Family picture

Last year somewhere early november, when the entire family was at my grandmother's birthday, all the nephews and nieces cooked up this plan for a new family photo. But this time just one of the grandchildren and their boy- and girlfriends. We wanted to surprise our grandparents with a more recent picture. 

Things however didn't go as planned and before we even had time to arrange everything for a family photo, the sweetest granddad in the world passed away. Months went my, but the idea for a family picture remained. So, last monday 7 grandchildren and 3 boy- and girlfriends met to take a picture. It took us about three to four weeks to plan this event, before we could get everyone together. So as the date was set and getting closer we all hoped for a little bit of sunshine. However, the weather forecast was not so good. Even though it was April 23d it was cold and raining! Thank god (or maybe grandpa?) we were able to take some nice shots, and with a little bit of photoshop to get the lighting more nice I believe it will turned out to be a pretty picture.

In about 2,5 weeks it is mothers day in the Netherlands and it's a nice occasion to give grandma our present.  So we still have some time to decide the size of the picture, the kind of frame it will be put in etcetera. If it will take as long as getting everybody together for the picture we will sure need it!

Ciao!

Ixis

Purchase contract signed!

Ooh, that's a nice lamp! I love that table for our kitchen. I really like a lounge set for in the garden and not to forget a box spring bed. I can't wait to start furbishing our new house. Well, I may be a little bit early with this picture of a housewarming, because we are not quite there yet. But we are getting closer though! 

It's been two weeks after our offer was accepted and we made some progress. The purchase contract has been signed, the employer's statement is filled in, we decided on the type of mortgage we feel most comfortable with, the house has been valued and we agreed on a notary. Next week the official papers for the mortgage application will be ready. Quite a lot of arranging like I stated in a previous post, but it gives me energy doing all of it.

Only a little less than two months and we are getting the keys and can start painting and doing some little chores in and around the house. After that we can put in the furniture and start decorating and making it a real home. This weekend my boyfriend and I will probably start to look for furniture more seriously. Obviously we already visited quit some furniture stores, but when you don't know in which house or room they will be put, it is difficult to really search for something. 

Ciao!

Ixis

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lot's of arranging

Our offer was accepted, so the arranging of all the finances and paperwork has begun. We had another talk about the mortgage, arranged statements from the employer, necessary to get the mortgage and we received the concept buyers agreement. We hope to have completed everything within the next two months so we can arrange the key transfer. Well a lot of arranging as you can read!

Ciao!

Ixis

Offer accepted =D

Got a text from my boyfriend this morning that our final offer was accepted! I'm really happy now. Hopefully the arranging of the mortgage and all the paperwork will go without problems and we are proud home owners!

Ciao!
Ixis

Update house search

After the rejection of our first offer, my boyfriend and I talked to figure out how much we like this house. We concluded that we really like it and want to give buying it another chance. A new offer was made last week. Yesterday we received a counter proposal by the vendors. Which is actually good news to us because now we know there is space to negotiate concerning the asking price. As our first offer was just rejected without a counter proposal we were a bit scared there was no room at all. Even though their counter proposal is still somewhat above our budget so we placed them a final offer. I keep my fingers crossed and hope that the vendors will accept our final offer! 

Ciao!
Ixis