We're Getting There

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  We celebrated ours at the new house.  Besides being in a house with nothing on the walls, hanging out on a couch with a missing pillow, and seeing bags and laundry baskets of home decor sitting around, it was very nice.  We moved all of the kitchen stuff first, so aside from our turkey platter which was still packed up, we had everything we needed.



We almost have everything moved over from the old house.  All that's left is part of the garage and then, of course, a little bit of cleaning to final out.  Unfortunately, the new garage is the same small size, so Jason wants to build some shelves so everything fits better.  We will have it all finished up this weekend and then our final inspection is on Tuesday.  (Thank goodness!!)

At our new place it has been interesting and a little stressful trying to put together our home and get Christmas decorations up at the same time.  It's getting better now, but there were a few days there that both Jason and I had the "bah humbugs."



Brennan on the other hand has just rolled with all the changes.  He had a little trouble on the first night falling asleep in his new room, but from then it's been great.  He's already showed he can make just as much of a crafty mess in this house as he did in the last one. : )



So I'm off to go find places for more of our stuff.  Have a great day!

Checking In

We have big news around our casa!  Big as in we are moving to a bigger casa!  We will be gaining 300 square feet, an extra bedroom, and a dining room.  Yay!  The backyard is also much nicer, larger and in a square shape instead of an "L."  The landscaping isn't great, but then neither was the landscaping at this house, but we quickly remedied that.  Remember our Yard of the Month award? : )

We don't get the keys until the 21st, and we have big goals of getting all moved in before Thanksgiving.  Not impossible, but we'll have to see how many helpers with trucks we can round up.

Of course, there will be some things we miss about this house.  We really like the neighbors that moved in next door, and their little miniature schnauzer too.  He and Chloe are good buddies.

And then there are the amazing sunsets we can see from the backyard.



On the bright, or should I say less sunny side, our new house is oriented so that the patio will be shaded in the afternoon and evening.  It will be nice to hang out back there without feeling like we are sitting on the face of the sun.

Did I mention we will have an actual dining room?  Yep, I am excited about that.  It will be so nice to not have carpet under our dining room table!  It will be great to have a living room that's not trying to be a living room/dining room/office/playroom!

So, I have lots to organize and purge in the next week.  I'm sure our garbage can will be full and I will have a couple loads to take to the thrift store.  I'll take pictures as soon as I can.

Have a great day!