One Month In...

I am so excited that I can take photos in front of my house again now that our PM replaced our two dead trees by the front door.  They don't warranty landscaping so we knew it might be a long shot getting the trees replaced, we hoped for the really really dead one because it was dead before we closed.  Anyway the second our PM came by for our post settlement follow up on Monday morning our adorable 4 year asked him for a new tree.  Who could resist her request? Haha. It was too funny, I couldn't believe she ran right up and asked him. Wonder if we would have had the same luck as her if we were the ones who asked?   😉

 Anyway, came home this morning from being away a couple hours, to our two front trees being replaced. What a nice surprise!

 In other news we worked for an hour or so Saturday afternoon, putting all the littles to work as well 😄 and we finally got all the boxes and furniture out of the garage and can park both of our cars in the garage.  We love it.


Tonight, my sweet husband, after working a full day, going with me to pick up my van from the mechanic (dead alternator), and then going to a tire store to attempt to have my tire plugged (dumb construction site screws!!! Makes me mad I go around picking them up out of the roads in an effort to save everyone's tires and I end up with one in my very expensive tire... ugh.) Anyway, it couldn't be plugged, and we had to order a new tire since they didn't have the size we needed... but he came home from doing all that and still managed to muster up the energy to hang my new curtain rods and curtains in the family room.  Love that man!

As you can see we are slowly... very slowly... pulling together our family room.  Still waiting on that couch to be delivered. Think it'll be after the holiday now. Bummer.

 But we are loving it coming together. I am not a decorator but I wish I was. Its fun for me but hard to know if certain patterns and colors will work together.

Sunday night I wrote a blog post but kept it as a draft because I thought I would contact Ryan Homes first and let them try to fix our problem before venting publicly.  So glad that I did that because they fixed our problem right away.  We hadn't heard from our PM once since pre settlement and we were over 30 days.  We heard our new neighbors were about to have a 10 day post settlement follow up and that felt wrong to us that we hadn't even heard from him, and our things pre settlement never were fixed.  Anyways, I emailed our SR and was probably over dramatic but I have been extra emotional lately... he emailed back first thing in the morning, then we got a phone call from our PM and he scheduled to come over that morning to do our post settlement follow up. 

Turned out there was a mix up btw two PMs we had, an old one and a new one and each thought the other was handling our follow ups and actually that meant no one was. And since we didn't have any contact information for our PM we had no way to let him know we were being forgotten. 

Anyway, its all fixed now.  Next Thursday we are scheduled to have our issues addressed, which include scratches in hardwood floors, wall touch ups on drywall and paint, a new window, vinyl in kids bath, shutter and garage door. 

We received our survey in an email and will be filling it out as soon as our things are all fixed.  Can't believe its been a month in our house here.  :)