Wow!

Hey all, sorry about the lack of updating, but Allison (MoH) and I have really got the ball rolling in September. My dress is bought, veil bought. Thanks, Mama! Allison and I whipped out all of the Save the Dates, all that needs to be left is putting the labels on and sending 'em out!! We have a lot of stuff pinned down, and all for under $300!

That number includes:
Venue
Plates and napkins (the kind I actually WANTED, not a compromise!)
Some other reception misc. stuff

Some stuff to be on the look out for if you find any:
-Regular-sized mason jars or jam jars, if you know of someone that has a bunch, we'll probably pick them up closer to the wedding date. We need around 100-120.
- clear jars with stems... Sort of like punch bowls with stems and lids? Not sure what they are called but we need around 5 or 6.
-A good price on small succulents. We need about 50, so if anyone knows any place that has the succulents in the little clay pots (aprox. 5 inches including pot) and
-A really, really good price for "floating teardrop" tea light holder. I'm thinking of trying US toy or a party store. Even the dime store in Brookside.
-Oh! And some summery quilts, which we will be hanging throughout. The bigger the better. Size Queen and up.

Here are some things (including the dress, which I look better in [the model is TOO SKINNY!]) that I was looking at for inspiration.

Molly and Joe's Ark

We have a leak in the basement(a different one) and a leaky window. We're drowning! Just kidding about the drowning part. But please don't ask us how the house is going right now. We're both working hard to get it in gear and would prefer not to talk about the things that are NOT going swimmingly. (heh heh get it?? But seriously, we don't want to talk about it so please don't bring it up. We'll tell you when everything is ship-shape (heh heh---ok I'm making myself depressed.)

Photos!

Sexy induction stovetop

Ghost April

April in April

Indy and April enjoying the kitchen floor

With everything settling down, I'll post some photos. When everything is cleaned up I'll post before & after of work that we did on the house but now here are some fun photos

Hooray!

Now that we're finally in the house and I'm finished with schoolwork, we can get back to planning the wedding!! Aaah!!

Molly and Joe: 1 Water dept.: 0

Ok, sooo nobody fixed the water yet. YET. Tomorrow some city people are coming to fix it, so there's always that. I just hope that it's all done by friday. Now -THAT'S- a graduation present. Speaking of graduation, all of you Burnetts are invited to the graduation ceremony. Now, now, I can hear that discontented, obligatory sigh from here. Truth is, it'll be boring. Know what WON'T be boring? The after-party at our house at 7pm. It's also for our friends Ila Medlin and Allison Spalter as well. (Allison, my maid of honor) So it'll be a blast and everyone should come. There will be churros and cheddar biscuits. I wish I were lying. But yeaaah more house stuff. Joe finally cut the lawn. A big thanks to Pete B. for that (Yay there are two Petes now. Pete B and Pete C) Anyways, here's some graduation info:

Where the ceremony is:
Unity Temple
707 West 47th Street
Kansas City, MO, 64112
A.K.A. Where Eden Alley is.
and that is at 2pm

And the party is at our house at 7pm

Now... Back to studying for my finals.

Painting and finishing touches

Hello! Sorry it's been a minute since our last post. We've both been so so busy with school, work, and the house. All of the floors are finished, and now we're just painting and putting things back together. Unfortunately, our basement flooded (luckily nothing was down there!). We had AB May come out and take a look, however, he said that there was something (probably a root) that broke the pipe, so when it rains the water just floods back through the pipe and in to our basement! Yuck! Good news is, it's the city's problem because it's so close to the curb, so we (theoretically) don't have to pay a dime! Yay! And they'll pay for our ruined hot water heater... Probably. This weekend we've had painting parties and the whole house is really beginning to look like ours. The paint and new floors really open the rooms up and it looks so cozy and wonderful, even with debris everywhere and none of our furniture! Since I've been spending all of my time revamping the house, I've fallen behind on my schoolwork. Fortunately, Joe and I have wonderful friends who have been helping us a LOT so I can get caught up quickly. Everybody's help and time put in is invaluable to us. A BIG thank you to our painters and Pergo floor experts:
Allison Spalter
Adam Latz
Alex Dunsford
Ila Medlin
Dan Wetteroff
Nick Yeats
Thank you guys so so much and I hope this stuff will get done today!!

P.s. Little John is finishing the plumbing on Tuesday. Yaay!!

Floors!!

I never thought I would be this excited about floors. We're being super DIY for sure. All of the estimates we got on refinishing the real hardwood floors in the house were close to $2000, which is waaay too much. However, Allison and I went to home depot and if we do it ourselves, refinishing the floors AND buying that puzzle-piece nice hardwood laminate will be under $500... WHAT? Awesome! Also, Allison and I are juuust about finished tiling the kitchen floor. It looks so much better. Pictures to come.

Our newest addition

Oops.

Hey guys, sorry we haven't posted in a while, things have been crazy (as always). We paid the last of our money to the Newport Apartments (thank god), having maintenance done this week and most of it should be done by Friday. Which means I need to clean more!! Aaah!! Thanks to everyone helping out, we really really appreciate it.

Thursday we're going to go visit a little lady who may be part of our new family!

False Alarm

We have to close on moday now because Phil (Joe's Boss) didn't turn a form he needed to fill out promptly enough. Bummer! Oh well!

Calling all cleaning products!

