We're in! Then we're off!

     We finally moved in! The floors were finally finished on Thur Dec 7, so the weekend before last (Dec 8 & 9) we packed stuff up, rented a truck, enlisted some help, and finally moved our butts into this house. We started Friday night and finished Sunday afternoon. Moving 5 miles across town is waaayyyy easier than moving 2500 miles across the ocean.

     One of Suthee's coworkers helped us to move the big stuff with the u-Haul on Saturday and one of his friends helped us move the last few medium sized things in his truck on Sunday. They both asked "where's the rest of your furniture?" To which we replied, "this is it, dude." We had enough furniture to make our 500 sq ft apartment in Honolulu look cramped, but this 2100 sq ft house looks pretty sparse right now. The only things upstairs are the extra bed and a bunch of unpacked boxes. We've been warned not to worry about this, as the accumulation of stuff will happen without any intention on our part and before we know it the house will be full.

     Speaking of unpacked boxes, that seems to be the theme of our decor right now. The kitchen is completely unpacked (because we like to cook) and the bedroom is mostly unpacked (because we have to sleep and get dressed), but everything else is still mostly packed. This isn't going to change any time soon either, since we have been and will continue to be busy traveling.

     This last weekend (Dec 15 & 16) we drove to Vail for the weekend... which we will never do again. Driving seven hours each direction is not worth it to spend Saturday in the snow. We did enjoy spending time with the Epsteins (a family whose children Suthee tutored when he lived in Vail in 2002-2003) while we were there and they were eager to finally meet Hope. We also were able to stop at Ikea in Denver on our way home and pick up some furniture and other items for the house. The stop also provided dinner (and dessert) in Ikea's lovely Swedish cafe.

     This coming weekend we're off again. We leave Saturday morning to spend time with Hope's mom, sister, niece, and nephew in Atlanta for the holidays. After that we have a quick stop in Texas to see a lot of Suthee's family who have come in from Thailand to see his cousins graduate from Texas Tech university. We'll be back in Albuquerque Dec 30 and Suthee will be right back at work, but Hope has another week off from school so she doesn't have to go back until Jan 7 (so maybe a couple of boxes might get unpacked).

     Hopefully we'll be seeing a lot of you soon!

p.s. Our holiday cards finally arrived, so we'll finally be sending those out with our save-the-date cards later this week.

the realtor let us keep the sold sign

Floors! And holiday plans! And cards!

We're moving next weekend!

We've been waiting for the floors to be finished and they're nearly done.

The carpet has been installed on the stairs and in all of the rooms upstairs. It's very nice, but we haven't remembered to take a picture of it yet. We'll do that soon and post it. It's a nice medium brown, like a teddy bear.

The master bathroom has new tile and all of the carpet downstairs has been removed. Now we're just waiting for the flooring that we ordered to come in and be installed. That should hopefully happen early this week and we'll move in next weekend.

After that we'll be off to Atlanta to spend Christmas with Hope's mom and sister, then a quick stop in Texas on the way home to see Suthee's family. While we're in Georgia, Hope has an appointment to try on wedding dresses at "Lori's Bridals" which is the shop that's on Say Yes to the Dress on TLC. It's a cheesy show, and all of the dresses are waaaayyyy out of our budget, but it will be fun to go try on some fancy dresses.

We are ordering our holiday cards right now and will be sending them out soon with our save-the-dates. We may need some addresses. If your address has changed or you think we might not have it please let us know so that we can send these to you.

See you all soon!

Last time we were in Atlanta (Jan 2010)

Thanksgiving and another house update!

     Just a few updates:

     We picked carpet! We picked some non-carpet wood-type flooring! We bought a washer and dryer! Things are finally moving along. The washer and dryer will be delivered the Monday after Thanksgiving and then the floors are going to be done the weekend after that. That means we will probably move in right around the first week of December. We'll take pictures of all of these things as soon as we have them. 

     We will be in Levelland, TX for Thanksgiving so hopefully we'll see a lot of you soon.

     We're going to send out our Save-the-Dates with our holiday cards soon and we'll update the wedding website too.

This picture was taken last year at the Notre Dame v Air Force game,
right before we got engaged.

House update

We still haven't moved into the house yet. We're currently trying to decide on what flooring we want, and after that we have to actually have it installed. Do you know how many options there are for flooring? That stuff is just crazy. 

It'll probably be a few more weeks before we move in. We'll keep you all updated as it progresses, but in the meanwhile here are a few random pictures of Suthee: 

How cute is the bow tie?

Polynesian Cultural Center

random iron dinosaur sculpture
somewhere along Highway 1 in California

New House Pictures

Here are some pictures of the house. They are all screen shots that I took from the listing company's website. I'll post more of the ones we have taken later. 

-Hope :)

front of the house

entryway and stairs

top of the stairs, office on the left

left to right: entry to master suite, living room, dining room, kitchen counter

living room

more living room

kitchen

view of kitchen, stairs, and entry to master from dining room

master bath

master bath

middle of the stairs, that window looks into the office

office, with a window looking out onto the stairs

back yard, porch

back yard, view from the porch

side view

Welcome!

Welcome!

       Some of you see a lot of our updates on Facebook, but a lot of you aren't on Facebook, so we thought it would be nice to have a place where everyone could see what's going on in our lives. We have to admit we got this idea from Tom & Susan's blog No Rest for the Wiris! Since we just bought a house and we're getting married this summer we thought it would be a good time to start our own. 

       We hope you like this name (we're pretty amused by it). Beans and rice are the primary foods that we grew up with (being Mexican and Asian) and O' is a throwback to both Hope's Irish heritage and Suthee's Irish loyalties (Notre Dame).

Enjoy!

Suthee & Hope

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