New House Pics!

Hey!! Happy 4th of July to all of my US readers! To all of the non-US readers happy 4th of July anyway! I think I would be a bigger fan of the 4th of July if fireworks weren't involved. All of our redneck neighbors have been shooting off firecrackers every night for about the last two weeks. Since we're in the suburbs fireworks are allowed. I can't wait to move to the city!!! Our subdivision looks like a war zone every morning when Pippin and I walk. There is crap EVERYWHERE! It's such a waste of money. There's a fireworks stand on every corner here, and tonight one a few blocks from our house has a big spotlight going!

So, everything with our house sale and purchase is still going great. Last Friday we had our home inspector inspect the house we're buying. Everything went really well and we had no major surprises. The inspector has a few minor things, but he said the foundation and all the important things looked awesome. All of the rafters and floor supports are oak! He said they haven't moved at all over the last 95 years and the house is probably stronger than any new home built today. Sweet. I've uploaded the pics we took Friday to my Flickr account here. There's 30-something pics in the set, so it was just easier to link to there. I've put notes on what each room is and all the changes we are going to make. We are so excited and just ready to MOVE! And start working!! We changed just about everything on this house, and it's been finished for a couple of years now and we're just itching to get going on the new house. Today I've talked to mover, mortgage agents, insurance agents, our agents!! Everything is in high gear now. Moving date is July 14th, 10 days from tomorrow!!! I can't wait!

Saturday we went to my parent's 2nd annual July "4th" BBQ. My brother and his family were there, along with Brent's entire family, and some other cousins, aunts and uncles. It's very strange to see them all getting older. Our "little" flower girl, ring bearer, and jr groomsmen were there and they are not junior at all anymore!!! The ring bearer is now 14 and much larger than I am, my flower girl is now 12 and enormous! We've been married 7.5 years now, so these things happen, but it's still strange to see! I'll try to post some pics from the BBQ later this week.

Sunday we mostly packed and took care of some home errands, but we did do our long run of 12 miles. OMG, what a MISERABLE run! Brent took some great pics with his camera phone so I'll try to get them up soon as well. Here's the Cliff Notes version: very hard, super hot, we've really got to quit doing this stuff when it's so warm! It was NINETY-FOUR degrees when we finished!!! Something is seriously wrong with that!!!

Anyway, we worked today and I am sleepy so it's time for bed so we can get up for an early 6-miler and do more packing! Brent's parent's drove up tonight to take some old furniture of theirs we've been using for the last 7 years and to take my broken elliptical. I was going to sell it at the yard sale we're having this weekend, but I'm more than happy to trade it out to a family member. It just wasn't worth paying to have fixed and it took up too much space. I'd rather use the treadmill and do other exercises on my cross training days anyway.

Anyway, have a great 4th you guys! I picked up some steaks today for us to grill out tomorrow. I wonder if these will be our last steaks at this house???? Crazy!!!!

Rae