Your signature, please

This past Thursday, Robby and I drove to Fresno to sign our final papers for our house. Being first time homebuyers, we seem to make classic little mistakes. For example, you are apparently supposed to always sign your full name on important records (did anyone else know this?), so we were nearly to the end of a giant stack of papers when our loan officer realized that Rob had been signing "Robert J. Feely" instead of "Robert Jerome Feely." So naturally we had to go back through the whole set and try to squeeze five more letters in the middle of his signature. By that time we also had realized that I was initialing "CF" for everything instead of "CDF." Also not okay. We made it through the process though, and hopefully Tulare County will not reject us. Perhaps the hefty little check we had to hand over to them will help :)

After signing we celebrated at BJ's Restaurant with our favorites: BBQ chicken pizza and of course a pizookie (half and half). To officially end the night with "sparks," we drove down Christmas Tree Lane and were amazed at the elaborate decor. Although it is inspiring, I don't think we will be able to decorate our home quite to that level next year.

This one reminded me of Disneyland! (It's not quite the same, though.)