weekend warrior hubby...

Last weekend David made his coffee pretty strong because he was definitely a weekend warrior.  First of all, he surprised me by bringing home these new spindles to add to our staircase:  

spindles before

spindles after

If any of you have a sandbox in your backyard, you might have a love/hate relationship with yours like we do.  I love how it entertains Ethan for hours at a time, I hate how the sand ends up in your house.  David hated the maintenance of grass around around it.  We almost packed up for good more than once.  At a birthday party a few weeks ago, we love how our neighbors had their landscaper "landscape" their tots toys.  So, a quick trip to Lowe's and my "landscaper" hubby comes home and makes this:

sandbox before (not a great before photo but you get the point)

backyard play area after

now with a few scrubs and a dogwood tree

We added a few hardy shrubs and a shade tree into the play area.  Ethan loves having his new area to play!  Oh, and his playhouse had been also on our patio as well.  We were thrilled to regain our patio space again and he seems to like being able to jump from sandbox to playhouse.

Ethan's house

Not last but least, we added shades to our chandelier in the dining room.  I've been looking for shades at places like Potterybarn and Ballard Designs, but couldn't bring myself to buy shades at $15-30 a piece.  David found these at Home Depot for $6 a piece.  Much nicer price!  

before shades

after with shades

David worked on all of this while I wrapped up my yard sale fun.  The yard sale went well considering I ran Ethan to the pediatrician in the middle of everything for "the croup."  He is better and I am glad to have cleaned out our storage/attic room.  A pretty big project that I have no plans on capturing on film until the container store comes and attacks my mismatched rubbermaid totes!  Anyhow, the nesting phase of this pregnancy has definitely kicked in!

we're home!

Hello friends and family! We have officially moved and are getting settled! Lots is happening with the Anderson Family, especially with our toddler, so look forward to posts soon. I just need to unbox a few hundred more boxes, hang a two dozen photos, run to target for the twentieth time, order some balloons for a special birthday, forward the mail, find my shoes, work a few shifts, .....you get the picture! Anyhow, we are IN and HAPPY!

tape and boxes....la la la (title given by David so I would give back his work laptop)

We have 4.5 days left in our townhome. We have been power boxing all weekend and are worn out and completely disconnected with the world....literally. Since it was the end of our billing cycle with Comcast, I thought it would be reasonable to have our cable/Internet/phone turned off a week before we moved. What a mistake! It is driving me crazy not being able to watch the news, weather, Olympics, not to mention the bachelor! I am glad, however, that we waited to start boxing up our things. I can't imagine living in a house that is being taken apart for longer than a week! I am having the hardest time packing Ethan's nursery. I want to make this move an easy transition for him. It makes me teary taking it all a part. Hopefully, my next post will be in our new home!

cardboard boxes...

SOLD! We have officially sold our first home. Yes, the home we bought just months after getting engaged, the home where we had our first Christmas, painted every wall, changed every floor (twice), and brought home our bundle of joy. I know....you get the picture. It is a bitter sweet thing. It is hard to leave something that has so many memories, but very exciting to start over again. David as we all know is Mr. Home Builder. He has dreamed of building his very own home. He has drawn up his own floor plan and we are hoping to see them come to life shortly. The hard part will be moving twice as we will be moving into a rental while we build. Especially with an active baby boy, small cat, extremely large dog, and two tired parents. I'm so excited to start the design process of picking out materials, however, the taking apart and boxing up this house I am less than enthusiastic about. I am the sentimental type and even was sad to leave our tiny 900 square feet apartment we lived in the first few months of our marriage. We all know the house doesn't make the home, the people that live inside of it do. Just give a quick shout out the man upstairs to grant me patience and mounds of energy to tackle this move.