Showing posts with label fixitup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fixitup. Show all posts

Monday, October 28, 2013

Wonderful weekends (moving, yard work, and pumpkin bars)

Good morning and happy Monday! Hope your weekend was a good one, we enjoyed ours, but as always, it ended to quickly. I am looking forward to Veteran's Day (nov. 11) because I get that day off as a paid holiday... a long weekend? I'll take it! Anyways, on with our past weekend.
Friday evening we went to Kentucky to watch Bradley's football game. They were ahead the first half, but things went down hill in the second half, wish they could have won, but they played great. We also got to visit with my grandparents for a little bit before the game which was nice. After the game we headed back to our house.
Saturday morning I was determined I was going to sleep in at least until 9:00am. After sleeping a little bit, we went to our old house to get the last things out. We got everything out and finished cleaning. Then we got ready and went to a fall festival with some kiddos from church. It was a fun evening and it was great to see lots of our friends that we don't always see.
Sunday was a normal Sunday, church, home, and church again. It's nice that we are in walking distance to church... since Preston needs to go earlier, he can get up and go and I can sleep a little longer (can you tell I love sleep on the weekends?) and then go without having to worry about extra gas being used. Sunday morning I was super excited because I was having a good hair day, my hair is always flat and I never have volume, so when I had a little bit, I was ecstatic... it was a fabulous start to tthe day. After church we walked back to our house and had a quick lunch and then went to our old house. I had planted some roses earlier in the year and I wanted to move some of them to our new house since they have been doing well. We dug them up and then got them to our new house and dug holes and replanted them. I really like where they are and I can't wait to see them once they bloom again (since I haven't been at the place they were at they were a bit neglected, but I'm sure they'll be okay). After getting cleaned back up it was back to church. After the evening service we went back to the old house and put up the owner's decorations that we had boxed away why we lived there. We are completely done with that house now and there won't be anymore trips back and forth, can you hear the angels singing?! Hallelujah!! We ended the evening with some pumpkin bars I made with cream cheese frosting and a little bit of "Hocus Pocus".
And now for some pictures from our weekend:

Well, that brings us to this morning, it's a gloomy rainy day.. I'm hoping it gets a little bit nicer outside, we are buildind a flower box this evening! A post on that is in the near future, so check back!
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

House Bucket List

Hey readers!
Remember me telling you about us moving to a new [to us] house? Well, this past weekend (sorry I haven't got a weekend post up)we started staying in our new house. We have most things put away, but there are a few boxes that still need to be unpacked and we need to organize our storage room. Right now totes are just stacked in there and I want to label them better and organize them by season/category. Anyways,I want to create a bucket list of things for our house... okay, so maybe it's not a bucket list but more like a to-do list. Some of these things are short term, some may be more long term. I'm sure I will revisit this list in the future to add and cross things off.
So here we go, a room by room list of to-dos....

Kitchen
-peel wallpaper above cabinets and paint where paper was
- hang coffee sign on wall

Storage room
-Organize tote boxes by category
-Make "other" room into craft area
-Organize craft materials

Hall bathroom
-paint walls
-Change mirror above vanity
-Change floor

Living Room
-Hang mirror on wall
-create TV stand from old dresser
-Purchase a bigger area rug
-Change light switches and cover plates

Entry way/Foyer
-Put small table by front wall
-organize bookshelf beside desk
-add rug

Master Bedroom
-Purchase rug for the end of the bed

Guest Bedroom
-Purchase new mattress
-Purchase new bedding

Dining room
-make table runner

OUTSIDE
-make raised flower box
-plant bulbs into existing flower bed
-make grass area by sidewalk into flower bed
-Get rid of bushes in front of house and landscape
-pressure wash front porch and swing
-pressure wash sides of house
-destroy hornet nest in front tree (!! Winter !!)

I'm sure that is not everything that we need to do, but as you can see, we have enough to keep us busy and get us started on making our house our home...
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