Our First Fire

Dave and I went out and bought some firewood yesterday. We ordered a load to be delivered tomorrow to the house and we also picked up a small bundle to try out the new fireplace last night. Needless to say, our wood was fairly damp, so the fire wasn't very successful, but we'll let it dry out and just keep trying! Notice our new poker set/log holder set we got from Home Depot! The joys of after Christmas shopping with 20% off the floor model that was already on sale! We got it for a steal!!

Dave is busy setting up the surround sound today...he was off work, while I had to go back today. But, I left him a "honey do" list to hang some pictures and do some other small household items. Now, he's on the most important item, surround sound. He's almost done and I'm sure we'll just have the greatest effect while watching movies and tv now! ha ha ha

Happy Holidays!

Hope everyone had a great Christmas and has a Happy New Year! This is a picture from Christmas Eve at my Dad's house...the three of us! And, a picture of Sasha at Dave's parent's house on Christmas Day.

More Work Around the House

We've gotten some more done around the house since I last posted. Figured I'd wait until we got a couple more items crossed off the 'to-do list' before I posted, so I could put them all up here at once. We painted the upper part of the dining room walls last weekend and put up 2 pictures we bought for the room. We're going to paint the bottom half a yellow-brown color and continue the chair rail through the center of the room that's in the foyer. We also finally got our two bamboo roman shades from JCPenney that we ordered back in October, that Dave put up this weekend. We're pretty excited with how they look in our nautical room!! Now we still just need to get the wallpaper for the bottom half of the walls, so it doesn't look so silly with half green. This weekend I also decided to tackle the painting of the guest bathroom.

Some other things we got done this week, were buying doors for our fireplace, since it only came with the mesh curtains, and we also got a log holder to sit outside when we eventually order wood to be delivered!! We still are on the look-out for a poker set and an inside log holder. I love having a fireplace, but I tell ya, there's a lot of accessories you need just to run the darn thing! Hopefully we can have a few fires before spring!

Other than that, not much else is new with us...just trying to relax and enjoy the new place over the holidays! Happy Holidays to everyone!!

2 Week Progress

As promised, here are some pictures I took tonight of the house. We need some more lighting, so some of the pictures are kind of dark, but you can get the general idea of what it looks like now. There are pictures of the Family Room, Kitchen, Living Room, Foyer and the Library or as Dave named it this weekend the "snake cave". Oh yes, and a picture of my closet, because I think it's hilarious that my closet is HUGE and I don't have a lot of clothes to fill it up...I'm sure it's most women's dream size though! Guess I need to go on a shopping spree now! The Library looks funny right now because we've painted the walls, but plan to put wallpaper up. Of course, everything costs money, so in time we'll have the wallpaper! Enjoy and hopefully you can all visit to see the house in person, it's a lot easier to capture everything in person versus a photo. Until then...

THE MOVE!

Well, Dave and I had our closing at 3pm Monday and it went on without a hitch! We were homeowners by 3:45 officially with keys in our hands! Monday evening we unloaded the rental truck into the garage and painted the laundry room. Tuesday we continued to paint (the kitchen) and Dave's parents were gracious enough to bring over lunch and help us do two loads to empty out our storage unit. Wednesday was by far the most interesting day...the garage door opener was installed and luckily for us, the installer alerted us to the fact that there was a leak in the ceiling of our garage, and it was getting a steady stream of water on top of our stuff!! Luckily, we found the source of the problem (a roofer left off a piece of flashing when putting our garage roof on) and it was fixed quickly. Thank heavens it wasn't in our living area!! The painters also came over and started painting the foyer and family room. Dave and I painted our closets and started to situated boxes into rooms, the basement and unpacking the kitchen items. Thursday we finally felt like we started to see progress because my Dad came over to help empty the POD and we finally started setting up furniture! While the boys moved heavy furniture, I painted the library and continued to organize things in the house. The best part of Thursday was that finally, after 6 months, we were able to sleep on a normal mattress...and boy did we sleep well!! Friday was spent setting up all the furniture that came out of the POD on Thursday and I did a bit more painting. (I was actually supposed to work on Friday, but because of weather they told everyone to work from home...wahoo, I felt like a kid having a snow day!) Friday evening, we went and picked up THE BIG SCREEN that Dave was so badly missing and set it up in the entertainment center. Saturday was spent hanging window coverings and some art work, sealing the grount in the bathrooms and foyer and having our cable and internet set up (Yes, I am blogging from home now!!!). I think tomorrow we'll enjoy the Bears game at home to relax a bit before we go back to the grind on Monday, but I'm sure we'll do a bit more painting and situating with the day also. I will load some pics up soon to show you the progress we've made. We'd love any visitors too!