We’ve been collecting a few random photos fro a little while now. They don’t really have a specific place of their own to live on here. Several are from our anniversary last month. We kept the top tier of our wedding cake (it survived 2 moves!), and ate it on our anniversary. We’ve also got a few new house photos. We’ve been adding storage shelves/brackets/doors to provide some places to put our stuff.
It was another busy day for housework today. When we bought the green paint for the kitchen last month, we also bought some tan paint for the living room. The paint found its way out of the bucket and onto the walls this morning. Like before, we put together a time lapse of the process. I wish it had gone as fast as the time lapse makes it look.
Music: Kevin MacLeod
My sister, Joanna, and Ben tied the knot on July 12 and it was quite the party. Though they were originally going to have their reception at the IMU, the alternate site, the UI Athletic Club, turned out to be fabulous. It was an excellent party. Check out our pics in the gallery here.
While we were in Iowa celebrating Jo and Ben’s wedding, we also celebrated our first anniversary. It’s difficult to believe that we’ve been married for a year now. Where has the time gone?! Scott and I have had so many adventures this past year: moving to Arizona, starting new jobs, buying a house. It’s gone by so fast!
Today we painted for the first time at our house. We decided to paint the kitchen an olive green color. We only ended up painting a few walls, but it seemed to take forever going around cabinets and appliances. Now we just have a few touch-ups to do and then we’ll be done…with the kitchen anyway. We’ll see when we can muster enough energy to move on to another room. Check out our time lapse video painting the kitchen and photos of the final product.
Music: Kevin MacLeod
It is done! As of this morning we’re mostly done with the backyard! We moved four and a half tons of rock from a pile on our driveway through the gate to the backyard (after a short interruption from a thunderstorm). As you can image we were very tired once everything was moved and spread. We got most of it spread out last night, but it got dark, and we finished it up this morning. So now all that we have left to do is find some plants for the back portion against the wall of the yard. Hopefully that won’t be as tiring as the last parts! You can see the final shots of the 90% finished backyard in the gallery.
It’s time for another catch-up post. We’ve been busy since moving into the new house. We took a quick vacation in DC after Jess’s work trip. Photos from DC are up in the gallery. Since then, we’ve been getting settled into the house. This includes a lot of work in the back yard recently. We wanted to get things taken care of out there before the Monsoons come in mid-July. The first task was digging in the HARD NASTY Arizona dirt to install drip irrigation so we can grow a few plants back there. This weekend, while Jess is in Chicago for her sister’s bachelorette party, I did a few other jobs in the yard, including laying pavers out from our patio (thanks for helping Will!). Now we just need to cover the rest of the ground with rocks. Later this week four and a half tons will be dumped in the middle of our driveway. I guess that plans out our weekend for us. After the rock goes in, the last item left to do is plant a few things out there. I’m sure we’ll have photos up when everything is finished. It will be nice to have the yard all said and done so we can move onto new projects (painting!).
I set up the laptop to capture a time lapse of the pavers going in.
Music: Kevin MacLeod
Everything successfully made it from the old apartment to the new house with relatively little hassle (for a move). We moved in all the non-furniture items after picking up our keys last Tuesday morning, then movers took the furniture over on Wednesday. We have been unpacking boxes, and hooking stuff up since then. The keys were turned in for the apartment over the weekend, so I guess we’re official now. There is still a good load of boxes yet to unpack (we can’t park in our garage yet), and after things settle down a bit, we’ll be doing some painting. If you haven’t found them yet, new house photos are up in the gallery.
The apartment is now empty, and the movers are en route to the house with our furniture.
The truck is empty!
