Our Home Adventures

Since we moved into our house, we've worked really hard to make it our home. In the first weekend of closing on the house, we had the WHOLE thing painted, Friday & Saturday...with the help of some awesome friends & family, that was actually accomplished! (My husband was very DRIVEN to do it)! Only the kitchen and guest bath were painted, every other room was flat white paint! We wanted to change it before moving in! Here are some before, in the process, and after pictures!

bathroom before 

living room (view from the foyer) before previous owner moved

dining room before the previous owner moved

kitchen (already painted-we liked the color)

dining room (primer first)

Master bath in the process

Spare room

Spare room 

dining room  

living room

foyer 

foyer/front door

living room

living room

Here are some outdoor changes/additions. We didn't build the fence, we were blessed to have someone else come build it. However, we did do the yardwork, 1 week after moving in...before and after pictures are below. I think after this, yardwork and painting are my 2 LEAST favorite house chores, even more than folding laundry and emptying the dishwasher! 

Fence up!

Grill....yum...not much work here--until we started cooking...by we, I mean, my husband!

front yard flower bed BEFORE

and the front yard AFTER!!!!!

Now some decorating pictures (a couple were shown in a previous blog, sorry for the repeat)

Dining room

Dining room

Living room

Hallway-Jim Harrison autographed phot

hallways

hallway 

spare bathroom (also already painted, we liked it and left it)

spare bathroom (honestly might be my favorite :) love the colors and curtain)

spare room

spare room

kitchen

kitchen 

kitchen

kitchen table (our first)

  

entry to garage/laundry room

entry to garage/laundry room

upstairs (not much up there, bookshelves, dog crates, desk, and treadmill)

upstairs

spare room decorations (finally up)

We worked so hard in the first few weeks of moving in to do almost everything....so we got a little lazy after that.  But back to it, and finished (with as much as we can do---that money will allow-haha)

More updates as they happen!!! 

July 4th: Oliver Tradition Adventures

Happy 4th of July!! I hope everyone had a great one!!! As each year since I met Andrew, his family throws a big shin-dig for the 4th!! The family goes to his grandma's house, who lives on the lake (yahoo)!! Unfortunately this year quite a few people weren't able to make it :-/ but we still had a great time. It's a lot of fun to spend time with them. We started the day by eating some great homecooked BBQ and ribs!!! And then my sister in law and I went out on the lake, floating ...needless to say, even with my attempts to prevent it and layers of sunscreen, I still came out a little crispy.

And one of my favorite things we do at his grandma's house, we played Mexican Train Dominoes on the screened in porch. If you haven't played, like I hadn't until I visited them, but it is one of my favorites!!! Andrew's mom, sister, grandma, and I played quite a few rounds off and on throughout the day. During this time Andrew was fishing and helping everyone fix their technology problems, as always.

We ended the night with some fireworks off the dock and long trip home, need less to say, we were blasting music and Andrew was drinking Mountain Dew to stay awake until we arrived back home :) All in all, it was a fun 4th with great family!! Hope everyone else enjoyed their 4th!!

And by the way, no pictures, completely had so much fun I forgot!