Demolition: Day 1

Just wanted to give you a quick rundown of how our evening of demo went...

We found this fancy wallpaper underneath!

Love Haley's "this is sick" face!

Yes, my brilliant husband busted through that with his head...he has a knot on his forehead to prove it.

Looking from Guest Room to Bathroom

Guest Bedroom

Nathan & Kyle knocking down the ceilings

And our evening ended here considering we were all choking, coughing and couldn't breath.

Please excuse my unedited, rough photos and post.

I think I may have inhaled a bit too much this evening and it is time for bed.

We have a long day of cleanup ahead of us tomorrow.

Goodnight!

We are Homeowners!

It's official---we finally closed on the house!
Let the work begin and let the volunteers arrive...ahem, I mean workers.

We are now at 59 days until we have to legally be residing in the house.
If you think that's no big deal I would encourage you to go refresh your memory of what we just bought here.

Progress Report:
Utilities are turned on.
Budget Rolloff will be there tomorrow.
Releveling of the house will begin @ noon tomorrow.
Meyer's Roofing service will begin after work on Friday.

Here we go!
Wish us luck...or bring us dinner ;)

A Very Happy Valentine's Indeed!

What is this you ask?

Well folks, the wonderful lens featured above is the Valentine's gift that my amazing husband got for me!

(I guess he took a little hint from the constant prodding of my sisters and Mom)

Yes, he is a wonderful---mainly for putting up with me & all the women in my family!

I can't wait to start practicing with it! Let me know if you would like to be my guinea pig to practice on---I'm always looking for willing subjects to shoot!

Ok, I am done with all my gushy bragging on my husband and I will get to the point.

We are closing on the house tomorrow.
Hopefully.
At 9:30 a.m.
If they don't push it back again like the last 5 times.
But they won't give us the keys until Wednesday.
Because they are screwy and this process has taken FOREVER.
So hopefully.
I won't hold my breath though.
But I will keep you posted.

A Happy Valentine's, maybe?!?

My husband hates Valentine's Day with a passion.

I'm pretty sure he feels like it is a setup for every man to get in trouble year after year...

His thought is, "If I'm going to be nice to you why does it have to be on a specific day?!"

I love the man but he has never been one for sentimental things... He's a man's man that grew up with lots of man's men so needless to say I have learned to excuse it and honestly, I find his dislike for it it all quite comical!

I mean the first year we were dating he gave me chocolates and the movie "Just Friends". Should I have taken a hint??

When we were dating he joking told me he "was planning to set the bar really low so that when he did something sweet I would think he was the most wonderful thing ever."
....And it worked!

Unfortunately, I was not too bright and have spoiled him from day one!

Last year we tried the "don't do anything for me because we are poor college students bit" while we were both secretly worried that the other would do something. As always, I cheated and bought him something and in turn got nothing because I had come up with the stupid idea to do nothing when in all reality I think I simply wanted him to acknowledge that it was Valentine's.

After this saga I now understand why men think we are crazy and can never understand us!

This year for Valentine's I told him not to do anything for me again...
Immediately he put his guard up and wanted to know what kind of sick game I was playing as he began having flashbacks to last year.

I have been telling him the best gift he could give me are the keys to our new house!

If all goes as planned we really might get to close on Monday!

And if he really wants to buy me something I told him I wanted this new lens for my camera...