House #2 (for now)

So this house is the reason why we own 2 homes now! It was a foreclosure and its a mess but it has ALOT of potential. From the front it looks like nothing special, however the thing has 7 bedrooms and 4 baths, an in ground pool, 2 car garage upstairs and a boat garage down, over 2 acres, and it's on a pond (yep I typed correctly) and we got it for less alot less than $200,000! FYI: my camera took a spill on Easter so I have been using my dad's spare (note to self get a new camera, his stinks!) Here are just a few pictures.


Front of the house

View from the top deck


Pool


View from Lucy's playroom


Living room

Home Sweet Home

Before I can show pictures of the new house I must show the "old" house: come on someone buy it! It has been my project for 5 years and I LOVE IT! Andy and I did all the work ourselves from laying the floor to putting the fence up. It's a 3 bedroom 2 bath and here are some pictures of some of my favorite parts.

Down the bunny trail

Happy Easter! We had a great day today. Lucy got some fun and practical items (a tooth brush! Come on mom!) We went to early church service so we could prepare for Easter lunch.




We set up lunch on the outside deck. The tables were covered with white and yellow plastic table clothes from the dollar store on top of that we placed yellow contact paper for a runner. We started growing rye grass about a week ago in aluminium foil and wrapped it with ribbon to use as centerpieces. We used yellow plates and silverware and made bunnies out of white linen napkins. Inside the bunny we put an egg with an Easter Trivia question inside for people to play as they ate.







The kids table had dollar store hats that we embellished with a flower and butterfly. The girls also had boo boo bunnies to hold their eggs in which had stickers for them to play with at the table. Here in Georgia it is HOT! The little girls about melted! We had an Easter egg hunt with bows and little toys (it made it alot easier with all girls!) Lucy had an awesome first Easter!

Getting ready for the bunny

Today was a good day! We now have two offers on our house! We are waiting for both parties to get back to us with there "best" offer. We close on the new house on Friday and I will be cleaning, cleaning, cleaning.
We went to a tinker bell themed birthday party for Miss Ashyton earlier in the day and had a blast in the bouncy with daddy. But, we had to leave EARLY because daddy had to go to work.

At Lucy's 9 month check up the doctor told me to start working on the sippy cup, she does really well with it.

We had fun setting up for Easter lunch and dying eggs with marmee, pappa, Uncle Adam, Aunt Tiffany and Evelyn. I am finally starting not to be soooo stressed!!! Hoping life will slow down a bit.

Thanks Marmee

Lucy in her new spring poncho marmee made her.




The Easter Bunny has been hard at work getting ready for Sunday and mommy and daddy are hard at work trying to sell the house. More on the new house later!

Happy Birthday to Me

It was a nice to be celebrating something happy this week! I turned 28. I started off the weekend going to the new furniture store in Atlanta called the Dump (funny name I know). We were not impressed. It was mostly high end furniture at high end prices, not exactly the discount place they are advertising. We then went to the Ballard outlet store, it was really cool and I got alot of great ideas. We also looked at some of the big fabric warehouse in the industrial part of Atlanta. Why all this home shopping you ask, I will post on Friday Andy does not want me to "jinx" it.




On Sunday we went to my mom and dad's for lunch. My mom made a low country boil which is my favorite. Yummy. Lucy got some play time in with her toys. Andy's mom took us out for dinner that night for Italian.









Monday was my actual birthday. In the morning I went shopping with my mom, sister-in-law and niece at Charming Charlies and Ulta. Then we went to Monkey Joe's to let Miss Evelyn blow off some steam. Red Robbin was next on the list. We had a new server who took FOREVER! Lucy choked on her new favorite food, french fries. Lucy now will eat anything, she gets so mad if you are eating and she is not! She chows down on chicken nuggets, yogurt, oatmeal... the list goes on and on, and the kid has no teeth. Next we were off to Lucy's doctor. Happy Birthday to me. Lucy's has had a terrible cold with a nasty, nasty cough. The doctor said there was pretty much nothing they could do. Good times. For dinner we went out with my mom to the Broadway dinner, were they sang to me. All in all I ate my way through a wonderful birthday weekend!

A Long Hard Week

The day of Evelyn's birthday party my sweet, sweet, Grandma had a massive heart attack. She was rushed to the hospital and was slowly getting "better". My mom flew up at the beginning of the week to find out her prognosis was not long term. She was brought back to the nursing home under hospice care. The 24 hour flu swept through her nursing home and took the life of her roommate. My older brother and dad left late Friday night for St. Louis, Andy and I were the last to arrive on Sunday morning around 3am. As we entered my brother's house who goes to medical school in St. Louis we were told to leave because everyone was very sick. We headed to a hotel only to be called about five minutes later to start making our way to the nursing home to say our final goodbyes. The world lost a great lady on Sunday, but not before Lucy and I were able to kiss her goodbye. That was just the last week, she had a lifetime of love, family and joy. She meant so much to me. I am grateful for the time Lucy got to spend with her over the past few months. I keep telling myself its not goodbye, it's till we meet again. I will miss her very much.