Moving In the Snow

Just an FYI, when you move in the middle of a snow storm, it's important that you shovel first.



This photo was taken less than 15 hours after we closed.. Note, we close at 6pm on a Friday night..

My Husband is Serious Business

Despite the wind blizzard in Chicago yesterday the hubs and I went out to get a tree. Typically we cut down our own but with not getting into our house till late and the negative windchill that have been keeping us inside, we figured this year we may have to buy one already cut down ::sad trombone::

We went to a few places to find the pickings very slim. We found some too short and some that looked like Charlie browns tree (which we may go back and get one of those too since really all trees need love right?) We finally found a tree that looked full and had branches from the top to the bottom. We had measured the tree and knew we needed exactly 1 foot cut off by the time we added the stand to the tree. We asked the guy to cut off a foot but we're pretty sure he didn't cut it. How can we tell? Check it:

This is our "Griswold" Christmas tree of 2010. The 9ft tree we will never forget (especially when we have to paint the ceiling in the spring).

Minne Monday

Happy Minne Monday. I should note that the last 2 weekends have been spent moving and unpacking. We've also had the in-laws up back to back weekends. First to help us move in last weeks blizzard and this past weekend to celebrate Landon's mom's birthday. Between work, moving and being sick, it's been nice to have the family around so that Minne has had lots of times with cousin Buddy, or as we've been calling him, cousin Eddie (think Christmas Vacation), to keep her occupied and not so stressed with the move.

We've nick-named him cousin Eddie because of a few things. The first weekend he came up, he was outside playing and tried to run inside and ran right in through our screen. Following that there was a poop on the stairs issue (think "shitters full") and there was some clothing items that cousin Eddie pulled out of the boxes and ate. He physically ate holes in 2 of my shirts and we later on found a shirt of Landons.

Despite Buddy's behavior issues, we still love him. He's really is a great dog and we need to take steps back and remind ourselves that he is still just a puppy and he was in a new environment and well puppy things happen. Just like cousin Eddie, there's so many things to love about cousin Buddy. Minne especially loves the times when she has a cuddle bug to sleep with.

More cuddle time:

As much as Minne enjoys and loves her cousin, she also likes when the family leaves (I think we all can relate). After Buddy leaves, Minne usually finds herself doing a lot of this:

Since we've moved, Minne's struggled finding things that smell or feel like our previous home. It's a comfort issues for sure. This comforter was from our old place and old bed. It got half way down the stairs as we were trying to get it to the washing machine when Minne claimed her territory. With everything else in our house being so new (since we have finally opened our wedding presents) we figured we might as well let Minne have this blanket for a few more days, just until she starts to feel settled.

More on Minne in the new house later.

Wedding Photos

I know I shared my wedding photos with you before but my photographer recently got asked to put together a slide show for the venue where we had our wedding and reception. I obviously loved the photos so I feel the need to share the slide show that Katherine Salvatori put together for the venue.

Hope you enjoy



PS I should note that our wedding was the first wedding that Katherine had ever shot. Incredible don't you think?

FB Number Game

Am I too old to play Facebook's number game?

The rules? You send me any number between 1 and 500 to my FB inbox and I will post something about you using the number you picked.

I think I am getting too old for these things but at the same time I am super curious. Thoughts?

Our New House

If you've been tuned out the past few months during our house hunt process you can do a quick recap by reading these.

But we finally closed on our house so enough talk lets get to the details.

Stats:
3 Bedroom
3.5 Bathroom
A full finished basement (with a wet bar that caused some problems at closing) - Landons favorite
A fenced in yard - Minne's favorite
Attached 2 car garage
A fireplace (my favorite)

Ok Ok enough jibber jabber lets see the house right?

Meet our new place!

The day we looked at the house was a Sunday Bears day and the Packer Fan of a husband of mine was forced to wear a Bears shirt, per a Pakcers Bears bet. What a good sport.

The Back of the house and the yard.

Minne can't wait for you to come play.

Shall we go inside?

Half bathroom main floor

Lets head upstairs!

Master Bath, I apprently I didn't take a pre photo of the master bedroom.

Spare rooms 1 & 2

Spare bathroom, note the cute little window above the tub. It brings in a ton of light during the day.

Laundry room off of the garage

Landons garage workspace

And the basement

All she needs is a bow tie and she'll be the best bartender there is!

Finally - A New House

Yup we closed! Finally!!! Our closing got moved from 2pm on Thursday, to 9am on Friday, to 10am on Friday, to 2pm on Friday. We were a little worried we weren't going to close at all and we had to be out of our apartment by Saturday morning. So we loaded up some trailers Friday morning in hopes of moving in Friday night and we FINALLY did just that. I say finally because our house hunting adventure started last March! We planned on buying a house in June and it's now December. Most of you know this already but until we own a house it's going to be extremely difficult for us to try to start our family as we are going the adoption route so the past few months have been extremely trying on us. So starting Friday we are officially home owners and we are officially on the 5 year adopting a family plan.


Photos to come.