Our House-aversary, Slacking, and a Change for the Blog

We recently celebrated our first ever House-aversary, and we may or may not have celebrated with the champs (or is bubbly pink moscato considered wine?) that our fab realtor, Erica, gave us as a closing present... yeah. We kinda forgot about that until we were close enough to use it for our house-aversary...

 
Now I know I promised a special edition house-aversary update, but... my computer crashed. LAME! And now that it's up and running, I'm ready to show the world our progress... except there hasn't been any. Derek has been working 60+ hours a week/6 days a week since October, and because he is the primary source of our progress (ok, the only source of our progress), not much has progressed. So, the majority of my house-aversary update will require you to read the 6 month house-aversary post, and just replace all mentions of 6 months with 1 year...

6 month House-aversary Post 

Now that you've got the majority of our "progress" covered, let's see what has actually been done in the last 6 months (in no particular order because I can't remember when anything happened anymore).

After a through cleaning of the walls (I had no idea walls could be so dirty)... 

 ..and with the help of the ever fabulous Brodie and Sara...

We painted the main living area and kitchen!

We kept warm during the cold winter with our fireplace...

I also turned our messy junk room/storage facility/OMGhowdidIletthishappen room...

 
...into a pretty darned organized office with enough floor space to make carpet angels!

Then, we got the idea (and this is just in the last few weeks) to get started on the closet, so that the office could be fully organized. But so far it hasn't had the desired effect...

But I guess it has to get ugly before it could get pretty, and it will be pretty. I mean, check this out...

HEY! Stop looking at my husband's butt! I wanted you to check out the shelves!

In other news, Derek got a riding lawn mower...

Photo bomb courtesy of Lucy

...but it doesn't work yet.

So that's all folks! Not too much around here, which is why we've decided to make a little change to the blog. You see, blogging solely about the house makes it difficult to come up with things to write about during the weeks (or months!) when nothing happens. And while we've found it hard to get stuff done around the house in the last 6 months, we surely have found time to keep life interesting...

I became an Aunt, and Derek became an Uncle!!

So, we've decided that while we love our home and want to continue the never-ending quest to improve it, we don't have the time to get enough done to be worth writing about on a regular basis. With that in mind, the blog will now be about our LIFE including, (but no longer limited to) our house! Get ready for regular posts again!

Until next time...