New Home

Well we are here!   There were so many times over the last few days that I wanted to sit down and share what was going on but...we had no internet.  I can't begin to tell you the frustration we had regarding internet service, the trips elsewhere to 'borrow' internet, and the general frustration that I was living in a tomb, cut off from the world.  That has ended (Glory be!) and we are reconnecting to the living... weather.com anyone?  Oh, how much you've been missed!  
So I need to take a bunch of pictures to truly explain how we are living but I thought first I'd upload a few of the house pre-move in.  Prove that there was indeed very little left ...

This is our Kitchen-notice the plumbing and electrical just waiting for some attention?

The Master Bath, beautiful tub, huge shower, LOTS of work. 

And this is one of the reasons, we love this home.  It's pretty -especially from the outside, I do love it, work and all!

So, more photos soon, I have a great one of my son in the utility sink-his tub for the time being.  And a great story about a $15 shower curtain that nearly was the end of all of us.  Until next time...

Moving Day

So I'm not much of a writer.  I love run-on sentences, comas, and exclamation points, but sometimes the voices thoughts in my head what to come rushing out so I've decided to join the millions of others and toss them into the blog spear.  
Tomorrow we move into our first 'own' home.  Married for 7 years and we have always shared our walls with others.  I must admit I'm thrilled at the idea of all our walls being JUST ours!  This is our 8th move in 7 years!  Crazy huh?  Even crazier, we've been in this apt. for 3 years.  Let me tell you our first few years of marriage were busy.  So, our first real home and what did we do?  Decided that being DIY'ers was our dream come true and bought a house that upon forecloser was stripped of it's interior.  When I say stripped, I mean stripped, they took the cabinets from the kitchen (and appliances), the hot-water heater, the faucets, the vanity's, the sinks, the mantel, the ceiling fixtures, they took the door off the back yard shed, and  even the security lights from outside.  We bought a shell.  But, it's our shell and it has beautiful hardwood floors and more then double the square footage of what we are living in now!  It's going to be great.   So, I'm going to tell you all about it.  When my kids voices are all I can hear and I can't figure out if I should do aqua or apple green for the kitchen, I'm going to come on here and think out-loud for awhile.  Oh, and I'll post pictures...because what fun is a DIY prodject without pictures?  
Blessings!