Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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Our house is coming along... one room at a time. We never thought we'd find ourselves visiting Home Depot and Lowe's so many times!!! (at least Home Depot has fun carts!!) Ryan and the girls race all around the store and out to the car!


We have been very busy inside the house- UPDATING. {since nobody has lived in the house for a few years it is in need of a paint job and fixture updates} But those pics will come later!! I will try and take some "after" pictures tomorrow.
For now those of you who are going crazy here is the front outside of the house. Ryan trimmed up the landscaping, replaced the lights, added a storm door, and repainted our front door black. He also put in new mailboxes for us and our neighbor- since theirs is in our yard.
Off to bed... we've got lots more to do tomorrow!! We are hoping to get the hallway, 1/2 bath and possibly the formal dining room/living room painted and fixtures switched out in the bathroom. Okay, that is a lot when I typed it all out... we'll see! Good night!

Monday, August 18, 2008

Move over Nate

Nate Berkus has nothin' on these two design girls! We stormed Bed Bath and Beyond yesterday... Hallie and Reese knew just what they wanted for their room! I will post more after we get it done! {Today we are hoping to finish up work in the front of the house}
(Reese wasn't going for the Paparazzi!!)

Taking a break

Thursday and Friday we got to take a break from the unpacking and go back to the Quad Cities for our closing (and cleaning the old house) and some tourist stuff :) We met Patty, Jessie and Levi in Iowa City for a stop at the Children's Museum. The kids had a great time, as always!



Hallie took in one LAST t-ball game. She will really miss that! She loved playing.

We stopped by the John Deere commons, since we had never been. The girls had fun driving tractors, but it wasn't as big of a place as I always thought...
On our way out we stopped by Scrapaganza for the new Making Memories Halloween-- SO CUTE! and some Papa Murphy's cooke dough for the road :)