Things we need to fix up the house off the top of my head.. If you have one or more of these that you would be willing to lend us please post a comment with your name (it can be in the comment itself) and we'll be happy to take it off your hands temporarily:
2 mops (we have a wetjet but those are only good if the floor is already clean)
Various wood cleaning/ shining products
2 buckets
bleach
street fighter 4 machine (per Joe's request)
cleaning rags (bunches)


Yeahh that's all we can think of right now. Also: We will be posting the move-in date (don't know when that will be). We don't have a lot of stuff but in the event we need some help we would really appreciate it.

Finally!!

We're closing on Friday at 10AM. However, we still need to do that work on it and clean it up. You all can see it at the end of the month when we're proud of showing it off, ok? We'll have an open house!

Aloha

The end is nigh! We're not in underwriting anymore and just packaged up all of the stuff to email to our loan officer. Aah!! We're closing at the end of this week (fingers crossed) so all we need to do now is pack up the apartment, clean the house, and get the electric (it's outdated and rickety) and some plumbing work (Done by Little John of course). Not long now!! Home depot card, here I come!

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Okay!

Today was pretty exciting. One of my (Molly) friends agreed to letterpress (yay! Letterpress!) our Save The Dates for us for FREE! Completely awesome. Letterpress is really expensive if you pay for it, so I'm utilizing the Art Institute facilities while I'm still around haha. Also, I talked to the lovely Deeana Freeberg in Fairfield (Yeah, we're having the wedding in Fairfield, there we'll get more for our money) and she agreed to do what she could with the flowers for no cost if her schedule permits, which is amazing as well. Ah! I'm excited, everything is coming along in all respects. We just got homeowners insurance today from Farm Bureau Financial for a very fair rate as well. Stoked! As far as I can tell, we close on Friday. Aah!

Lampson Woods

Ok so... Lampson Woods in Fairfield has a $25 deposit and a $50 fee. Holy crap!! And it's beautiful! There's a little field before the trail (Lampson is part of Fairfield's Loop Trail system) which can accommodate up to 200 people, which I don't think we'll breach. Did I mention the fee includes benches for 50 people? Nice. Dear Kansas City: You're getting our residence, let Fairfield have our wedding. Note: this isn't 100%

Woo hoo!

Ok so now my car broke down. I need to replace some valves or something, which will be close to $600... Which is way too much considering the amount of money already shoveled in to that thing. Soooo I'm currently sorting out my options. I'll probably have to send it off to oily, gassy H-E-double hockey sticks. Maybe get some money for parts. Aaaanyway, now about the house

We're going to get everything with the loan sorted out tomorrow and will HOPEFULLY close by next Friday (the 12th) Also: We are no longer getting the "fixer-upper" loan with money built in. We're instead getting an FHA-TYPE loan and putting 5% down, then spending the other 15% we would have put down on the "fixer upper" loan on actually fixing things. This way we don't have to pay interest. Yaay!

I think we're both really excited to get in to the house so we can focus on fun things. Like... I don't know... THE WEDDING?

We are now thinking of having the wedding in Fairfield, where I'm from. It's only about 4 hours away with inexpensive hotels as well as really inexpensive parks to rent out! Joe and I feel that being married outside is very important. Honestly, $1000 for a venue for 2 hours that won't accommodate both our ceremony and honeymoon is much to inexpensive. So we may head over there. For all the Burnetts and friends who don't know about Fairfield, check this out. Wonderful small town for sure.

Check back soon for more updates!

On the house

Ok, so what's going on now is that we have been switched to another loan officer.
Here's Why:
When we signed the buyer's contract, we faxed it over to the seller's agent for them to sign. We did this on the 18th of February. In that contract, we were all set to close on the house on March 4th. Obviously, that isn't happening. Our Realtor, Pam K, JUST got a call back from them TODAY. The were hanging on to the contract, God knows why. They assumed that we could continue with the loan process with a purely verbal agreement, which is not true. Our previous loan officer, Andy, who was with US bank can only go forward with the loan if we have a fully signed (including seller agent) contract. Once he has said contract, he will then take 30- 45 days to process the loan. This would be ok, since Joe nor I are going anywhere, however the Seller said that would take too long and we couldn't get the house if it took 30 days. So we need to go with another loan officer. We are now going with MidAmerican Mortgage who will take only 1-2 weeks to process the loan.
Here's Why:
U.S. Bank is a huge corporation who has a whole bunch of rules and time contingencies written in to their contracts. However, MidAmerican Mortgage is a small company and can therefore treat us like people, not numbers, and can expedite things.
Ok! Phew! Got to get back to work. We appreciate that you understand we are busy with the house, wedding planning, graduating college, applying for college, getting jobs, packing up our apartment, dealing with the truck, etc. Again, we will both keep you updated on this blog. So please, when we talk to you on the phone we want to hear how things are going with YOU.

First Post

Hi everyone! Molly here, setting up the blog. This will also serve as our home buying/ renovation updates, so if you have a question just post a comment. Over the next year and a half, we will be very busy and will be updating here as a way to keep you all updated at once as opposed to calling everyone individually. We love you and appreciate you wanting to help and/or know every change and update as soon as it happens. That's why we have this blog! Whenever something changes in our lives pertaining to the wedding or house, it will be posted here. So I'm going to say this bluntly: When we are on the phone with you, don't ask any questions regarding either. Thank you!