5.27.2009

Moving day!

Can you believe it...it's almost here.

For those of you who wanted to come help and are just waiting for me to get the times up...this for you ....all other can skip this post!

Thursday 6pm, load truck.

Friday about noon, un-load truck at new house.

Sorry it's all weird times...that's what happens on a three day weekend and people want to take a vacation rather than finish your loan!

Thanks!

5.22.2009

The new house

Drum roll please...

Here are the pictures of the house we are buying...unfortunately my camera sucks so I only got a few pictures of the main floor. So sorry there isn't much else. For security reasons I'm not going to post a picture of the entire front of the house, nor am I going to post the address or city. But enjoy what you can...I know we are so very excited for us!

First lets start off with the stats:

5 Bedrooms
4 Bathrooms (2 full baths, and 2 three-quarter baths)
3200 Sq Feet and 100% finished.
.19 Acres, huge trees, a few garden boxes and enough space for our tramp
Laundry room with a counter to fold clothes on (hopefully they will be folded faster!)
Master Bedroom has a Master Bath (WaHoo!)
Full kitchen downstairs


This is a picture of the front lawn taken from my car...I was feeling silly taking pictures so I was trying to hide! Ü
On the way up to the front door, I noticed not only was this lawn well manicured but the entire neighborhood is like that. Darn, it looks like I've got to be better about pulling my weeds!
There is a front patio!!!? I've never seen one, but okay. If I want to lounge where all my neighbors can see me...this is where I would do that!How did this picture get in here? This is Rusty running away from mommy while trying to nab him for his bath! I'm standing on the stairs looking down at the front entrance.
From the entrance looking over into the formal living room. (yeah, we won't have furniture in here for a year or so...except the piano!) Looking from the living room into the kithen.
Yea, there is a bar...although we probably won't have bar stools for a while! ☻ Looking the other direction at the kitchen.
You can see the upstairs hallway from here! I love all the open space and the nooks and cranny's! Although I don't have much to fill them up with....yet! ☺ The only shot I got of the family room. Look it has a fireplace...Santa won't have to use the magic key to get in our house anymore, he can go the old fashion way! Back yard. Yes, it's TINY. Especially since our lot now is HUGE! But it will be enough to still have fun in! Oh and thanks to our appraiser for this photo!

Well, there you have it! Our soon-to-be new home! You'll have to come visit us sometime so you can see the rest of the house. Ü

So...what do you think?


BTW, we are speaking in church this Sunday if anyone wants to come. My family is also going to sing a song!

After picture


Well I got a picture of the kids! This is for the picture of our family...but, there was no one to hold the camera so we couldn't get one of the whole family!


Sounds like we should be moving Thurday night-Friday morning and afternoon. If anyone wants to come help you're welcome to! ☻


5.19.2009

Crab Shack: Before and After

So before I post pictures of the new house we're moving to, I decided I'm going to post pictures of our current home. I'm very proud of how far this little house has come. Because it was a little HUD home in horrible shape and in much need of a lot of TLC. It was also the biggest house we could find for the amount we could afford! First off I'm going to give it's stats:

3bedrooms
1bathroom (plumming for 2nd bathroom was turned into a laundry room)
1510 Sq Feet
.27 acres (the reason we bought this house!)
1 Carport

The dinning area: This picture was taken almost exactly 4 years ago. (We invited family to come check out the house. )

Before:
After:The kitchen: We had to replace ALL the appliances. The Dishwasher, oven/stove, range hood, and fridge. Luckily for us my amazing sister Yvonne was about to buy a new fridge so she said we could have her old one. My mom had an extra dishwasher in her garage and my sister Verlene and mom bought us a new range...of course by that time it had to be a black one! Whew, talk about family support! BTW We've also replaced all the electrical outlets, furnace, water heater, windows, doors and bought AC as well!

Before:After:Bathroom: Okay this was nasty. But all it took was some very powerful chemicals and some elbow greese! Then eventually a new floor and some paint!

Before:
After: ☻ Baby's room: This is the only bedroom I decided to show you. This email is LONG enough without showing you all the changes the poor house went through! This was baby Wesley's room...now it's baby Rusty's!

Before: After:The Toy Room: The weird window thing and ugly wood. My sister Yvonne also helped us pay for and paint the entire house.

Before: After:
The Garden: It was a mound of dirt and overgrown weeds.

Before:After:
The back of the house: ...and cute little Emily.

Before: After: Backyard: The grass wasn't really grass. You know when you go camping and some of the forest floor is green and grassy?...well that's what it was! We also ended up taking 3 trees and 7 stumps out of our yard!

Before: After:The house: I don't know if you can tell but the roof was beyond repair. We had to tear off three layers of shingles and re-roof the entire house. Thanks to my entire family especailly my big brother who spent many, many hours on top of our roof in record breaking heat. In fact he was kind enough to show me his sunburn the next day...if you can imagine where you might get a sunburn while your bending over all day long! Ü BTW see Shawn...WHITE trim! Ha! The zebra house! With turquoise doors!?

Before: Before: After:The Tree Stumps! Two big tree stumps in the front yard was a hit with the kids. Everyone wanted to stand on it and be queen or king!

Before:After:

Our family: Josh was 3 years old, Emily was 21 months and Wes was almost 5 months old when we bought this house.
Sorry no after picture. maybe I'll post one later
{Good-bye house, you will be missed...sort-of!}
So far the word is the loan on this house is good to go and will close next week. I assume our loan will go through just fine and will also be ready to close sometime next week. We're just hoping that it works out that we are not out of a house for a day or two! ☻
Stay tuned for pictures of our new house.

Memorial Day Program

It's that time of year again, to honor those we love and lost. My (most amazing, super dad, great guy) BIL puts on a wonderful memorial day program every year at his cemetery up in Ogden. He has asked Shawn to come sing in the program. I wanted to invite anyone who wants to attend this...its free.
Sunday, May 24th
100 Monre Blvd.
Ogden, UT
at 6:00 pm
Shawn will be singing "If You're Reading This" (originally sung by Tim McGraw)-yes, he will be singing a COUNTRY song! ☻

Hope to see you there.



5.17.2009

Summer time!

Bring it!
Gotta have fun in the back yard while we have one so big!






It's a great way to water your grass too!

5.15.2009

Boxes


Kids getting all packed up ready to move to the new house!


If anyone has any extra moving boxes, we'll take them off your hands!