Showing posts with label house renovation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label house renovation. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

so its my day off…


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And I have so much shiz to do today such as:

  1. get off the computer and get breakfast (yes get because we have no food.)
  2. go to the postal office and change our address.
  3. unpack the kitchen, living room, bathroom, bedrooms
  4. move the furniture in the proper places
  5. hang pictures
  6. bring all the little things left at the apartment
  7. clean the crap out of it (seriously my apartment is gross)
  8. take Wyatt to the dentist
  9. upload all the pictures on my camera
  10. edit/blog them
  11. blog
  12. blog oh I miss you
  13. blog
  14. hang the shower curtains
  15. take a nap because man I am so tired just writing this list.

(9-13 I doubt I’ll get to do. boo! those are the only ones I want to do.)

Monday, August 6, 2012

Bed less


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                                             (me age 18)                                                                                                     (Wyatt sleeping in box he was afraid I’d leave him.)


Right now, I am sitting in my new house bed less and surrounded by boxes. Cody’s in his new recliner reading the newspaper, I just got done reading blogs on the newly connected internet connection and Wyatt is asleep in a teepee that we set up in the living room.

Its quite, a nice quite. The kind of quite that makes you feel completely comfortable. The quite were all you start to hear are the crickets chirp, the air conditioner blow and the quite turning of the newspaper.

I am home. 

This place doesn’t feel odd, different or scary like it did when I moved out at 18. It doesn’t feel complex, nervous or anxious like it did after Cody moved in.

It just feels like home. A completely comfortable home. Our completely comfortable home.

As I write these words the room darkens, Cody kisses me then quickly nods off on the couch leaving me to bask in the quite this excellent quite the “we are finally home” quite.

Because man, are we finally home.

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Today my day starts at 4am

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Yeah, Wyatt thinks its pretty funny that my day starts at 4am. Well I don't jerk! I went to bed early last night which I hate because I like my time to do whatever when the kid falls asleep cause that's the only time I ever get with out having someone saying mom mom mom mooooooooooooooooom at me every two seconds. Its bliss.

Then I got to wake up bright and early this morning (yay!) so I can head to work to do inventory. Which if you’ve ever done retail inventory yeah, it sucks balls. (that's my new favorite saying lately eeek sorry.) Then I get to leave early (like 10ish) from work so I can head to my sisters wedding (which btw who gets married on a Wednesday.) Which I am excited about because its not in a church gym like most Utah weddings so it should be a good one. So be prepared to see a lot of instagram photos of it. 

It will be a long day I doubt I'll get a nap and then guess what I get to do tomorrow!?

Work plus Pack/move again!!

YAY!! (that  sucks balls too. ugh.)

Happy first day of August everyone!

(Yes, I am still packing/moving and yes we have not slept in the new house yet. We currently are waiting for our closets to be done, to have bath curtains and our TV to be set up. We can not live with out those things. Seriously, those words have come out of our mouths. Plus if I move in I have to unpack the kitchen which means I’d have to cook which leads to doing dishes so I'm milking it for as long as I can. wouldn't you?)

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Progress.

Today I thought I would share with you guys some before and after photos of our house. It has been a long hard road (mostly for our uncle THANK YOU for all the work you’ve done. seriously, you are pretty amazing!)  to get our house looking good.

Can I just tell you that I am in love, IN LOVE with my kitchen. I can see my self spending a lot of time in here not only cooking but just enjoying it.

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The changes we did to the living room make it sooo much bigger and I also love the main bathroom plus I love that we now have a bathroom in our room.  awwwwwwe.after

Oh gosh while I was looking back at those awful before shots of the house it made me cringe at the thought of the people who had to live in it. Man, did it need a redo. bad.

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Okay Seriously, people just look at my kitchen again. Isn't it amazing! I am soooo glad we painted it orange and I am glad that I am not stuck with the old one. I would have died. seriously it was bad.

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I will take more photos to show the rest of it soon maybe I'll do a video tour.

Monday, July 23, 2012

Boxes have been moved in.


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Omg, people. We have carpet, which means we started moving boxes in. But lets not get too excited because we wont be in “in” for a few more weeks (or another month) We have until Sept 1 to get out of our apartment So my plan is to start doing one room at a time. Pack and then unpack and put it all away.

We will see if that's going to work but for now that's the plan I got. Tomorrow the kitchen will be pack and ready to be moved in. Unless it gets interrupted because if you live in Utah you know its Pioneer day which means parades bbqs and fireworks which we are going to do 100% (since our fourth was not really that exciting.) I just hope that I get my packing act together to get this plan a rollin’

Can you believe its move in time!?! Yeah, me either.

Saturday, July 7, 2012

I should be packing.

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Our vacations have been taken, worked has been worked but all the boxes are still unpacked, junk has yet to be gone through and I cant seem to get my self to start packing and our move in day is near so near that stress levels have risen.newhome14newhome10

Its too overwhelming. I don't know what I want to keep, what I want to give away, what I want to sell. I just sit and stare at the boxes. Then I stare at our junk.

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I think of how all I want to do is throw it all out. Start completely over. The junk we have has been ours for 7 years. It doesn't match, its not the cool antiques that you want to keep. Its nothing I’d want to pass down to Wyatt when he is older. It is all junk.

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Broken McDonald's toys, frames that house old pictures, card board star war cut outs that the husband saved from his work.

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Old books that I have never read, DVD movies that are still in the plastic wrapper and a ton of CDs. Couches that don't match, book shelves that are broken and a table that the legs are completely chewed on by Cody’s brother’s dog.

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I moved out when I was 18 took nothing but my teenage crap which then led into marriage crap when Cody moved in with me after we got married. I want to start over where my things matter. Where when I am old Wyatt will want to take some of it with him because it reminds him of home.

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I want a fresh new start, a start that doesn't began with all my old junk.

Monday, June 11, 2012

Its getting closer to MOVE IN time…

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So since its getting closer to the move in time, I thought I’d share some ideas that I have found that I want to try out in my new house…

Man I'm excited that its almost time for me to design and decorate our house. I finally get to be useful and not just sit and watch the men build.

I am starting to dream about it now. Dream where I want things… sigh, I'm excited. Eeee!! Does anyone know some good design blogs? I would love to find more things to be inspired by.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

So many details…


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I never knew how many little details there would be when picking out what we like for where. what kind of light do we like, what color should this be, is it going to match this… etc. etc. and as we get closer and closer to finishing the house everything is starting to pull together and it is freaking me out.

I'm getting so overwhelmed with the decisions we need to make plus I am realizing that I have a ton of crap that needs to be packed. I am going to have to sort through 5 years of random crap and decide what to keep and what to sell. At this point, I want to throw it all out and start completely over.


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