I did it all by myself

Since the first time we walked through the house, I'm been scheming to put some ceiling fans in. Dare I say, obsessed about it. Every dollar we save I add to my "ceiling fan fund".

We've only lived here a week, but last night was the final straw for sleeping without one. I picked a fan up at home depot this morning and installed it during nap time. Ya, I pretty much rock. I'll sing my own accolades, don't worry :)


Sorry about the blurry photo. Andy was my photographer :)

Long day

In addition to the three hours of crafting, we went on two walks in the hot hot Texas sun. And after the carpet was installed and I was vacuuming up, the kids were running around like crazy, getting to k is the new house. They were totally worn out. This photo was taken at 5pm.

Keeping busy

I had to be at the house while the carpet guys were laying down the new stuff, but with exposed tack strips and glue, I couldn't let the boys run around. We entertained ourselves by playing with and making designs with the scraps of pad and carpet. It was literally three hours worth of crafting with the scraps while we sat on the kitchen floor. What good boys!

The old stuff

Here's a partial view of our old carpet. It was just plain old contractor grade light color carpet. Pretty junky. I'm so glad it's gone and we are starting fresh!

(this is a photo of our first Pizza and Movie night in our new house, the evening we closed)

New carpet

I think one of the reasons we bought a house was so that I could choose carpet and get it installed. What a riot!

Here is one word of advice: Home Depot was a joke. We shopped around and found the same carpet for $2200 less. I am so so pleased with how it turned out.

I'll post some before pictures. Our carpet is a frizé (shag) called Persian Gold. I love it! I can't wait to see how it looks with my pomagranate red leather sofa!

The proud couple

Here we are at the final walk through before signing our lives away.

I bought a new dress (and a new shirt for Kraig) to wear to the closing. Apparently that's not normal practice because a few people chuckled when I told them. But we did look cute in our photos, which was my purpose.

Three cheers for our new house!

Yoked

Well, we did it! We signed our names a thousand times and we are now homeowners!

Isn't it cute?

7/11 day

What do you think? Is Tommy miffed that he didn't get a hot dog to go with his free slurpee?

Joshy turns five

Man, I'm behind. Josh turned five almost a month ago.

Joshua got to have a friend party this year (because it's an odd year birthday) and so we had an Angry Birds theme. Kraig made us a sling shot and the kids had a great time trying to get rid of this pesky green pigs.

Happy birthday to my boy! We love you!

Kraig's new specs

Kraig broke his glasses during church on Sunday. I quickly found some tape so they would survive the remainder of the day, but they were beyond repair when I took the pair to the optometrist this afternoon. So, new frames!

So handsome!

A little morning sunshine--day 29

Day 21--lest we forget

Longest day of the year highlights (sorry no photos):

-sharing my bed at 2:30am with two kids--one with bad dreams, the other cold and moaning

-packing the car AGAIN for another marathon trip

-saying goodbye to the West once again. Hello South, I've missed you.

-six good travelers in the back seats

- no barfing

-laughing my head off in the front seat with Robin driving

-singing along to the muppets with my kids. Something's are truly timeless

-lady at the park yelling at me for telling her kid to stop yelling. Hmmm. Wonder here he gets it?

-the McDonald's poop incident--I wouldn't call it a highlight, I suppose.

- making it back to El Paso in time to run to my favorite jewelry store at the mall

-losing my car in the Dillard's parking lot and freaking out because it had been stolen. Again, not so much a highlight. But why are there two shoe departments at the store and how is a person supposed to keep them straight?

-one day closer to seeing my sweetheart.

Today is our last day of vacation. Whoot! Whoot! I will be sleeping in my own temperpedic bed tomorrow night! I can hardly sleep, I'm so excited!

The actual 14er--day 19

So I did make it to the top of a mountain in Colorado with an elevation greater than 14,000 feet above see level (a 14er, for anyone who doesn't speak native coloradoian).

We drove to Mount Evans today, the highest paved road in north America. This picture was in the parking lot; we proceeded to climb a few hundred additional feet to the summit--around 14300, I think.

So ya, I climbed a 14er while I was here.

Day 18

I decided to hike a few 14ers while I was in Colorado this week:) I'm amazing, I know. Actually, this map of Colorado is at a new park near my parents' house. It had an awesome spray park and an even more awesome treehouse play ground.

The favorite feature of the kids was the cement slide right by the entrance. They would run though the water, get completely soaked and then slide down the cement slide like otters. Pretty fun. Until we realized that they had each shredded the seat of his/her pants. Boo.

Day 11

We are having a great time in our vacation! We went boating with the Webbs today and had great water. I have a lot of photos to share, but here is Andy's first ever kneeboarding run. So proud of him!