We walked through verification today on our house. Minor issues will go on our "punch list" to be fixed by the builder over the next few months. Tomorrow, we go to closing and before lunchtime, the house should be all ours!

Once we get keys, a whirlwind of activities will occur culminating in our move into the house. Movers come on Monday, 6/15, to deliver our household goods and we are taking advantage of an empty house to get the interior painted. We are getting rid of the peach colored walls, thank goodness! The painters we hired gave us some ideas for how to select colors and we went to Guiry's - an amazing paint and art supplies store - to get some further (and free) color consultation from their designers and managed to make it through the surprisingly painless process of choosing colors. I hope we did ok.

Painters begin prepping the house tomorrow afternoon and I am on the phone with all the utility companies to switch over/begin services. We meet with a landscape designer tomorrow also to get ideas for our currently bare backyard and we start moving some items from my parents' house over.

Saturday, appliances (fridge, washer, and dryer) get delivered, DIRECTV gets installed, and painters begin coloring the walls. In the middle of the day, Abby's busy social calendar tells us she has a birthday party to attend.

Sunday, the painters continue, we will clean, line shelves, hang drapes where we can, etc. to get ready before the movers come.

Monday, we direct movers traffic and begin the fairly substantial unpacking effort. Paul will get Abby's crib set up and we will spend our first night there - assuming paint fumes will no longer be an issue.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that everything will go smoothly over the next few days.