House pictures!

I sure hope you'll excuse me for taking so long to get these up here for your viewing pleasure. See, we didn't have internet for the first week, and then when that was set up, our office was not clean enough to set up the computer. So for a couple days we sat on the floor with our old laptop, but I can't get pictures on to that one anymore because the USB ports are broken. And then (yes, more excuses - but all valid) the laptop died. :( A few more days pass, and we finally get everything out of the office and in to the garage, and Kyle was able to get our computer set up yesterday. So, now I can give you pictures. Of course, I took these a week ago, so the house doesn't look like this at all anymore! The last couple pictures I just took, and those are the big changes. Oh, and please excuse the 'snapshot-esque' picture quality. Definitely not home magazine photos here.

Below is the living room and dining room. (and the cat being bad and scratching the couch) You'll notice the tan couch, blue recliner, and off to the left is the big banana yellow couch. The banana couch, by the way, fell out of the truck on the way over here because the guys didn't think they needed to tie it down. After all, it's a couch; where's a couch gunna go? Well, it went into the middle of Lemoore and D street, that's where! Anyway, I hated that the furniture didn't match, so now we have slip covers. :)

Kitchen looks pretty much the same as it did before, except for the big, wonderful, expensive fridge.

This is the office. It's now all cleaned up, and our computer is no longer in pieces on the floor. We have an entertainment center across from the desk, and a little work out area in the corner.

The garage still pretty much looks like this! It's all pushed to one side now, but there's still a ton of stuff to go through.

Spare bedroom is all set up and ready to go for visitors!

Our bedroom is below. Please excuse the un-made bed. Everything in there is now cleaned up and nice and pretty. No more boxes on the ground, thankfully!

And now some of the changes since those other pictures were taken. We now have two brown couches and a flax recliner! I love matching furniture. We just got them the other day, and they're a little big, so we're still fighting with them and having to re-tuck them in all the time until we're able to get those things you can slip down between the cushions to hold the cover in place. Whatever those things are called!

And the first painting we've (actually, I've) done is in the kitchen. I finally have my red wall in my kitchen. All the other walls will be white, and the cabinets will be black. I'm two coats down on the red, and we'll see how many it takes total. At least one more, I know that much.

So, there you go! Things are coming along nicely, just slowly. We hardly have any time with work and church obligations and going to my students volleyball and football games.

I hope you all had a great week, and I hope this week will be another good one!

We're Moved!

Well, it's all in. It's a mess, and there are boxes and bags everywhere, but it's all moved over. It's going to take forever to get things in their place, but once things start coming together a little more I will post some pictures for you guys!

Big move tomorrow!

So I'm counting down the hours until we get a call telling us to come pick up the keys to our own home! It's crazy. Crazy, crazy, crazy. I can't quite wrap my mind around the fact that we are now the proud owners of a mortgage. You thought I was going to say house, didn't you! :)

Tonight is my last night on Powell Ave. And that is a wonderful, wonderful thought. There is still so much to do around the apartment, though, and that is not a good thought. I've done pretty much all the packing and prep, so I'm looking forward to having some help. It's not that Kyle hasn't been avoiding packing and helping, he just hasn't had too much time. Okay, there's also some avoidance. I'm going to be up extremely late tonight getting more stuff done, and I just have to hope it's enough. My parents are coming down tomorrow, and we'll have their help and Kyle's parents on Saturday, so hopefully everything will get done in a timely manner.

Okay... back to cleaning and packing. We'll be without Internet for a bit, but I'll try to at least check your posts at work until everything is set up at the new place.