Luke

I am scrapping the last pages for our 2012 year!! So excited to almost be caught up! While I was looking at Luke's 2nd week pictures I noticed he really hasn't changed all the much! What do you think?

 

It would have helped if I got another sleeping pic but either way he is just a cute bug!!

House Pretties!

The week after Nathan's Birthday was when our house finally began to feel like home! The boy's room was put together, the living room organized and our home finally established! There is are still many projects left and boxes to unpack but we finally have our home!

The boy's room

Nathan still loves Toy Story

Ammon and his Cars pals

I personalized the hooks in the bathroom- now everyone has their own towel!

 

 

The purple wall with mirror and quote

The boy's new display spot

I've really wanted this quote!!

my finished family room!

Having our own home is sure fun! I am excited to continue making it ours! Also I LOVE having my cameo to make my home pretty!!

Nathan's 5th Birthday!!

Shiver me timbers I have a 5 year old!!! Mother of Monkey Milk how did that happen???

Mom was panicing just a little with the playroom not finished, the living room stuffed full of furniture and the outdoor party ruined by SNOW! 

But it sill turned out fun and Nathan had a grand ole time!

Birthday call from Jake and the Neverland Pirates!

and special video too!!

 

Captain Nathan

 

The Captain and his lady, Cairo

THe playroom

To drive ourselves crazy we tore off the paneling and redid the playroom walls AFTER we moved in!! Boy what a mess!! 

After the drywall was put up we got to tape and mud the room- including the ceiling becuase we learned that it what contractors are doing with popcorn ceilings these days and since it is a converted garage the ceiling was especially gross and its the only room with carpet. 

Don't I look good in drywall mud?

 

oh and here is how my living room looked during the two weeks it took us to complete the room.

 This was about the time Ammon started begging to 'go home' :(

Luke is 4 months!

How did that happen? Little Luke already 4 months old and sitting in a bumbo? They grow up too fast!!

Easter

Easter was the second day in our new home. It was very mellow and low key but I think the boys still had fun. They had their annual egg dying at Grammy's and egg hunt at Grandma's and through the move the Easter bunny was still able to arrive and bring the boys a few treats.

March- fixing and moving

The boys helped paint their room :)

Nathan of course wanted his wall blue

Ammon wanted green

the finished walls and finished floor

My purple wall at the end of the hall

 

A really dark picture of the bathroom with it's new turqoise paint- thanks to my mom for tearing down the fiberglass and texturing for me!

 

The green wall in the living room and a floor waiting for finish

The laundry new laminate

The popcorn off all the ceilings and a new coat of fresh white paint on ceilings and walls really helped clean and brighten the house! We got the floors done just in time to let them cure before we moved in. Meanwhile this is what my apartment looked like

We bought a HOUSE!

So we have been looking at houses for 3 years here in Riverton- 3 years! With no luck :( 

We were applying for a Rural House Development Direct Loan- which means that there are a lot of restrictions and money is only available at certain times. Well, with Washington doing who knows what we learned that all the money from the program was getting sequestered on Feb. 1- getting sent back to Washington. We could get a house under contract but had to close before Mar. 31 because the program could be gone by then- as in completely gone! This would end our house hunting because a bank would never give us enough to afford a decent house in Riverton. 

So we decided we had to buy RIGHT NOW! We looked at a few houses. Found one we liked- it needed a LOT of work but the potential was great! I was soo excited! Then we got told the bad news- we didn't qualify because it was in  commercial zoning. :( I was very upset and so we decided to place a bid on a house we had sort of looked at on Moose- the main reason being I said that I would rent it and it had an AMAZING backyard! 

Who you guess that we were accepted and the bid too???

We bought a house we had looked at ONCE! It was a bit nerve racking- I was filled with a lot of doubts and what nots but we felt that this was a good thing for us! 

There was quite a few things that needed to be done on this house too-

-popcorn ceilings

-refinishing the wood floor

-paneling in the family room

-new paint (the entire house)

-the bathroom (only one!- needed some work)

and we had one month to do it! so here are some pictures of our before house!

the backyard
 

Living room

Playroom/Family Room

Bathroom (teeeny tiny)

The kitchen- funny story. About 2 years ago, Michael was working for Aaron's. He delivered the stove and refrigerator we now own :) Small town huh ?

The laundry room - after we bought the house we found water damage in the floor and had to tear up all that old vinyl and put down some new laminate.

The boys room

So here are the final stats on our home

3 bedrooms
1 bath
1334 sq. ft.
built in 1954

paid $133,000

and so while the pictures show the nicer side of the home - there was a lot of work that needed fixing!