October 23, 2009: Phase IIII Touching up

Friday we stayed up very late putting the finishing touches on everything.

Here's our room




And here's the boys room



We even got a coat of paint on the guest room. Unfortunately the pokemon rendition is still showing through 3 coats of primer and a coat of paint. We're hoping that one more coat will do.



The other half of the guest room will be wood paneling so that's why we've left it unfinished.

We touched some stuff up around the house too. There's still a lot of work to be done, but for now we are ready to move in :)

October 22, 2009: Phase III We Begin Painting

Thursday we started to apply actual paint to our room. . .




. . .and the boys room.

October 21, 2009: Phase II

Today we finished putting primer on the rooms upstairs. I thought I took a picture but I didn't

We also made our way downstairs to the boys room to see what the damage was.



As always there's more to paint and fix than we originally thought, but we're getting there.

October 19 and 20, 2009: Phase I of Project House into Home

Here are some pictures of the living room and kitchen. We don't plan on making any drastic changes to these rooms as of now.





This is one of the rooms we've been working on the last two days. This room will be mine and Craig's room. We've been putting on a coat of primer, and now hopefully we can start the actual painting.



This is the other room we've been working on. This will be our guest room. We've been giving it a nice coat of primer too.

October 15, 2009: A Big Step and a Huge Adventure

Thursday was the big day! Craig and I were given the key to our first house.

The first few days we spent in sort of a daze. We kind of kept forgetting that we could now work on the house.

On Monday we kicked ourselves in the butt and went to work. We bought bought 6 gallons of paint and a bucket of primer, and began the process of making our house our home.

October 13, 2009: Witches at Gardner Village

On Tuesday the boys and I met Craig up at Gardner Village for our traditional Halloween visit. We decided to go during the day, and before it got too crowded, but unfortunately we picked a day that was windy and stormy. Everyone still enjoyed themselves though.





We, of course, visited the candy store. I got a giant peanut butter cup and Craig got a caramel apple. Then we walked around and took some pictures with the witches.







The boys started to get hungry so we headed to Archibald's Restaurant to feed them. Apparently they don't allow strollers in there, so we had to park ours outside. We fed the boys and got some food for ourselves.



After dinner, we headed to the Christmas Store to get out of the rain. This is my favorite store! We picked up some "Baby's first Christmas" ornaments for the boys, and bought a few other decorations that were on clearance.





The best part of this trip was that we finally wore my nephew out and he slept for the whole drive home. ;)

October 9, 2009: A Fun Little Visit

On Friday night we got a fun visit from Craig's mom, Aunt and Grandma. The boys were so excited to see everyone. But the one who was really excited was my nephew. He spun around and around on the floor trying to get everyone's attention. I finally told him he should tell them about school or sing some songs. So he read them a book and sang his phone number and address song. Mean while Big H showed off his jumping skills, and little H showed off his standing skills. It was a fun night for everyone!

I'm glad you guys could stop by! We sure enjoyed the visit.