Putting stuff up!

Well, now that Cass and I are officially moved in, there hasn't been a whole lot of things to do that are interesting. We've mainly just been unpacking and finding places for everything. Cass did a great job of unpacking a lot of stuff on Saturday while I was fixing a few things on the truck getting it ready for our back to back weekend trips coming up.

Sunday however, we did a few things to the house. We bought some canvases and fabric to wrap the canvases in to create some "artwork" for the living room. We had one wall that was completely blank, so we needed to do something with it and Cass had the genius idea to do what we did. I think it turned out pretty darn good!

We also put up our wedding pictures in the "foyer" hallway. I guess you could call it the foyer anyway. It's the hallway in front of the front door.

The other thing that we did which was really special was we took a painting that Cass's great grandmother (we call her "Momoo") painted back in 1970 and had it reframed. It had a frame around it before, but it was kinda falling out of the frame and the frame was really old. So we went down to Michaels and got a new frame for it which really breathed some new life into the painting. It looks fantastic in our dining room and it's really special too because Momoo's Buffet, painting, and (coming soon) her dining table will be in the dining room.

So that's what's been up around our place lately. For Father's Day, my Mom and Dad joined us for a bike ride out at Willow Metropark and a BBQ afterwards at our house. It was great fun. I hope everyone had a great Father's day, too.

After the move...

Well, the move was a success. We rented a Uhaul truck for the move on Saturday which turned out to be one of the easiest moves many of the people who helped expressed that they've ever been involved with. We started packing up that beauty of a V10 truck with a 14 foot lunchbox on it's back around 2:20pm, which took us approximately 30 minutes and had it unpacked around 20 minutes after arriving at the house, 3:40ish. That was awesome! We were so geeked about how easily it went.

Cass and I had moved most of the essentials from the apartment over, so the bulk of what we were moving was just the furniture. Here's a couple of really terrible pictures that totally don't do justice to how the place looks now, but you get the idea.

We are FINALLY home. Everything's here. It feels so good.

More Curtains!

Cass and I decided that this past weekend was going to be a mild weekend in terms of work. We needed a good break.

The only thing we really did was buy and hang curtains for the bedroom and pack and move some more small stuff from the apartment over. We bought the curtains on Saturday and got a pretty sweet deal from JCPenney on the panels and we used our 20% off coupons at Bed, Bath, & Beyond for the scarves. When we got back, I got right to hanging the curtains. They turned out pretty good. We both like them a lot. They're kind of sheer, but the window shades behind them really block the light well so that's nice.

Except for the TV, the bedroom is pretty much finished. The TV will be going downstairs in the living room once we get the living room furniture in.


Here's what each window looks like.


And I love how the bedroom looks now!