Yard Work – Round 3

Progress has been made on the yard!  Here are the most recent pictures.  Brick work has been done on the fire pit and planters, plus the whole yard has been leveled.  We’re getting closer to being done!

 

Close up on the fire pit.

Close up on a planter.

   

What’s in this picture…

That is not in this picture?

Taking a break.

My family stopped by…so we put my dad to work!

  

All the dirt that was removed in the leveling process.

Diesel and I stayed inside and supervised the whole process. (P.S.  He’s not usually allowed on the couch, but he sneaked up there…so I had to take a picture!)

CSN Stores and Yard Work – Round 2

If you’re a long time reader of my blog you’ll remember that in the past CSN Stores has allowed me to do a giveaway.  Well, they have recently offered me the opportunity to review a product.  Awesome!  But what should I pick?  They have a TON of products on their website from dinnerware sets, to dog supplies to even garden decorations (this could come in handy with all the yard work we’re doing!). 

CSN has a variety of products at a variety of prices and I’m looking forward to doing a product review.  Stay tuned to see what I select!

So, Jeremy and I went on a little vacation last week to Las Vegas (post/recap to come soon), which is why there hasn’t been anymore yard work until this weekend.  Funny story: apparently, I’m a space cadet because when we checked out of our hotel I left our camera in the hotel room.  Well, actually, not just our camera, but also my laptop.  Well, to be honest, not just our camera and my laptop, but 4 books as well (2 which belong to the library!).  I left this all in my backpack.  On the opposite side of the bed, where I couldn’t see it.  Dumb, right?  Thankfully though I remember about an hour away from the hotel!  We called them and agreed to ship it to us, so our camera (and other items) came back into our possession yesterday, just in time so I could take pictures of the yard!

The brick work is being done this weekend.  So, projects include: raising our brick fence, building 3 planters, building the fire pit and building the step into the lower portion of the yard.  Here is the progress:

Jeremy searching for stuff in the garage.

Working on the step.

Fire pit construction.

 

Weather tent.  Last time the yard was worked on it was a million degrees out.  This weekend, it’s rained everyday.  Go figure.

Diesel likes to help out too!

Yard Work – Round 1

We started working on the yard this past weekend!  Well actually, Jeremy and his dad started working on the yard, while I stayed inside away from the dirt and sweat. :)  So far, the gate has been replaced, the rocks have been removed, the drainage system has been put into place and a few other things have been done…but I don’t remember what.  Here are pictures of the progress:

 

New gate!  Oooh.  Aaah.

 

Shoveling rock.

  

That’s a lot of rock to shovel.

Diesel helped too.

Almost finished.

The rocks are all gone, so Diesel ran around up and down the yard, in the dirt, like a crazy dog!

Stay tuned for our continued progress…

Home Improvement

Home Improvement was a great show, wasn’t it?  My family used to watch it all the time.  Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor and Al Borland were always doing something funny!  You don’t find too many family shows like that anymore.  How sad.  But enough about the show, let’s talk about our home improvements.

Jeremy’s parents came out to visit us about 2 weekends ago, and his dad stayed a week longer to help with some improvements to the house.  The main things they did were: cabinet/drawer handles in the kitchen, lights in our backyard, new lights near our front door, built in soap dispenser in the kitchen, and sealed/painted the garage floor.  I sure they did some other small things, but those are the basics.  Here are the pictures!

  

Kitchen handles.

Garage floor.

One of our new light fixtures.

Soap dispenser and disposal button.

The Big Move!

Hello to my six readers out there!  Did you miss you me?  I've missed you!  In fact, I've missed the Internet in general.  Does anyone else feel completely out of touch when they don't have Internet access?  Seriously, if I had to go any longer without it, I may have gotten the shakes.  Anyway, the reason I haven't had Internet access is because we FINALLY MOVED into our NEW HOUSE this weekend!  YAY! 

Last Saturday was the big day and we were very productive.  Throughout the week, Jeremy and his dad took boxes and little things over the house and then on Saturday, we rented a U-Haul and packed up the rest.  I got to the house at 7am on Saturday, in order to let the carpet guys in...they were supposed to finish the carpet on Friday night, but they had to come back on Saturday morning for a few hours.  Oh well, what can ya do?  I organized the kitchen for a bit, while Jerm and the gang packed up the furniture and remaining items from the old house.  By "gang" I mean: Jerm's dad, my mom, my dad, Jared D., Jared M. and Paul.  They arrived at the NEW HOUSE around 10am and we started unloading.  It was great having the "guys" there to help (thanks you guys!) because we (a) have a lot of heavy furniture, (b) have a staircase that isn't the easiest to maneuver a couch through, and (c) have two "old" (and I mean that in the nicest way) dads who should be lifting heavy stuff!  With the teamwork of everyone, we were all unloaded in about 1 1/2 hours!  Amazing!

Unloading.

Jerm and one of the Jareds.

Just painted walls + hard to maneuver staircase + dresser = SCARY!

These pictures crack me up...just how many people does it take to get the couch upstairs?  Apparently, 5!

The rest of the day was spent putting together furniture, breaking for lunch (yum, In-N-Out animal style cheeseburger!), making another trip back to the old house (thanks to Jake and Kayla for stopping by to help us,  in between work and signing your docs), and unpacking all our stuff.  Why is it that you never realize how much crap you have until you move?  Seriously, I didn't know that we had half of the junk that came into our NEW HOUSE.  Our "good will" box is growing more each day with random items that don't need. 

The day ended with my parents departing back to Scottsdale, all of us being exhausted and per the request of my mom and father-in-law...with Jeremy carrying me over the threshold. (insert cheesy "awww" right here!)