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My mom and dad came down yesterday afternoon and surprised us with a new garage door opener (and a drill for David) for Father’s Day. David and my dad got to spend the rest of the day installing it in the garage (which was a virgin garage, never having had a garage door [...]
Here are some pictures of our Master bedroom. I don’t think I want my bedroom displayed for all to see right now (the bed is unmade, there are no curtains up) so I am taking detail pics of things in the bedroom.
This is a lovely mirror that I scored at [...]
So I did a bit of complaining in the last post and pointed out a bunch of negatives. Here are some good things:
The boys’ rooms are bigger than they’ve ever been. :-)
We have a “toy” room.
Since moving in, we have spent more time outside than we ever did before. This has pushed [...]
Tomorrow we will have been living in this house for one month and we’ve learned a lot about this house.  First off, it has ants everywhere, in every room, and they’re the nasty kind.  Not the innoculous little sugar ants, though those are running rampant, too.  They’re not what I would call fire ants, having grown up in [...]
My mom watched the boys yesterday while I made a trip with her truck back to the duplex to bring a load of stuff over. Â She took a really cute video which I will eventually try to get embedded here but for now, I wanted to post a peek into the new house.
That, [...]
More pictures coming soon! We move in on Saturday and hopefully we’ll have our camera with us when it happens.
Check back soon to see if we survive moving with two little boys and a pregnant momma. I have my doubts.
As you can probably tell, I haven’t had a break from the morning sickness yet. Thinking about paint makes the queasiness even worse. That new house smells funny (like too much air freshner and fresh paint all mixed together) and I dread the thought of going over there, just for the smell. Being [...]
…but it’s ours. Actually, David and my dad put in hours of work pulling weeds out (by the roots) — WEEDS, I mean, 3 or 4 foot tall weeds — and then David mowed with our new mower. It looks like an ordinary weedy yard, but it’s ours.
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