Planning

Utah normally has a rather cold and mostly dry winter. We normally have a hand full of snow storms and a ton of inversion.

This year utah missed the memo that it was winter. So far we have received 2 snow storms and only had to shovel our drive way twice. "Knock on wood, it is sill only April!" 

Sadly back east they have been hammered with snow... And we don't have much water for the year.... However all that aside it has made some interesting events for us in our new home!!

We have our whole house surrounded by dirt.... With 2 little boys and a pup they love the dirt... And their favorite part is to play and being some inside! :)

We started the bidding processes to get our yard landscaped a few weeks ago!

Step 1: take a drawing to a local supply store for bid on materials!

After a week of waiting we heard back that peices alone were about $1700!

Then the project planning began!

Ashten's Abilities!

I have not always been an accident prone child.  Growing up I only broke 2 bones.
Collar bone (age 5)
Arm (age 11)


Not too bad RIGHT?
Well the past few months and I have NOT been good to me.
Just before the house was done I had a mis-hap
Item 1: LONG story short, our car died and we had to get a jump before we drove home from the new house.  The car died again on the off ramp... THEN we went to push it.  We started pushing, Chris hoped in the driver side to drive and I hoped on to the side of the car... well I fell off :S
Gratefully there was a car full of girls that stopped picked me up and kept me from being run over.
My ankle (left) got hurt and I scraped my knee (right).  Other then that it was just scary.  After a few days I was back to normal, with just some pain.

Item 2: SUPER long story SHORT. I was painting the wood around my parents garage.  I was standing on a bar stool. I fell off said bar stool straight on to my knee (right). I had a whole pint of paint in my hand that went all over the driveway, and it hurt A LOT.

This time I thought I would be fine. We live about an hour away from my parents house.  By the time we got closer to home, I thought we might want to go by the hospital.  I wasn't sure though, I really didn't want to waste time or MONEY!

Chris vetoed my "not" side and took me to the hospital.  They took x-rays of both last weeks ankle and this weeks knee. NOTHING was broken.  They gave me a leg brace for my knee and crutches.

It hurt and was NOT FUN!!!

I would post the awesome pics, but they are kinda gruesome so I won't.

Creating a Play Room!

PLAY TIME!

Moving In!

Closing on a house is a VERY stressful time.  We were supposed to close on Wed. Sept 3, but due to some timing things we didnt get to close until Thurs Sept 4. Which really wouldn't be that big of a deal... EXCEPT we hired the movers to move us on Thursday, so we had to reschedule it to Saturday!

We both had thursday off from work so we started loading everything into Dan's trailer and got almost everything ready to take to the house.  We took it over and unloaded everything on Friday and were ready for the movers on Sat.

The movers were LATE as always, but only about 30 min so not TOO BAD. :P common people show up on time!  That being said I loved our movers.  They always work hard and get whats needed done.  We had 2 trucks and its sad how much stuff we have accumulated over the last 10 years.  Dan decided he was tired of the pool table taking over his basement so he said  if the movers move it, it can be ours.  It was a PAIN in the A** to move, but it will be really fun once we get the basement finished.

After a very long day we finally had moved in.

I AM SO GRATEFUL TO HAVE 4 WALLS!!!!!!!!!! They are All mine!!

Pintrest: Basement

I love to orginize! Really it should be an illness treated by millions of plastic little boxes!

Ever since I was little I can remember getting rubber made containers for my birthday and Christmas. Some girls love shoes and purses well I love those and boxes!

When we bought our townhouse the most amazing thing about it really was the amazing storage room!

I loved it when I found that Costco boxes fit perfect on the premade shelfs! I love them!!! 

Now that we have a beautiful new home with no premade shelfs I'm on a mission! 

Under our porch is my place to work my magic!!! Or so I think!

We have a large space and I have some fun ideas! 

The plan is to the left will be a nice little wine cellar. We are still working out the details, but I have some good ones. Then to the right is MINE!! The goal here is to have everything we want stored, in this area!

That includes holidays, decore and some food storage (the food might be mixed in with the wine, we will see! 

Here are some of my ideas!!

Numbers!

I am a numbers person! As some would say. I am the nerd in the family! I have my BS degree in finance and I work in that industry.

This makes it both my blessing and my curse. 

Im all about honesty, so I'll keep this real. 

This is our dream house!!! No question about it. However that does not mean it doesn't come with its own set of stresses.

This mortgage will be about double what our last one was, and we have more utilities this time around.

Being the nerd means I get excited and terrified as the house continues to become more livable. 

Chris and I both work full time, and that is the right thing for us. I have many friends and people I blog stock that are SAHM or WAHM I am neither of those. I am a working mom and I LOVE it!!!

Our budget is alittle less >tight< then others, however we do have the challenge of daycare, long nights and EXHAUSTED parents!!! It is amazing how nice a drive through burger sounds after a 10 hr work day + 2 hr OT and a limited 30 min lunch, and a round trip commute of about 2 hours with 9 hr left in the day, including sleep cooking is NOT high on the priority list.... 

But, eating out is EXPENSIVE!!!! 

This month is my go for it, gung hoe we need to save more money!!!! We need to be prepped and ready for our new mortgage!!

Textured walls!

After a nice long weekend with the 4th of July and a trip to Lava Hot Springs we stopped by the house. 

We were happy to see the garage mudded

And textured walls!!!

Master

Main family room!

Kitchen area 

It is going so quickly it is so exciting!!!

Chris is excited for his textured walls I think it will give us a perfect element!!!