Sunday, October 25, 2009

A House of Order

It is finally complete! After 2 and 1/2 months of living here, we are unpacked and organized in our new house. Living here with all this space, I don't know where we put all of our stuff in our last place. I have taken some pictures to give you all a virtual tour.

A little background on this house... it was build in 1898 and only had the master bedroom, the kitchen and the living room. No bathroom or upstairs, those were later added on. This house is considered "Howard's house". That is how everyone around here refers to it. Howard passed away about 4 years ago and he lived here for over 40 years. He and his wife raised some daughters here. Howard worked for a salvage yard. He would go to crash sites and salvage whatever he could. Therefore our house is a complete variety of randomness. He would bring things home and put them up in his house. For example the kitchen has 3 different types of textured walls and our master bath has an accordian door with a stain glassed window above it. At first I didn't know what to think, now I don't think twice about it. We love "Howard's house". Our landlords live next door and we love that. They are not only our landlords but the husband is Scott's boss/professor and they are both really good friends. They even let us have Cosmo here which has been a huge blessing.

So here is the tour....

This is the master bedroom. It is smaller than our last bedroom but we like it.

This the master bath. It's pretty good size with a shower.
One of my favorite features is this... Howard made a lot of stuff and I believe this is one of those homemade masterpieces. This comes in super handy since Scott and I like different kinds of toilet paper. And it has a magazine rack. This is our living room. It is pretty good size so we kind of split it into 2 seperate rooms, since we have enough couches to do this. So this part is Scott part/TV/exercise/office. (Yes you may spy Elmo and a Castle Grey Skull on Scott's desk). And you might be able to spot our teeny tiny TV. (We still have to get our projector fixed.)
This side is our formal living room. We usually only sit here when we have guests. But it is relaly nic to have the 2 separate living spaces.
This is our retro kitchen. It has a lot of space and some awesome homemade cabinets with groovy shelf paper. This is the main bathroom. It's a lot bigger than it looks.
This is one of the bedrooms upstairs. We use it mostly for extra clothes and our shoes. It has a desk in there too. There is another bedroom upstairs but I didn't take a picture of that one. We have someone renting from us that lives in that one. She is a student here in town and I work with her. It works out really well for all of us. Our basement... SO excited to have shelves to put food storage. I never thought I would be so happy about food storage but I love knowing what we have instead of it being packed into a cabinet.
This is a work bench that Scott will use.
Storage...
And our washer and drier space.

We love being here and I feel more at home here than I did in our last place. It is so nice not to hear neighbors above us. I always felt like I was sharing a house with other people. This place may be old but we love the character and history that it has.

And the last thing that makes a house a home is this guy...
He will be with us for 3 whole weeks this time!

Monday, October 19, 2009

2 whole years!

Well it's been 2 years since we got married. It's great to say that we will get to see each other on this anniversary where I couldn't say that last year. We had a wonderful weekend together and it's always good to take that time to renew that love that brought you together. Happy anniversary to the man of my dreams!

(He was about to sneeze in this picture.)

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Back in business!

Scott was finally able to fix my computer and it is now virus free. There was a point where he suggested that I look into getting another computer because it looked so bleak, but he worked his magic over countless hours, and many late late nights, and it is finally all back together. He pretty much rocks my world!

So now I get to get used to using a PC again instead of a Mac. There will be some things that I will miss about a Mac (that frustrated me to no end when I first started using it), but I'm so glad to have my computer back up and running. What a blessing!

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Another visit


I know you guys probably get sick of me talking about my dog, but I love love love him! Not as much as I love Scott (just to be clear), but he is my baby. He came to visit for a week and it was so much fun! I know that most of you don't understand how you could love a dog so much but Scott's cousin Jamin was very skeptical and always made fun of how much I loved Cosmo, but she spent some time with him this week and she is so attached to him now. I think you just have to spend some time with him to understand his cute personality. 
 So here is a video of Cosmo and Scott playing. Cosmo has this fascination with hair. He likes to taste it and then it tickles his nose so has to scratch his whole body. When he does it to my hair he actually chews on it. It tickles a lot. 

He got to know the CEU campus really well. This is a picture of the fountain that he accidentally jumped into last time he was with us. (Yes someone colored it green, I'm glad it wasn't green the time he jumped in.) 
He took a lot of naps. I think it's so cute when he sleeps.

We are hoping to bring him down here permanently very soon. We can't wait!