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Monday, August 17, 2009

Busy weekend

Ok so I finally took some pictures of the house, or so I thought, but now I can't find them so I'll still have to post those another day. We had a fun busy weekend. Our first project we have undertaken on the house is to build shelves for one of the storage rooms. We turned our basement into a wood shop and got started.It started off rather slow as we tried to figure out exactly how we were going to build them. It also took multiple trips to Lowes before we seemed to have everything we needed. This picture turned out kind of funny colored but I had to put in the proof that I was helping too. I was drilling and then screwing the legs together for the shelves. I'm wearing Monty's gun range ear muffs because I decieded I didn't like all the sawing, drilling, and banging noises. I also nailed the shelves into place. I'm not the biggest handi-woman there is so I was pretty proud of myself for operating power tools.
We didn't get the shelves finished but we got a good start. Hopefully now that we know a little more what we're doing it will go a little faster.

After we cleaned up we headed down to Salt Lake to watch Real Salt Lake. Its the major league soccer team here. The weather was great and it was a lot of fun to just go and relax. We played Houston and it ended up being a tie, but hey at least we didn't lose.










It was Leo the Lion's Birthday (he's the mascot) so at half time they had a soccer game with a bunch of the local mascots from several area universities and some of the other sports teams. You can't see real well in the picture but it was rather funny to watch. Plus it was good to see Big Blue again. He's the mascot from Utah State. I think we'll always be Aggies.




Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Sooo much better

Last week a wonderful thing happened. Our blinds finally came in. We went from this...


To this...




It looks so much better than our sheets hanging up and we can now walk around in our underwear. OK so maybe not but it's nice to finally have so privacy. Two of the blinds for the bay window in our kitchen were cut to the wrong size so they had to send those back and we still haven't decided what were going to do for the sliding glass door but that's OK. We have too many outside projects to work on right now. Monty is in the process of building shelves for the storage rooms downstairs (so there's somewhere to put all the food I keep getting such great deals on) and then we have the yard. We're hoping to extend our patio and put the curbing for the flower beds in this month, then it's the sprinkler system, sod, and seeding. I'm actually looking forward to spending some time outside. I haven't done that much lately and can't wait til we have a yard to hang out in.
I promise there will be pictures of the house to come. I just finished working 72 hours in 7 days at the hospital the week after we moved so the house isn't quite put together in a way that is picture worthy yet. That's my goal for this week.