Matty Rocks

See what happens when my brother turns 30?? Yes, that is he, the orange shirted lead singer. On his birthday we went to Chicago and saw his band play at a bar there. It was the coolest thing I have done in like... um... a decade or so! Great job Matty in the Hatty!!!!

Movin' In

Hi there!

Well, this post is going to be full of pictures... yet I still don't have the most recent ones. I really need to catch up, but in my defense October has been the busiest month yet for us.

So, first picture is a little old, but shown in the way of a "before" picture. This is the living room/all purpose room that was one of the last rooms finished.

This next one shows the reason we have been so busy! Yes, our house finished and closed a month early!! The moving trucks arrived on the 23rd after we closed on the 19th. We had hoped to get a ton of painting done over the weekend... but really only got Ethan's room (light blue) and the kids bathroom (bright yellow, like in the old house to go with the frog shower curtain). All in time I guess. :)

Here are SOME {really just a few} of the boxes in the kitchen with DH the tired posing near them for me. I wound up chosing stainless LG appliances. I really like them so far. Of course I haven't really USED them too much yet - they still have plastic on many of them! Also this pic shows the cabinets/floor/counter sorta kinda.

Next is the family room. In this room you can tell our moving in theory. "Just put it in the family room" was uttered too much by us I think! It can be overwhelming with the movers there. There were four of them and they unpacked that HUGE truck in just one day, about 8 hours or a bit less even.

To illustrate the next thing... we had "un-packers" come too. We were very blessed with this move and the help we received. So, what they did (in some of the rooms) was that they unpack the box and lay everything on flat surfaces after first laying down paper. Made the kitchen sort of VERY overwhelming to see everything I own out on counters, the floor, and three tables that we had set up. Yipe. So, this is Abbie's room before....

And this is after....

We are moving along - but I imagine this will all take some time. We have our first visitors a few days before Thanksgiving for the week when Meme and Papa come. That will give me some sort of deadline to make things move faster. One thing that will be happening as quickly as possible is putting COLOR on the walls. Too much builders beige makes me start to feel beige after awhile... know what I mean?

Well, really I am supposed to be packing up here at my parents house right now, so I better get to it! Our goal is to be in the new house overnight tomorrow {Saturday the 27th - our first official move in night!}. I promise that when I can I will get some more current house pics room by room and update you on the other excitement in October (including my brother's Chicago rock concert, some crafting projects, and my sister in law's baby shower to name a few... I told you October has been crazy busy.) For those of you whose personal blogs I am behind on, I am truly sorry and hope to catch up with my commenting soon. Let me know how you're all doing okay? Happy Halloween too! {oy, that's more october to update}

scrapbookers habitat

Thank you Kristin for showing me this! I laughed SO hard!!! I think MY "DH" could relate! Couldn't yours? This is also a good tip for my new studio space. What do you think DH?

The Metric System

This is one of the reasons Abbie LOVES school! Her science teacher is the one with the "rad" curly black wig, Mr. Ablao. Makes me miss teaching! Couldn't you just see us doing this Kristin???!!!