Friday, November 7, 2008

I am back online ... in our new house

I am back online!! It has been almost a month since my last post and boy oh boy..what a month it has been.

Here's a quick recap.. after the paperwork was done, we waited for the funding to be released and it turned out that we had to sign more papers and some more required documentation. Then we did a house walkthrough on Oct 21, closed escrow and got the keys to the new house on Oct 23. We moved to the new house on Oct 25 and that whole week was very hectic. We had to keep going back to the house that we rented to clean it up, get rid of old stuff that we didn't want to bring to the new house, repaint the kids bedroom. This is on top of the activities that went on in the new house like alarm installations, furniture delivery, unpacking of boxes, appliance delivery and installations, landscaping, and so on. I actually got sick because of exhaustion during the move.

But you know what...it's all worth it!! We just love our new house!! Abby doesn't want to leave the house. Everytime we go out, she would insist on going back home. Cheryl is warming up to it, especially when the new furniture were delivered. At first she kept telling us that it doesn't feel like home because the place was empty. Weiwei is also warming up to the idea of being a homeowner. She just loves the kitchen, master bath and of course the walk-in closet.

As for me, I had all the reasons to finally purchase a whole set of power tools!!! And the best thing is, we have the place to keep them..the huge garage. I have so many projects already lined up to improve the house like crown moulding and window trim installations, entertainment center, fireplace mantel, blind installations, bedroom paint jobs, and to top it off...Christmas decorations!!!

I will post some before and after pictures of the different rooms in our new house. Hopefully the after pictures will be much better...well at least that's the goal...

To my friends, you are all welcome to drop by and visit us. We don't have any parking and space issues anymore!!!

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Dear Norman and Weiwei,

Welcome to the home owners club - tons of joy and work :-)

Congrats again!!

Wendy

TheMovieSnob said...

Congratulations! I hope that you are recovering from the hard work of moving! It is no small thing. I can't wait to see the pictures. We were wondering what had happened to you!
Happy Homecoming from the Ellisons!

Anonymous said...

To all Dear ones

We feel REJOICE for you and can image the team work and LOVE to put in to decorate the house.

We are looking forward to visit your new's house soon.

Till done please take care with metta and blessing from over
beloved parents from our Heaven!!


Yeow , Serene , hugo and Venus

Anonymous said...

hey...surprise...surprise...
great to hear that you have moved to a new place...

can't wait to see the photos of the new place and with the x'mas tree...great....

have to make more $$$ to visit you all.....

Anonymous said...

Hey dear...
i am like Stef ...would really love to visit you guys soon...

my hubby challenged me to run my half marathon tiz sun under 2hrs and he would buy me a ticket to US..sadly to say...i doubt i can make it under 2hrs..hehe

love,
lawrence & serene
Job & Joy