It's Official :)

Yes! So I ended up calling NVR on Friday because I couldn't bear to think of going through the whole weekend again without knowing.  Our NVR rep said "Oh, she didn't call you yet?" WTF??? Apparently someone was supposed to have called us some time ago to tell us we were approved! Anyway, so I had no time to be angry because I was super excited! We went on Saturday and took our pictures with our 'SOLD' sign, that made it even more official! Today, we stopped over at my grandparents' house to tell them (they had given me a large gift of money several years ago and this was put towards the down payment, so they needed to be one of the first to know).  Then we went to my other grandparents' house for our Christmas celebration there. We were trying to think of a fun way to tell everyone but Gary just ended up putting the picture of us with our sold sign on my grandma's picture display in the dining room.  My sister saw it first--after about 25 minutes--she turned and gave me a "What??" kind of look.  And then we were able to tell everyone. So finally, no more secrets! :) Ground-breaking is scheduled to begin on December 29th!

Meetings and more...

The past two days have been busy! Last night we met with Guardian to figure out our "home technology" options.  We felt like almost everything was completely overpriced and a lot of the things we could do ourselves down the road.  The only thing we decided to do for sure is to install cable outlets in the bedrooms. Since we haven't officially been approved by NVR yet, we were not required to make our final selections and put our deposit down, which made me really happy because we were able to come home and talk about everything instead of hashing things out in front of the rep.  We are also considering the alarm system, but we have also been looking at other companies to compare prices.  We are torn about having our great room cable installed over the fireplace or on a different wall.  The way the room is set up, I feel like it would be an awkward and confining room arrangement if it's over the fireplace. We may just have cable installed in both areas and make those decisions when the time comes to move in.

Today we had our pre-construction meeting.  It was very.....long.  It was informative and thorough though, and I really enjoyed meeting our project manager.  The best part was we were able to walk through a Sienna that is about to be finished in our neighborhood.  There are no Sienna models anywhere near us, so it has been really hard to visualize everything.  Before we signed our purchase agreement, we made arrangements with the sales rep to visit a Sienna that was already being lived in, but it's been so long now that we forgot what it was like! When we walked into the Sienna today I was VERY excited to see that they chose the same fireplace (absolute black) and cupboards (wyoming cherry bordeaux) with a very similar countertop and the same stainless steel appliances that we chose.  So it was almost like seeing what ours is going to look like! I had a smile on my face for at least an hour after leaving :)

We also went to our homesite with the project manager and everything has already been staked out! The house looks so small looking at it that way, but it was really exciting.  Now all we need is NVR to approve us...any day now! I would hate to think that everyone is putting so much time and energy into this if we are not going to get approved! Fingers crossed.....

still no answer

I'm driving myself nuts waiting for the phone call from NVR telling us if we are approved or not.  I have figured that it should happen any day now...We completed the loan application on 11/24, and it's now 12/12....meaning 18 days.  Of course, the long Thanksgiving weekend was lumped into that 18 days so maybe that has caused a delay.  I just feel like I'd be a little bit more excited about our pre-construction meeting on Thursday if I knew we were approved! Here's to crossing my fingers...