A house update

We officially closed on our new house last Thursday afternoon.  Now the real fun begins.
Thankfully we knew we would be doing a deep clean of the entire house, repairing the few items listed on the home inspection, getting the carpets cleaned and touching up the paint before moving in. We set our move in date as August 1st and figured we'd keep the apartment until the end of the month and hopefully get out of our lease here with little to no hassle.
We've little by little started moving stuff into the new house over the past week and Monday night my dear friends Mimi and MaryAnn helped me clean the entire house.  We purchased our washer and dryer with the help of my Mom and Step-dad (the washer was a wedding present) and those will be delivered next weekend.  We also got a patio set from my Dad and Step-mom as a wedding gift.

Today, we received word from our property manager at the loft that he's begun showing our loft and he's got a potential renter who would like to move in sooner rather than later.  So we're trying to bump up our last day downtown to August 8th.  So much going on in such a short amount of time and as my luck would have it, D will be out of town the next two weekends for his bachelor party and the annual Ribfest in Chicago.  Leaving me on my own to continue to pack and slowly move totes and boxes to the new house.

We're hosting our Rehearsal Dinner at our new house on August 14th so I'm hoping the move and all of the fun that comes with it isn't too crazy.

On the wedding front, with only a month to go, I've got most of the planning complete and we just have to finalize the guest count (RSVPs are due Saturday), get our marriage license and finish putting together the schedule of events.  We bought our wedding rings finally and started paying off the balances for our vendors.  We've spent more money in the last two weeks than I think I've spent in my entire 32 years alive but we're heading in the right direction.

Hopefully I'll find a second to breathe throughout all of this!