christmas in july

I am turning our middle bedroom into a media library. I wanted to paint before I took all my CD’s, DVD’s and books out of the boxes but getting anything in this house painted is taking more time than I originally anticipated. So after about seven months of storage I decided to use my day off to unpack my stuff sans paint. It was like Christmas come early for me as I opened each box and pulled out my beloved CD’s...popping one after the other into the CD player and singing along to all my favs as I made my way through the numerous boxes. I had the same childlike delight as I made it through the DVD boxes making future movie night plans in my head!

weekend 3

This is our third weekend living in the house but it feels so much longer. We continued to organize things inside the house and work on the yard. We made the most progress on our enclosed porch.

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Believe it or not...besides the desk the rest of those boxes are garbage. Most of it is from the previous owners that we are slowly getting rid of...sooner rather than later I hope!

Saturday night we took a walk and admired all the historic homes in our neighborhood. They are all just gorgeous!

The highlight though was the Turkey BLT's and the Stuffed French Toast Sundaes I made! De...lic...ious!!!!!

cook yourself some lemon bars!

Today my first non family member came to see our new home…the best girl in the world…and my friend since the beginning of time! I was really excited to show her around and I was even more excited to make the lemon bars we had been planning to bake. If getting to chat over lemon bars and coffee wasn’t enough excitement she surprised me with the best house warming gift ever! The Cook Yourself Thin Cookbook…and copies of three Ray LaMontagne CD’s! What can I say she knows me and I love her!!!



Sorry…I don’t have a picture of the lemon bars…we dug into those before I could think about a picture!!

YES!

Two years ago my dad went to Italy and brought me back a really nice and expensive bottle of red wine. The only provision was to save it for a special occasion. When we finally closed on our house I of course wanted to pop the cork and pour a glass but my boyfriend said to wait. Today I found out why! After months of calculated planning he proposed to me!!! It was perfect and the surprise of the century! Needless to say we didn't have to wait anymore to enjoy our wine!!!!

you've got mail!

We were very excited last Thursday when we received our first congratulations on your new home card in the mail! We have received two more since then and I just want to say thank you so much for your thoughtfulness and an extra thank you to the ones that included gifts! We appreciate it more than you can know!

a memorial day to remember

I can’t deny that the extra day off was a plus…

However…while everyone was enjoying their hamburgers and hot dogs we were having our resident plumber, Walter, clean out our pipes due to some over grown tree roots. If that wasn’t enough…a good portion of the carpet in the basement was soaked from the pipes backing up…so we were struggling for a way to dry it out quickly.

My goal today was to get the dining table actually in the dining room. I am happy to say...result!



My boyfriend and my dad were hard at work in the yard cutting down some trees that were taking over our deck.

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I can actually see out to the yard now!

day 2

Last night was the first night we slept in the house. It was really weird being there at night because up until then we had only been at the house during the day so it made me a little uneasy at first. Getting to sleep has always been a challenge for me but since I was undoubtedly exhausted I thought I would have no problems. I was wrong. With the combination of my boyfriend’s relentless snoring and the house creaking and cracking I think I got about 2 hours of uninterrupted sleep.

Two hours of sleep or not...I am quickly finding out that a home has no use for a tired homeowner. So at about 7am I was downstairs making some coffee and going through the mountain of boxes. I must have said it at least 10 times…“how did we get so much stuff?” More interestingly is how did it all fit in our one bedroom apartment?!

My main focus was the kitchen…which I felt was pretty well organized by the end of the day.

While I was busy in the kitchen Dish Network was busy for like 5 hours installing our dish and setting up our cable in four rooms...all I can say is...thank you!