Craigslist steal

Bernie and Phly's leather soda and 2 rocking/ side chairs! So excited to have some furniture in the family room. Mike and I have been checking craigslist like crazy for furniture and construction stuff ( aka wood flooring, doors etc). Sometimes we find crazy good deals. Hoping to find a dining room set soon ! Mike wants to host poker night at our house now that we have the space.

First pool day

Completed Fence ...

A year in the making....

We bought this swing set last summer. We finally have our new house and new backyard to put it in. Keira is excitedly watching it take shape and Israel keeps saying " Swing swing?" They are so excited to have a swing set to play and climb on. We gave our old metal one to some scrap metal guys about a month and half ago so they have missed having a swing set. The fence is almost complete too. There is one tiny section that they will finish on Monday. Its half vinyl privacy fence and half vinyl picket.

hmmm cupcakes!

Keira's reaction to the surprise cupcakes Mike brought home after work!

They don't "look" good because they melted a bunch in the car as it was so hot but they were delicious!!!!!!!!! If you go to Queen City Cupcakes ( new place on Elm Street) I highly recommend you try the cookie dough cupcake. It was amazing!

Happy Guy

Happy 4th Birthday Keira!

She woke up and found a trunk of dress up stuff, some books, and new shoes on the breakfast table! Daddy is getting her a giant cupcake from Queen City cupcakes and we are having a tea party next week to celebrate. Can't believe in 1 more year she will be going to Kindergarten! She is still a very imaginative child who loves dress up, dolls, princess stuff and books. Happy Birthday to our oldest!

Fence Installation

Happy 2 Months Nairi!

Stump removal

Huge roots on the over grown bushes

after stump removal

Hipperts truck. They attached chains and pulled the stumps out that way.

We still have a few bushes to remove. At least 5 neighbors have told us they are so glad the bushes are gone as they were such an eye sore to the neighborhood

Smores Fun

Im having issues with blogger so forgive the backwards order and half my pics didn't upload as the pc died while upload so this is the best I have. Yes day 2 of owning the house we went into high gear and started project number 1 or 2. Extremely tall ugly bushes tear down. With a saw and a mini chainsaw and lots of muscle and man powder Mike, his dad, and Anthony cut back the way over grown hemlock bushes and the crazy Rhododendron bushes. They are going to work on getting the stumps out today. The Rhododendron bushes they just cut way back so they are blocking the windows. We will see if they come back. Anyways we will replace the hemlock bushes with something just not sure what yet. This is the after pic... ( but pre mulch)


Can't stand bushes blocking windows! Not to mention the window sills are all rotted out because the bushes didn't allow that part of the house to get any sun.




The way to small moving truck






The kids playhouse arriving on the flatbed truck

The very ugly wall paper in the family room. ( plastic is on the floor for the movers)

( dining room with white carpet)

Pre bush removal. There are a few other bushes we are going to take out and a bunch we are going to trim down.

Will post a bunch more exciting pics once we get unpacked and the house is more livable.

The new money pit!!

Yay new house!!! So moving day went okay. We hired a big company and the movers themselves did a great job but the estimater had grossly underestimated the amount of stuff we have so he sent a too small truck and only 3 guys to get the job done. He had also forgot about the kids playhouse. He told Mike he didn't have to take it apart so we didn't. The truck was so full there was no way it was going in there. Mikes dad and cousin made 3 pick up truckloads and the movers made 2 trips and sent a special flatbed truck for the kids playhouse. All in all the job got done. Big THANKS to our awesome friends and family who have spent hours here ( and continue to do so) helping unpack, clean, put things together. The kids seem to have adjusted fairly well and are loving all the new space. We got the AC fixed yesterday thank goodness because we went straight from 50 degree temps to mid 80's and very high humidity. Its been a sweaty few days. And the comcast guy was here yesterday so we now have phone ( same #) and internet again.

Just a cute random popsicle pic. Emily, Keira and Israel

Finally a date!

Thursday is offically closing and moving day. And so the madness moves into high gear.

Moving madness

Yeah thats us right now. Everythng is dragging.... at first it was the buyers of our current house. Not having all their paperwork squared away. Then they were all set and the lawyer for the house we are buying is dragging his heels claiming he needs time to review all 8, yes 8 pages of paperwork he has. GRRRRR
To make matters more annoying as we sit around and do more of my favorite - WAITTING. Its been raining nonstop all week. Yes for a full week we have not seen the sun. Its been gloomy and dreary and depressing and cold and not so nice. I would love to see some sun!
Still waiting on offical word for closing and moving day. Hoping for Monday now but Friday the 27 at the latest. Mike and I went over to our soon to be new house last night and cleaned the bathrooms and kitchen and got rid of any residant spiders. We also had all the carpets professionally cleaned. And yeah we forgot the camera. Maybe we will go take pics tonight or tomorrow.
Meanwhile Nairi is growing and changing everyday. She smiles all the time now and is "talking aka cooing" up a storm.
Ohh and in case anyone wonders why I can't seem to spell check my posts. Spell check on blogger isn't working. Anyone know a computer guy?