Monday, November 17, 2008

Just about settled in

We've been really busy getting everything moved into our new place! It has been a lot of fun unpacking everything and finally being in a house. Apartment living had gotten old to both of us and we were really ready for this.

I took off the end of the week after closing and took about 5 van loads of stuff over, with Audrey's help in the evenings to start unpacking. Then Sunday we got the Riata moving truck to get the rest of the big furniture moved.

We've also had a few projects - we already repainted one whole room, chopped down an ugly cedar "tree" in the front yard, and did some yard work around the tree beds.

Here was our painting job, which we're pretty proud of, for a first attempt at home-improvement :-)

Before - their kid's room with neon green & bright blue alternating walls:



After - we're not quite sure how to describe the color. Kinda a blue-gray-green. Behr calls it "Pinedale Shores":





Also, yesterday, while outside, a bunch of the neighbors stopped by to say hi, and they seem like a fun crowd, so that was great. They all have kids, so every day there are hide and seek games and fun stuff like that happening in the cul-de-sac (today it looks like it's soccer).

Anyway, that's about it for now. We gotta figure out what to do for dinner. We're lost without our Riata grills.... we really need to find one since grilling is just about our only means of cooking for ourselves!

2 comments:

Kristen said...

the paint job looks great! can't wait to see the house! love you!

Unknown said...

yeah that paint job did turn out nice, i love that color.

i like how you call it a "tree" lol it was probably worthy of the ""s though.

looking forward to coming over again soon and seeing everything all set up!