Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Tiling With Daddy...
There are four rooms to be tiled at our house and Andrew is more than halfway done with the biggest job: the kitchen, powder room and back hall. Lucky for him that he has a helper for all of these home improvements!
Moving...
I've never moved before. Well, not really, anyways. I went to college and lived with a friend for a year after graduation before I got married, but I only brought the necessary belongings with me in both instances. And as a poor college student or first-year worker, I had very little to bring anyways. Then when Andrew and I got married we ordered furniture and had it sent to our new house. On top of all of this, my parents are still in the house that I grew up in. So, I guess it would be more accurate to say that I never had to entirely vacate a house, knowing I'd never be back again.
The process on a whole when very smoothly. I had everything labeled and organized, we had many friends and family members to help us with the actual move (we still owe all of them big time!) and we had beautiful weather the day of the move (what are the chances in December?). It was a bittersweet time, exciting to be moving to our new house we had been waiting so long to purchase and to which Andrew had done so much work, but also sad to be leaving our first house. We have so many memories at 218 Warwick Way and so many projects we did around the house together to make it our home. But, in the end, we decided to tuck those memories in the back of our minds; we will always have them to look back on and now we will have so many more memories in our new house and town!
So, moving day finally arrived and we set about our plan to move four (yes, FOUR!) truckloads of "Martin stuff" to Telford. As I look back, December 28th will forever be engraved in my mind as my first move. The whole day went so smoothly and it just felt as if God was looking down on us in so many ways that day. The only regret I have is that I was so wrapped up in the task of moving that I forgot to take a single photo. So, no U-Haul photos (we may have to visit the local store and "recapture the moment" in front of one of the trucks for my scrapbook :) and no photos of friends huffing and puffing as they carried one of our 20 boxes of books up two flights of stairs to the attic (LOL!). But, what I do have are these few priceless photos of Ben helping Andrew pack our car about 2 weeks before the big move, when we got a babysitter for the day and Andrew and I brought over our first carload of boxes so that I could get a headstart on getting the kitchen organzied.
The process on a whole when very smoothly. I had everything labeled and organized, we had many friends and family members to help us with the actual move (we still owe all of them big time!) and we had beautiful weather the day of the move (what are the chances in December?). It was a bittersweet time, exciting to be moving to our new house we had been waiting so long to purchase and to which Andrew had done so much work, but also sad to be leaving our first house. We have so many memories at 218 Warwick Way and so many projects we did around the house together to make it our home. But, in the end, we decided to tuck those memories in the back of our minds; we will always have them to look back on and now we will have so many more memories in our new house and town!
So, moving day finally arrived and we set about our plan to move four (yes, FOUR!) truckloads of "Martin stuff" to Telford. As I look back, December 28th will forever be engraved in my mind as my first move. The whole day went so smoothly and it just felt as if God was looking down on us in so many ways that day. The only regret I have is that I was so wrapped up in the task of moving that I forgot to take a single photo. So, no U-Haul photos (we may have to visit the local store and "recapture the moment" in front of one of the trucks for my scrapbook :) and no photos of friends huffing and puffing as they carried one of our 20 boxes of books up two flights of stairs to the attic (LOL!). But, what I do have are these few priceless photos of Ben helping Andrew pack our car about 2 weeks before the big move, when we got a babysitter for the day and Andrew and I brought over our first carload of boxes so that I could get a headstart on getting the kitchen organzied.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Getting Settled
I'm back! After a month sabatical from my blog due to a hectic move and then several problems that prevented us from becoming connected online for a few weeks (grr... the 150 year old house strikes again!), I am up and running and will be updating both blogs again regularly. Thanks to all of my *fans* who have been asking for updates!
So...we're here in Telford. It's been a month now and we are getting settled slowly. The house is defintiely a work in progress in many respects but we have come a long way. We're down to about 10 boxes in the main part of the house to go through and I took an Internet crash course on how to hammer a nail into plaster walls today so I'll be hanging some things on the walls very soon, which will make our new house feel more like a home.
In the meantime, I wanted to post a few photos of some of the rooms. More is to come over the next week, I promise, so keep checking in. And by all means, come and visit us! We love visitors and the boys would love to show you their new rooms and playroom, I'm certain.
Here is Ben's room, all "trucked out"...
Nate's room...
Kitchen. The tile floor in these photos is Andrew's latest project, soon to be complete.
Living room...
Master bedroom...
Study...
And the playroom...
I haven't had a chance to photograph the rest of the house yet but I will very soon!
So...we're here in Telford. It's been a month now and we are getting settled slowly. The house is defintiely a work in progress in many respects but we have come a long way. We're down to about 10 boxes in the main part of the house to go through and I took an Internet crash course on how to hammer a nail into plaster walls today so I'll be hanging some things on the walls very soon, which will make our new house feel more like a home.
In the meantime, I wanted to post a few photos of some of the rooms. More is to come over the next week, I promise, so keep checking in. And by all means, come and visit us! We love visitors and the boys would love to show you their new rooms and playroom, I'm certain.
Here is Ben's room, all "trucked out"...
Nate's room...
Kitchen. The tile floor in these photos is Andrew's latest project, soon to be complete.
Living room...
Master bedroom...
Study...
And the playroom...
I haven't had a chance to photograph the rest of the house yet but I will very soon!
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