june 25th update!

well, you might remember in my last post that i stated on thursday it was our most stressful day? i spoke too soon! friday, was the most stresful day!  first we found out that the 14 day extension was not accepted because of the rise in interests rates. then we found out that our rate went up to 3.75% and there was a 40% chance we were going to have to close that day. which we were fine with. but then our appraiser wouldn't push the appraisal through because we didn't have grass or carpet. what the heck! the padding was down for the carpet and the yard was being graded for sod. who doesn't move in without carpet and grass!?!? we could not understand the reasoning behind that decision. so, then we found out that we have to close this coming friday the 28th and that was the last chance we have at the interest rate of 3.75% or it was going to shoot up to over 4.5%! ok....but the straw that broke the camel's back was that we found that our carpet is on backorder and they had no clue when it would be in. perfect, just freakin' perfect.

on friday, when i left work. kurt and i decided that we would take a chance and cancel our carpet order and go to the place where we got the carpet and try to find something in stock. the lady said they already didn't have much in stock, let alone the amount we needed. 122 ft of carpet. i didn't care of they put orange carpet in my house, i just wanted some! we walked through the warehouse and low and behold, we found some. it was like the skies opened up and the angels started singing! they had the perfect (not orange) carpet with more than enough in stock. "done! we will take it," we said! so they worked our job in and should be at the house as i'm typing this. in fact, i'm going to double check on that right now.

we were so relieved to have gotten that done. we went out to the house after work on friday and the guy was there grading. he said that he would be done on saturday afternoon. when we went to the house on sunday morning, it was finished! the grading we done and the lot looked great! the sod started going down yesterday. here is what we found when we arrived to the house after work. the rest of the sod in the backyard will be put down today.