Our House - Downstairs

In our new house, we have a basement :)

I finally had the chance tonight to clean and organize it some, so I took pics!

Our basement is L shaped. 

One side we have the fireplace, couch and rocking chair.

The garage opens to the basement - the door is cropped out, but it is to the right of the couch.

The other side is the ‘boys’ section.

It has toys, a tv and the smaller couch.

This slightly different angle shows two doors on the left.

One is a guest bedroom and one is a 1/2 bath.

So there you go - one area of our house!

I still need to finish my decorating down there,

get rid of the random boxes,

paint and add some stuff to the walls -

but it works for now!

It is super cozy and we are enjoying the SPACE!

Weekend Recap

Well, we officially live at our new home!

To be honest, it’s been a rough couple of days - but we are hanging in.

Here’s a weekend recap for you, starting with Thursday…

We laid low Thursday morning, watching the parade and baking chocolate chip lava cookies.

Then we headed out around 10:30am to our friends, the Chandlers (hence the cc lava cookies - I couldn’t show up empty handed…it’s their favorite!).

We enjoyed a wonderful, relaxing Thanksgiving!

Friday, I’m pretty sure we worked at the house all day.

It’s a blur…but we were either at the house or at the apartment, packing.

Saturday - we moved!

I don’t have much else to say - it was a long, hard day.

But we slept in our new home that night :)

Sunday, we were up early and out the door for church by 8:35am.

While moving, I discovered a bin of winter 2T clothes…overalls and super cute coat for the win!

I snapped these cute pics of Zane at the church, while waiting on Nik and Jaxen. 

After church we headed to Bass Pro Shop to see Santa and play in their Toy Wonderland.

Santa didn’t come until later in the day - so now we have to go back at some point.

But, Jaxen and Zane had the best time seeing the fish, and playing! 

I was able to get this precious picture of Jaxen.

I tried to get one of Zane, and these are what I got…which crack me up :)

Once Zane discovered the “play mud” and trucks…he was one happy little guy!

We left Bass Pro in blizzard conditions and it did not let up until after dark.

And this was Monday morning.

So what do you do when it’s blizzard-like conditions, your husband is at work,

you just moved in to a new house and nothing is unpacked or organized yet?

Decorate for Christmas!

We put this cute little tree up in the boys bedroom.

Well, we decorated it downstairs because that’s where all my stuff was,

and then I carried it upstairs to their bedroom.

Half-way through we found Santa hats and took selfies.

I also put up a tree in our basement for us to enjoy while we are down there.

(Which is most of the time right now, while we are still working upstairs).

 It is not finished by any means…there are maybe 20 ornaments on it,

plus I need to get some stocking hangers, and hide a few cords…

but it’s pretty cozy down there!

The boys found their little nativity and Jaxen was explaining to Zane who everyone was -

it was pretty cute until they started beating up baby Jesus and making the 

sheep knock over all the people like it was a bull instead of a sheep!

 Because of the snow, we had a snow day on Monday 

(well, except Nik - he worked Sunday and Monday).

I was very thankful for the extra time off of work - we got a ton accomplished at the house!

But first, a game of Sorry with Jaxen…at 6:40am.

Who does that?!

The boys did venture outside for a bit…once I pieced together some clothing

(most of our snow gear is packed away).

But they had fun for a while!

 Whew - That was a long post!

I’ll try to post more on the house later this week…once things are a little more together!

Weekend Happenings - House Edition - Part II

In the last post, you saw some of our weekend happenings over at the house, and here’s the rest!

We spent all weekend over there.

And I have to say…the boys did really good in the midst of our “construction zone”. 

We found creative ways they could help, brought some stuff for them to do to 

stay busy and when things started to go south, we let them lay

on a mattress downstairs and watch a show for quiet time each day.

I offered for them to possibly go elsewhere, 

but they just wanted to be at the new house - with us!

They are excited!

Jaxen now knows how to pull up tack board, pull out staples and hammer nails.

Skills for life :)

I brought golf-tees with me Friday night and let them “hammer” them into a box.

 And they played outside - sometimes, without a shirt on!

(Zane got his shirt really wet, and it was too cold for him to have a wet shirt on, 

but he insisted on playing out there anyway - with no shirt).

Yes, that was probably bad parenting - and yes, he will probably get sick this week.

No judgement.

The kid has not had a back yard for over a year! Ha!

Our bedroom got a little love…

it got cleaned up, the place where the chair rail was got mudded, and the closet got painted!

It went from this…

to this!

The closet still needs to be put back together, the new wall needs to be sanded one more time,

the room needs paint, it needs floor laid and then it all needs to be cleaned!

Here is the “before pic”.

And some major work in our living room happened too…

New insulation is in, and sheet rock is almost all up, plus some tape and mud!

Oh, and I cleaned the main bathroom.

Our plan is to move on Saturday!!!

And no…we will not be done with all the work.

We hope to have our bedroom and the boys bedroom completely finished,

as well as all the sheet rock up in the living room.

We can store everything else in the basement while we finish up the living room. 

We need to move Saturday though, so I can get our apartment completely cleaned

and officially moved out by the following Friday.