B is for buying a house!

Here are some pics of the finished (mostly) main floor!


living room as you walk in the front door


dining room


in the living room


dining room (blinds that are finally hung)


from the dining room towards the front door


part of the kitchen


hallway back to the bedrooms and bathroom


bathroom


guest bedroom


our bedroom


stairs down to the basement (which I can't post any pictures of that because it is a mess). will post later!
well it feels really good to have things mostly all put together. Nelson's parents come tomorrow so that will be great to show them our new place!

A,B, Cs of our lives

I have seen a few other blogs that are going through the alphabet and posting pics of the A,B,Cs of their lives. So I am going to give it a try-
A is for Altima. Nelson and I both have Altimas. They look completely different as they are 6 years apart, but nonetheless, they are great friends and treat us very well.

Blood, Sweat, and Tears

Well, we did it! We moved to our new house! It was a little intense and I am still sore, but it was totally worth it. We had some blood on Saturday when I cut my hand and blead on the couches (but we ended up giving those away-I don't have any weird diseases and I mostly cleaned it up-it is a long story of why we had to give them away, basically, very long and emotional story short, they didn't fit in the basement and we had to do something with them right away because we only had the truck for a day so we just dropped them off at the Goodwill). The sweat was all weekend long, even though it was only about 45 degrees outside, we were sweating up a storm. And the tears came when we couldn't get the couches down into the basement. But other than that, things are good and we are in the unpacking phase now. I will post some pics when I feel like things have come together a little bit more!
oh yeah, my favorite part of the weekend-Nelson hit another car's outside rear view mirror with the U-Haul. We had to pull over, the guy pulled over, thankfully there was no damage and the guy was really nice but he did say "drive carefully" as we were leaving. We didn't have any more problems the rest of the time!

Paint!

Well, we have done some painting, the only pics I have right now are from the living and dining rooms. Once I finish the bathroom, I will post those too! These are the only two same pictures I took even though they are not exactly the same, they give a good before and after!

before


after

Valances!

Well, I made a valence! I just had enough energy for one, so hopefully the next one will be ok!! Here it is-it will go in the guest bedroom! Nelson is holding it like it will be hung (hopefully not crooked though)!!

HOMEOWNERS!!!

We are officially homeowners now! It is really exciting! I just can't believe it actually happened, and now we have a house!!!!!!!!!! We are going to go out to dinner tonight to celebrate and then get started on our work! Yeah!

Here is us with our new key and me with a bottle of wine from our title company (Nelson's work) where we closed!

Go Cards!

We went to our first Cardinal's game of the year tonight. It was fantastic and the Cards did really well. It was a little freezing so we left a few innings early because Nelson was wearing flip flops and his toes were so cold. And for some reason he did not like my suggestion of letting him borrow my socks to wear on his feet under his flips. I am not sure why he didn't like that idea :) We had some great baseball food (hot dog, pretzel, soda) and then ran out of money but that was ok, it was worth it! We got to watch the hat dance, see a home run but we didn't make it on the kiss cam. I really really want to. I am thinking about bringing a sign next time that says nothing about baseball but instead "Please put us on the Kiss Cam" that would be great! Well, it was a great night and great to not think about house things (although we did drive by later on and saw they did get the roof on today!!!)!
Go Cards!!!