen it from the freeway.  I didn't realize how HUGE the place was.  Of course, I park in the parking garage NOT connected to the plaza.  Good thing I knew myself well enough to leave with plenty of time. :)  I had 30 min from the time I parked to find where I needed to go.  I got there with plenty of time to spare!

My initial reaction was that the interview went pretty well.  It was long and it was all situational questions which I do not like.  It was hard for me to come up with exact instances...I ended up probably answering more behavioral than situational.  Hopefully that didn't deter them too much.  That part took about an hour - I was expecting about 30 min.  At the end I asked what the next step in the process was and was told that you would meet with the "preceptors" and then the office manager would make her decision.  She ended up having me interview with the 3 preceptors immediately after instead of having me come back another time.  I took that as a good sign that I "passed" the first face to face and got to meet with the others...hopefully, I'm not looking too much into it and it means absolutely nothing. :)

Of couse the more I sit and think about the process I'm feeling worse about it.  Thinking, "I should have said this or I should have said that, dangit!"  The office manager wants to have a decision by the end of the week...as much as I feel like I want this, if I don't get it, I need to remember that everything happens for a reason and something better is going to come my way!