Our First House Guests

This week nothing happened, except the plumbing arrived in the mail (and has yet to be opened), and the "practice period" of our security system in which we are unmonitored ended. The real fun was this weekend.

This weekend we had our first house guests, which forced us to get our butts in gear with all the boxes. The plan was simple:  put together the bed, set up the bedroom, and move all the boxes out of the living room. And it was a success! Our guests had a place to sleep...

And alas our living room isn't a field of clutter and boxes...

There's actually a lot of space in the living room without all the boxes there, and there will be even more when we finally rip out the built in entertainment center (which is still serving as a storage unit). But don't think we actually spent the time to unpack the boxes, they're just in the office...

I did, however, manage to find the box that had my missing dresses. Apparently I had a box labeled "Purses," which, without digging through it, appeared to be stuffed with nothing but purses, but thankfully, my dresses were at the bottom. Look out Oviedo, you just got competition for best dressed! Derek's 2 Gator hoodies, are still missing.
 
The last of the progress this week happened after the guests left, when Derek got all his junk off of the patio...

Our patio is officially HUGE! At our old place, the table in the picture above took up at least 3/4 of the patio, now it's clearly too small for the space. In other news, while our guests were in town, we went to Canvas and Cheers and painted some fabulous new art for our house...

I still can't believe we painted these! In sum, we now have a place for friends to stay, we have the plumbing fixtures in the house (therefore removing further excuses), and we have a place that feels a little more like a home.