Moving day pictures!

We moved on Wednesday July 4th. It was a great day to move and we had wonderful help. We moved in an hour and 45 minutes (minus the attic and shop contents). We were able to sleep in our new home that night! Here are a few pics of our move!

Part of our moving crew: Kenny, Chad, Marvin, Dane, Brandon

Moving a bed frame inside. Brandon is the man! 

A sneak peak of how our living room is arranged

Muscles that brought the piano in

A very mess house in the process of moving and unpacking the kitchen

See where we put our couch and piano? 

Hardwood pictures!

Finally I have access to internet! I am using the internet at the house where I babysit. Even better news is that we should get internet at our house on Tuesday of next week! It'll be amazing having internet again! So here are some pics for now. I realize that I need to take some more pictures of our house (possibly after all our boxes are unpacked) to show where we put our furniture. Putting in hardwood floors were a ton of work. There were many hours spent with brows glistening and extremely sore backs. But all of that hard work, long hours and sore muscles were so worth it. Both Dennis and I are so happy with how our floors turned out. They are gorgeous! Please come and visit us and pick out your favorite board! Happy looking at hardwood floor pictures! :)

Standing in the hallway looking into the living room 

Standing in living room looking towards front door and kitchen

Standing in front doorway looking towards living room

The whole living room

The hallway and laundry closet

The hallway that leads to bedrooms and bathroom.

still no internet

Unfortunately we still don't have internet at our house. Actually, in some ways it's quite lovely although doing the necessary internet-type-things on our phones are getting quite cumbersome! 


We got most of the way moved in on Wednesday, July 4th and the 5th I went back to Dale & Kari's to clean it. That day, I also learned that Troy and Lyle were planning on staying with us that weekend! So, Friday (the 6th) I got the kitchen stuff put away and Saturday mom, dad, Dennis and I worked really hard and got our house most of the way unpacked! We got both our guest beds set up and doors on the bedrooms. The guest toilet got put back into it's spot and a shower curtain got hung. Those were some busy preparation days but we are thankfully almost all the way unpacked! And as of Saturday, July 14th all of our stuff junk is out of the attic and shop at Dale & Kari's! Wahoo for more unpacking and sorting to be done! :)


Saturday, July 14th I co-hosted a baby shower for Julia Benjamin. There were about 26 ladies that showed up and we played lots of games! We played the question answer game (you read your question and the person next to you reads their answers), poopy diaper and tasting baby food game. It was quite a full day but oh so fun! 


Later that evening, Julia treated me to a pedicure - and now I have bright green toenails! They are so fun looking! 


For a couple of weeks now I have really been missing my TX friends. I am hoping to come visit soon ... I just have to plan when! 


When we have internet, I'll update my blog with pics!

No Internet yet

We don't yet have Internet at our house. It's been nice not getting sucked into 'oh I have just one more thing to look up' however made me realize how much I do rely on the Internet. We do both have our 'smart phines' which can do just about everything - only on a way smaller screen. We're mostly unpacked, with a huge thanks to my mom and dad. They came this past weekend and helped us! We already have company stating with us, which is really nice. There's more boxes of stuff in our bedroom that I'm going to get emptied today. We both are enjoying our new home so much. I think it's be ause it belongs to us. We are looking forward to having our house warming party (maybe in August or September). It's amazing what can be done with 200 more sq feet and a different layout than our previous residence. Hope you are all well, I'll update with pics once we get Internet again :)

Moving Day!!!!

The time has finally arrived! We are moving into our first purchased home! You might ask are we all packed? Nope, not yet ... but Jenny Waldo - you know how I like to procrastinate and get easily distracted so here's your blog update! :) 


We have people scheduled to come here at 10 this morning to help us move. Most everything is packed - there is still some stuff left in the pantry and the last minute stuff.


We chose today to be our moving day because one week ago we finished our floors. They look amazing! 


Oh no, my first person to help is here - I will update more later! :)


Jenny - remember 3 years ago on that one hot weekend when you and Don helped us move into this Sherwood house? :) 


More later ... :) 

Locked out of our own house!

Sunday evening we were going to move the hardwoods so that we could get right to work on Monday morning. Well, when we got there Sunday we weren't able to get into our own house! What a strange feeling. We have a electronic, coded deadbolt on our door. It has been super duper handy to give the code to company and they can come and let themselves in if we are not home. Well, the electronics were working - we'd put the code in and it indicated that we entered the right code - but when we turned the knob it wasn't registering to unlatch the deadbolt. And the keys to this deadbolt were locked in the garage in the safe! We walked around our whole house and tried every window and they were all locked. We tried to break in through the sliding glass door but that didn't work either!!! We finally gave up and Monday morning Dennis got in by using a sawzall to get the deadbolt off and we now have a brand new one! We've been told by several people that homeownership is expensive and they weren't kidding! :) We were super glad that our beds are still in Sherwood so that we had somewhere to sleep for the night! I wonder what will happen next.

Lots of hard work = amazing outcomes!

We have owned our house less than 3 weeks and the amount that we've accomplished in that timeframe is amazing. I know we would not have gotten this far without help from: Mel, Debbie, Lloyd, Jenny, John, Janet, Kayla, Bob, Marvin, Judy, June, David, Stacy and Tristan. Some of the above mentioned people have sweated while working in our house and others have been so kind to lend us tools and others to bring food to us. Also, it has been so fun having people just stop by to see our progress. In the almost 3 weeks, we've torn out all of the carpet/flooring, painted all the floors and walls (except the master bath which hopefully will get done before too long), taken out the range (that we found out doesn't work), moved the hardwoods into the house, planted a peony, planted lilacs, mowed the grass, raked the grass, weeded, round-uped, pressure washed the driveway and back patio, started laying hardwoods ... and now we are more than 1/2 way done with laying our hardwoods! We are so extremely thankful for the help that we've received! Dennis is working from 2-10:30 pm these days, so we go to bed around midnight, wake up around 8, get to our new house around 10, work for a couple of hours on it and then he goes off to work.

And, I figured out how to post pics - not the most convenient way - but pics! Please enjoy!

The old color - all taped off to be painted

Jenny rolling after the paint was sprayed

Ah, yes, Jenny and I spent an afternoon at the Rhododendron garden! It was quite lovely!

Gorgeous pink and white flowers

Spider web that my camera took an awesome shot of

Such a beautiful, peaceful place

A bee getting some nectar

You can see the stinger out - pretty awesome

Flowers in focus - water not (still learning how to use my camera)

Water in focus - flowers not

Bottoms up!

These 2 stuck together most of the time - pretty ducks

These little fella's were so cute. They were pretty tiny too.

Pretty bridge over un-troubled water

Jenny and I

Finished color of the walls

Original wall color - we like the new better!

Don - this pic is for you - the airplane successfully made it to the new house and was displayed on the hardwoods!

Our planted peony - thanks again June!

Laying hardwoods - I was wearing the mask because of getting whacked in the face by a board - the mask was a joke though! :)

Glad I have a strong husband! I have refused to try the stapler so far. We are borrowing an air compressor so that makes it easier so I've been told.

This was our progress on Saturday evening. We now have all of the kitchen done and most of the living room. We do have some living room left - but we started in the laundry closet today ... I think we're taking a break from the house tomorrow but we'll see. It's been fun and I can't wait till we're done and then we can have people over to our completed house!