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Photo Friday #18

Well, we’re moving in tomorrow! Yikes. I just hope everything gets done. These past two weeks have been a little nuts: We shot two weddings two weekends in a row (one of them I was in – my mom was the lovely assistant), have been frantically trying to get the house done, pack and got in two accidents, yeah that’s right two!! We were on our way home from one of the weddings and got rear ended while waiting at a light, then a few days later jared was in the Lowe’s parking lot and a guy born in 1922 (not a joke – he saw his ID) backed into him and knocked out one of his front lights. The guy got out of his truck and said “Did I hit something?” and he was like, “Yeah, ME!”

OF COURSE that would happen this week, but 2 really???!?!?! I suppose we’ll laugh about this later?

Well, in any case, there is always comic relief in times of busyness and stress. My mom has been coming over to help me pack this week and she totally mislabeled one of the boxes. It was supposed to say “bonus ROOM” not “rum” hahaha. I do not have such a plethora of rum that I need a separate box for the bonus rum, hah.

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Photo Friday #17

“It’s going to look worse before it looks better.”

That’s definitely our current motto for the house. We’ve done a lot of demo and have started putting things back together. Just about one more week and we should be ready to move in!!!

Here are the “worse” pictures. I’ll update the “better” pictures soon:

Here’s my dad, hard at work:

Here are my brothers doing a fine masking job:

The gentleman and N8…not so hard at work 😉 and our ripped out baseboard and trim pile:

The beginnings of a new window, done by N8 and his dad:

The people who lived here before were kinda nasty…so I’m actually cleaning grease off the walls and ceiling so my dad can paint it, yuck!

Demo-ing [nasty] carpet and realizing there was some awesome fake wood tile stuff underneath. Maybe we should keep that?

Starting to demo the guest bath. The wood paneling on the floor was water damaged (really? water damaged in the bathroom!?!? go figure)

Demo is done in the master bath and ready for tile!

The back side of the house. We replaced that large transparent window with a smaller opaque one. Much more “bathroom friendly”, hah.

got the window in!

My brother and jared had some down time so they started putting our pile of rocks (there was a rather large pile of rocks in the side yard) to use…looking good!

Well, that’s it for now. I’ll post more as we go on!

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House Pics

Ok, here are some more pictures of the house!! I will call these “before” pictures and hopefully get some “after” pictures once we get in there and make some improvements 🙂

So here’s the front of the house…obviously

The living room with fun vaulted ceilings

The ‘garage’ – well it used to be anyway. The people before converted it to a second living room and we’re going to use it as our office/studio! So if you need portraits…hint hint

The VERY overgrown backyard. The list agent said someone was supposed to be keeping up with it…that someone probably needs to be fired.

The view from the back…ahh, country living!

And…drum roll please…my very favorite part, the kitchen! It definitely doesn’t look like a 1972 house when you look at this room 🙂

We’ll keep you posted. As of now, we should be able to close mid April and move in Mid May, woot woot! Anyone want to rent our duplex after we’re gone? Our landlords have been really awesome and we want someone awesome to take over.

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Photo Friday #13

It’s official: we’re finally in escrow…5th time’s a charm?

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Photo Friday #12

Post author By SidebySide Photography
Post date March 28, 2009

We have this plant in the backyard. We had no idea what it was for the longest time until one day we saw something on the ground. I couldn’t see what it was from inside so I went out and there were peaches everywhere! Good ones too! We actually couldn’t eat them fast enough there were so many. They were there for like 3 or 4 days, and then they were gone. It was really weird.So I went outside the other day and saw this same plant looking like this. I don’t know if these are two plants just growing in the same spot or what but I’d say that this is the most interesting plant ever. It doesn’t do anything for a long time and then it sprouts up out of nowhere. Anyway, I thought it was pretty, hence the picture.

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jared’s birthday

So the gentleman turned 33 this year 🙂 I made him a cake. It was really really ridiculously good! A friend from work passed on the recipe and so I thought I’d pass it on to you…So here goes:

Black Russian Cake:

1 box yellow cake
1 lg. box instant chocolate pudding
1/2 cup sugar
4 eggs
1 cup oil
3/4 cup water
1/4 cup Kahlua
1/4 cup vodka

mix

bake 350 degrees in a bunt pan for 45-50 minutes

cool 10 minutes

invert, poke holes, drizzle 1/2 cup Kahlua and 1 cup powdered sugar.