THANKSGIVING

Thanksgiving was awesome. We went to St. George and met our newest neice Hadley. We were so lucky we were able to be there for her baby blessing. Welcome to our crazy family Hadley!!

PROGRESS

Our house is looking better and better everyday! (in my opinion, of course!) I can't keep up blogging the pics with our crazy busy life!

Furniture Recycling

Decorating our house on a shoestring budget has been fun, challenging, stressful, and interesting. However, I'm really enjoying developing some new talents and learning some things that if I had an unlimited decorating budget I otherwise wouldn't have learned.



I got these tables at the Kings Christian thrift store for $15 bucks. I was super excited. They aren't really my taste, but we needed some nightstands, and you can't really beat that price. I stained them a dark mahogany.

tables- $15
stain- $4.00
varnish remover- $7.00
labor- me = FREE
polyurethane- FREE (we already had some)

total cost- $26.00 for two nightstands!

Yes, my husband can build cool stuff!

Over Christmas Terry and I worked on our front deck. Terry built it, and I stained it. It's not completely finished in these pics, but it has been raining outside for the last week so this is the best pic I have.

Terry has these hidden talents. He can do stuff like build a deck, run electricity to the house, and play the drums. You think you know a person when you marry them, but I'm just now finding out Terry can do this kind of stuff and we've been married for almost two years!!


These are the only pics I have of the house with the new exterior paint. I wish I had some taken when it was lighter out. MAN! I'm so glad we are rid of the baby blue trim. I LOVE the new color!

I can't wait to spend some summer evenings on the deck with a glass of lemonade and friends!

WIDE LOAD!!

My posts are totally out of order, I KNOW!!



In July, we got our house. It came on a big truck. AND IT WAS SO EXCITING!! When we first got the place it was a big piece of junk. We've done a TON of work and we will be moving in soon. PG&E is coming the second week of February to put in the new power pole, (yeah! we get our very own power pole!) transformer (no, not the kind that mutate and talk and blow things up) and connect power to our meter box.


Here are some pictures of when the house was "delivered." This day was so surreal to Terry and I. The house has gone through a major transformation from when we first got it. I will post more of the "after" pics soon.

TMI- our crapper system

I haven't posted in FOREVER!! We had our septic system installed in August of 2009. For those of you who don't know what a septic system looks like, here's what it entails when you live in the country...

1. Leech lines 2. Septic tank 3. Money


It was pretty cool to watch the guys put this in. They did it ALL in one day. I guess when you have the right tools, machinery, and a team of 5 experienced guys, you can get a lot done in one day. P.S. If you ever need a septic system installed I highly recommend Unruh Backhoe Service.

We got CARPET! Yeeeeaaaah!

We had carpet installed on Saturday. Our house finally is looking pulled together. It's still a work in progress, but WOAH! What a difference the carpet made. Now we need to finish up the bathrooms and laundry room.

Above: The Guest Room (this blue turned out so pretty! It's so relaxing)

Our kitchen had honey oak cabinets. YUCK! I felt like I was in my parents house. We painted them white and put new handles on. Painting cabinets is TREACHEROUS! But... I love, love, love the white. The white cabinets made the kitchen look pulled together, fresh, and ready for some gooood cookin'!

Yeah... you can see we threw all our junk in the laundry room for the picture.... haha

P.S. That fridge was a total tithing blessing. Terry works at Lowe's and we got an $1800 fridge for $750 because it was a returned item. STEAL PEOPLE!! STEAL I SAY!!

Above is our master bedroom, pretty empty right now. Terry did all the trim and installed the closet organizers. SWEET!

Now we need to get the electricity hooked up, the final occupancy certificate and we're good to go! Sound simple? NOT! PG&E has a 6-8 week waiting list... If we're lucky, we might get in by Christmas.

We want to move in so badly. Words cannot describe. We have been working on this house since March, when we first went to go see it. It's been a TON of hard work. But now that it's getting closer to being finished, we feel an immense amount of satisfaction since we've out so much love into our home.

We are making a trip to IKEA for my birthday to buy some furniture and fill up our cute house. Yippee! :)