my last post was about some of my memories of birthday pasts. well, i neglected to include one of great importance. hubby was kind enough to leave me a comment. it had not been forgotten at all...i think it had more to do with remembering it along the lines of a different milestone in my/our life.
when i turned 24 we also moved into our very first home. let me tell you how we bought this house we love to call "this old home." it was november of 98. we'd been married for a month and were quite content in our studio apartment. it was cheap, roomy, and very cool!!
a house on the best street in town came up for auction and they were having an open house. we wandered down to take a look. liked it...but hey, we had no money to put down so walked away. a few weeks later a lady called hubby at work. she had been buying up old houses in town, fixing them up, then selling them. hubby did a lot of the architecture work for her. so anyways...she calls him one day and asks if we want to rent a house off of her. he smirks and asks which one she bought now. she replied the red one at auction. hubby chuckles and offers to buy it off of her. she says okay...hubby leaves a message at our home that we just bought a house. when i got home i nearly choked but called the office. the secretary answers and her words are "congratulations!" um...what????? and yes, folks, we bought the house from them and couldn't have gotten any better deal!!
what followed next was the BIG BLIZZARD of 99. it was the new years blizzard. so for the next 2 weeks we traipsed through tons of snow to strip layer after of layer of wallpaper and paint, paint, paint!!! and finally on january 17 we were moving in!! it was a cold day but we had lots of help. what little we had looked even smaller when we moved it into the big house (not really that big, but we had a studio and only 2 months of marriage).
i had gone out to get pizza for lunch and when i returned there was a dozen red roses on the table with dinner reservations for 2 at a great restaurant! what a deal!!! even in the midst of moving hubby was doing birthday plans! after dinner we were on our way back to utter chaos! he was joking and said we should stop at this bread and breakfast place he had just been working on. i chuckled...he even said he thought he still remembered the security code. they had hottubs and after moving all day that sounded great!! of course i am still laughing and thinking he is totally joking. but oh no...he pulls down the lane. now i'm thinking i'm going to spend my birthday in a cop car for breaking and entering. he punches in the code and drags me through the door. he then sneaks through the hall way and says, "this is the room we put the hot tub in!" now i'm totally freaking out...he tries the door and it is unlocked!!!! no way!! i'm still a little befuddled, but when the phone rings i get a little nervous until i hear hubby say, "yes, sir, we got in just fine. breakfast at 8:00? sounds great!"
isn't he a great guy?!!!?!??!??? he didn't want me to sleep on the floor in a room filled with unpacked boxes!! i love my man!!!
when i turned 24 we also moved into our very first home. let me tell you how we bought this house we love to call "this old home." it was november of 98. we'd been married for a month and were quite content in our studio apartment. it was cheap, roomy, and very cool!!
a house on the best street in town came up for auction and they were having an open house. we wandered down to take a look. liked it...but hey, we had no money to put down so walked away. a few weeks later a lady called hubby at work. she had been buying up old houses in town, fixing them up, then selling them. hubby did a lot of the architecture work for her. so anyways...she calls him one day and asks if we want to rent a house off of her. he smirks and asks which one she bought now. she replied the red one at auction. hubby chuckles and offers to buy it off of her. she says okay...hubby leaves a message at our home that we just bought a house. when i got home i nearly choked but called the office. the secretary answers and her words are "congratulations!" um...what????? and yes, folks, we bought the house from them and couldn't have gotten any better deal!!
what followed next was the BIG BLIZZARD of 99. it was the new years blizzard. so for the next 2 weeks we traipsed through tons of snow to strip layer after of layer of wallpaper and paint, paint, paint!!! and finally on january 17 we were moving in!! it was a cold day but we had lots of help. what little we had looked even smaller when we moved it into the big house (not really that big, but we had a studio and only 2 months of marriage).
i had gone out to get pizza for lunch and when i returned there was a dozen red roses on the table with dinner reservations for 2 at a great restaurant! what a deal!!! even in the midst of moving hubby was doing birthday plans! after dinner we were on our way back to utter chaos! he was joking and said we should stop at this bread and breakfast place he had just been working on. i chuckled...he even said he thought he still remembered the security code. they had hottubs and after moving all day that sounded great!! of course i am still laughing and thinking he is totally joking. but oh no...he pulls down the lane. now i'm thinking i'm going to spend my birthday in a cop car for breaking and entering. he punches in the code and drags me through the door. he then sneaks through the hall way and says, "this is the room we put the hot tub in!" now i'm totally freaking out...he tries the door and it is unlocked!!!! no way!! i'm still a little befuddled, but when the phone rings i get a little nervous until i hear hubby say, "yes, sir, we got in just fine. breakfast at 8:00? sounds great!"
isn't he a great guy?!!!?!??!??? he didn't want me to sleep on the floor in a room filled with unpacked boxes!! i love my man!!!
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