more delightful surprises!

I know I had promised to have the pictures and info on how we refinished our floors, but we're still working away at them, so I think I'll wait till we're completely finished. We just stained them yesterday, then we're going to put the first coat of finish on today (hopefully) then we'll probably have to wait till Saturday to lightly sand so we can do another coat of finish. So it will be awhile.

In the meantime, we've been packing a lot (we have to be out of our apartment by this Friday! EEK!) so I'm pretty exhausted and don't have a lot to report here. If you're wondering where we're going to put our stuff while we finish the floors, well, we are too. haha, no, just kidding. The hardwood is only in the front part of the house, so it's not including the kitchen, a pretty big room and utility room (with a shower, thank goodness) so it's kind of like it's own little apartment, which we're used to, so we'll just be really tight for awhile. All of our stuff fits into this one room, that's how small our apartment was!

But anyways.... the delightful surprise was that the previous owner left us the washer and dryer! This is great because we don't own one and weren't sure when we could get one, so that's a blessing! This whole house is a blessing! Josh and I are so thankful that God would allow us to have such nice things so early in our marriage, and we've managed to acquire them all without credit cards! Amazing! So I guess some advice to others is, if possible don't get credit cards, because there are other ways to build your good credit, and the government right now is trying to stimulate the economy so we managed to get a full financed home loan at a fixed rate, plus we get that $8,000 to use however we want because we're first time home buyers (it's only til like nov. 1st or something though!) so don't think you can't get a house because you don't have 20% saved up yet, check into it. But be wise, and make sure you're ready and can afford the payments!

- The Maxwell's -