New Homeowners!

During the end of May and first of June, Doug and I moved into our new house. Doug's parent's had owned it and rented out the top and bottom. Now we live in the top and Doug's cousin Kira and her husband Jeff live in the bottom. It is a lot of fun to live right above them. We are also just a block away from Doug's parents house now and we love it. We see a lot more of the family now and that is always fun. Here are a few pictures of what we have been up to...

I know Shane was SO happy to be helping us move. Your the best!

We recrutied our family to help us move and they were great. The couches were quite tricky to get outside. We had to go through our kitchen and it barely fit!

My dad, the expert lawn man, felt we needed to put insecticide down. So here is Doug, so happy to be spraying bug killer around our lawn.

We cleaned out the garage and it was quite the adventure. Growing up our garage was always a disaster...some of you know exactly what I am talking about. So Doug and I have vowed to keep a clean garage. We found 75 gallon and 2 liter bottles of water hiding up in the rafter from the people that owned the house many years ago. That was fun to dispose of. Doug definitely got the dirtiest because he was the one willing to clean all the really dusty stuff up high.

My sister Aly had the great idea to paint our kitchen cabinets before we moved all our food into them. So, we undertook the large project and now that we are done, I am so glad that we did it.

We used oil-based paint and I had no idea how much harder it was to clean off yourself and off the brushes. I hate it!

A few of our drawers will not fit back in, so we still have to work on them. But all the cabinents are working great.

Here is the finished project...

I was lucky enough to find the paint to the kitchen in our garage (thank you Brooke and Ben). So I painted two of the walls that were wood and I think it looks great.

This is the Kitchen before the painting...

Before we moved in the roof was replaced. Doug's uncle Danny is a mater constructioner and did a great job. Doug, Shane, Danny, and this other boy did all the work. I went on my days off and had a great time working with the boys. Danny put me in charge of the nail gun and it was fantastic. It was a good thing we re-roofed, because why they were working, both Doug and Shane had the roof break on them and they fell up to their waist. Too scary for me.

Working hard up on the roof.