What You Missed While I Was Gone.

I might have jumped off the proverbial blogger cliff, but I didn't stop for a second in the real world. So here are a few things you may have missed while I was gone.

I alluded to outdoor change in this blog post, but never got around to telling you what we did.
We bought retaining wall bricks or stones (what-ev) and we Adam dug around the tree in our front yard and stacked 'em up. Looks ten times better, never mind the fact that we ran out of money steam and didn't complete the backside of the tree mound. From the front it looks AWESOME. Yeah. pretty exciting stuff. So exciting in fact that we decided to do the same thing to the front (in front of the basement windows) and around our walkway to the front door.
This will have to come next year I think.. we've already moved on. Darn that ADD!  Can't see anything through to fruition. (I think that might have been written on a report card once in my life..I had a bit of deja vu writing that last sentence.)

Before (when we first saw the house): 

Adam working hard on the project:

                                           

The AWESOME After: 

 Yep. There you have it. We've done a few more things around the house while I was gone. I have to update you on that later. More to come!

It Begins!

BRIGHT LITTLE HOUSE

Well, house obsession has officially started. After months of house hunting we finally found the one and while we aren't official owners until next week, we have already spent days sneaking over and day dreaming. We can't wait to sign our names and be handed our very FIRST set of keys!

Our little casa is quite the charmer if you can look past her disrepair. Unfortunately her previous owners (who also happen to be the original owners) had left her abandoned for two years. According to the neighbors his wife had been in charge of this house while they lived in another state for the past few years and then when she died he had just left the house. Boy does Little House need our help! The basement has had apparent flooding (and mold) and the back yard is a rainforest just to name a few things. Poor Adam had quite an adventurous couple days as he went about trying to carve a slice of trail through the weeds just to take photos and find out more about the state of her (the house).

Here is Adam hacking away...

Here is our first meeting of Little House, and her jungle- I mean backyard: Don't mind the date, it's wrong, our camera somtimes refuses to work right.

The Backyard!

Well, wish us luck! We have a long journey ahead of us as we try to make a house a home.

It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts to build a home. -Unknown

Home where our feet may leave, but not our hearts.- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.