Landlords-A-Waiting

Our place is now up for rent. Do you know anyone interested? Please send them our way!

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We're In . . .

. . . but not exactly all the way.

Here are some pictures. There are still boxes everywhere, but the clutter is getting less and less and the boxes are slowly emptying. We moved in a week ago. We like our house. It has lots of room. Mary helped us put the kitchen together. My mom helped us put the living room together. Molly has helped move many things around. We have also lost her a few times, though I am finding her most likely hiding places are her closet and the master bathroom (emptying drawers).

Fini!

Done. Closed. Moving soon.

What is going on besides our house?

Molly spent a Saturday with Grandma and Grandpa Binggeli, Dad, and Jarrell in Utah County . . . on the day of the BYU v. Utah blowout game. She needs a new Utah t-shirt, but has grown out of all the others she has had in her short lifetime. So, we had to go with the 4th of July shirt. At least it was red, right? James said she had fun playing on the white board with Alicia.

We also made it to the State Fair last week. Molly practiced all of her animal sounds as we visited the sheep, pigs, goats, and cows. We also visited the FFA kids farm where little kids get to see all of the aspects of agriculture from feeding a fake cow to selling your produce at a market.

My favorite part of the fair was when we were stopped, watching the pigs cross the walkway from the pig building to the showing-the-pigs building. A high school aged boy who had just walked across with his pig, ran back towards the pig building and exclaimed, "Ashley, hurray, I need the towel . . . the pig's got diahrea." Classic fair fare.

Besides rugby and pig viewing, Molly has also been enjoying her fair share of football games. She really likes footbal for the 1st, 2nd, and part of the 3rd quarter. At some point during the 3rd, she starts to melt and then she either A) falls asleep (only once) or B) begins a wrestling match with me until the game finally ends and she falls asleep in the car before we get out of the parking lot. The Wolverines are struggling. Molly looks cute in James' hat, though. She has discovered hats at home, too, and puts them on often.

House Update - Even Closer!

Countertops are in. Bathroom surrounds are in. All electrical is finished (as far as we can tell), including the garage door openers on the new garage doors. The top of the porch has been pored. The brick has started, but has a ways to go.

What's left? . . . . final plumbing, carpet, touch up, wood on top of railing, back porch stairs, garage stairs and railing, porch steps, finish the brick, smooth out the backyard, poor the driveway . . . I think that is about it.

The builder hopes to be finished with it by next Friday, September 30th. My guess is that we will close sometime the next week and then move the second weekend of October. Before we move in, I want to paint some accent color in Molly's room. I know if I don't do it before we move in all the way, it will never get done. We have also ordered all our blinds and would like to get them hung before we actually move in.

After that . . . touch up paint and carpet cleaning in our townhouse, then we need to get it listed and rented, hopefully by November. (If anyone in the blog world knows of someone looking for a rental, please let me know.)

Here are some new pictures. One is the house with stucco before brick. The second is the house exterior with some brick finished.