Officially Official

A Ha!  Done!  Finis!
We closed on the new construction home loan today, after an hour of signing and initialing over mind, body and soul to the bank.  :)   Well, at least that's what it feels like.  I half think they hire a private investigator to find out everything about you before agreeing to lend that much money out.

But nevertheless, we are done with the paperwork and down payment on the new house, and Kai will work on gathering up the Deed and permits this week so he may hopefully break ground shortly thereafter.  The ground is fairly saturated from all of the melting snow and ice, plus a tremendous thunderstorm last night.  Hopefully that will clear up soon.

Brian twisted my arm and we celebrated with a slice of cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory.  Yum.  I managed to save some to share with the kids too. 

And in other officially official news, we also finished registering Jacob for the Before & After Care program at his future school district.  Registering for actual Kindergarten will come in another month or so.  I feel so relieved to have at least this part of the process done, and to know that because we were able to get him in to these programs, he will be able to stay at his school the entire time and not have to get bused to another place until we can pick him up.  I think although Brian has been trying to hype up riding the bus to school to him, Jacob was still showing some anxiety about it; plus, keeping him in the same building will be much more similar to what he does now. 

We are (slowly) making progress on getting our current house ready for the market.  I'm excited - things should start to get pretty busy for us now!