May 30, 2006

• I am still going to have Brian do the last trip update but I need to start updating the present before it becomes to far past. 

  
  

  We had a few shaky moments when trying to close escrow on the new house.  The day before the scheduled closing (May 17th) we got a call at 4pm.  The loan folks didn’t have some of the correct paperwork from the close of our last property.  Way to wait until the very last minute people.  Brian was at least an hour from home and his cell phone was almost dead as he called me to hurry back to his parents house and look for the right phone numbers to make the calls.  Then his phone was dead and I was on my own.  Luckily I found what I needed and made the calls and the people on the other end were cooperative and faxed over the right docs and we closed on time. 

  
  

  The reason we were so anxious to close at that exact date is we had stone experts coming in the next day to work on our floor.  We had to schedule with them weeks out and we wanted the work done before we moved in.  All went according to plan and we closed on Dad’s birthday (May 18th).  The floor was completed on the 19th and we moved in on the 20th.  Brian rented a Uhaul.  A really big on this time so we only had to make one trip.  He and his father, sister Adriane, and her boyfriend Vito helped load the truck and unload.  I took the girls and we made sure we had groceries to fill the fridge and I tried to keep them out of the way.  I started in the kitchen and we got that mostly unpacked and we set up the bedrooms.  We spent our first night on Saturday the 20th. 

  
  

  Ahhhh!!!  Central Air.  It is so nice to be back in a climate controlled house.  The weather has been rather nice but it is still nice to have it stay the same in the house all the time.  We are pretty much moved in but need to put some garage storage in and get that space organized.  We also need to build some living room shelves.  We got a new TV since we sold ours to the buyer of our last house.  Serra has a new mattress and will get her bed delivered this week.  Our first new kitchen table should also arrive this week.  We picked up our new couch on Saturday.  NICE!  Jeff and Maren helped us get it in the house and set up. 

  
  

  That’s right.  Late Friday evening Jeff and Maren came into town to get a look around and check out the new school.  It was a lot of fun having them here.  We did the buffet thing on Saturday night and spent some time cruising around the area looking at various apartments.  This a big move for them and they have a lot to do once they get here.  They went to our new ward with us (the right one this time).  It has a good mix of people older and younger, but has the typical Las Vegas feel.  Oh, a new person. Whatever.

  
  

  Serra cried when I told her Jeff and Maren were leaving yesterday.  She asked, “But who will play hide and seek with me?”  I told her Daddy like to play.  “But Daddy has to go to work”  Jeff and Maren were so good and played with her constantly. 

  
  

  A little over a week ago I got all the car insurance stuff taken care of and promised the guy we would have the drivers licence info soon.  It took me a week but we finally scheduled a day to go to the DMV and get registered and new Nevada licenses.  Friday was the day and so I went to a move in website and printed up a page that listed all the documents I would need to take care of all that. 

  
  

  Current Drivers licence, Social Security Card, current registration, insurance proof, smog check,  VIN check docs, licence plates.  I had it all in my little folder ready the night before.  We got up and out the door by 8:30 with both kids and were to the DMV by 9.  We waited in the first line.  “I’m sorry but you also need birth certificates and Mrs. Anderson will need a marriage certificate.”  Are you serious.  I brought everything your website said to bring.  “That’s not our website and everything has changed since 9/11 anyway.”  So leaving Brian with the girls I left the DMV in my car with no plates, no proof of insurance or registration, hopping mad. I don’t know what I would have done if I had been pulled over. I came back to the house 20 minutes away and rifled through boxes until I found the said docs and headed back.  I had cooled down slightly.  We waited in line again.  “I’m sorry but we can’t accept this marriage certificate.  This was issued by the church.  We need and official one from the state.”  SERIOUSLY.

  
  

  I was about to have a coronary I was so angry.  I was never issued one from the state when we got married.  Believe me if I had one it would have been in my files.  I keep everything like that and I know where I keep them.  There are few things worse than the DMV, especially with 2 kids, one whining that she wants to go home and the other screaming because she is tired and needs a nap.  Brian was able to zip through because he wasn’t required to have the marriage certificate.  I asked to speak to a supervisor even though it was the supervisor that told us sorry already.  I pulled out everything I had and became the VERY squeaky wheel.  It paid off.  They made an EXCEPTION because I kept my maiden name as a middle name and it was on all the documentation.  We were there for at least another hour waiting in several lines to finish it all up. 

  
  

  I am glad to have that out of the way.  Brian has his new computer which I am on right now and we should have mine today.  (just arrived actually) I have a lot of work to do with all our vacation pictures.  I am not really looking forward to tackling that.  At least it will be a fast machine.  Brian has been busy with his new construction business.  Most of his time is spent meeting with people giving them estimates on jobs they want done, (Pools, patios, etc…) learning things like autocad, meetings with his dad to work out business stuff, and running work and home related errands.  Even with everything he is doing we still see so much more of him than before.  It is wonderful.

  
  

  One of the nasty things Brian has been dealing with since our return from the East is our latest bought of identity theft.  While we were in Washington D.C. we checked out of our hotel on the last day and put our things in storage.  We didn’t want all our stuff sitting in the car and figured it would be more secure with the hotel.  One of our bags was Brian’s computer bag with his laptop, all of the loan applications for the new house (filled out), business checks, an American Express gift card, etc.  Someone took their time going through that bag and stole the business checks and who knows what else. (Brian is not exactly sure what else was in there)  We were clueless about it until we got home and Dwaine was trying to figure out why his checks were bouncing all over the place.  So far 2 checks have come through. One for $2000 and one for $5000.  Luckily the bank is covering it but Brian and his Dad have had to close all the business accounts and we have had to do the same with our personal accounts.  We now are having to sign on with one of these companies that alert us if anything is opened with our names and social security numbers and we can check our credit reports all the time.  It is so irritating and scary too.  I had just ordered new checks.  I have bills to pay and I have to wait for the new account to be available and checks to be ordered through that account.  We are going to try to get the Omni hotel to investigate I doubt they will do anything.  The banks are doing some investigating but the thief is experienced and will be hard to track down.  He isn’t overly bright though as he signed one of the checks Brain Anderson.

  
  

  Yesterday we had our first party.  We invited over Brian’s parents, Adriane and Vito, and Jeff and Maren were still here too.  We received some ribs from Cincinnati in the mail (I know, weird) from our lender, and so we BBQ ed those and some burgers and had a nice afternoon watching the boys play war on the X-box.  It is so nice to have a big enough place with room for everyone  to comfortably fit. 

  
  

  As soon a I get my computer set up I will start posting pictures again. 

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