Outside sneak...

Here is a sneak peek at the outside of our house.  We haven't done the lawn yet, so don't be a hater =)  

Welcome

You can't see it, because apparently I didn't take a good picture, but there is an extra parking pad attached to our driveway and our mailbox is chopped off too...it would be in the bottom left corner of the grass in the picture if it were there.....

This is the view from out of the garage.  We have a picnic table and a shed to the left over there....

 A view from the back of our yard....That's a crab apple tree there if you are wondering.....

This is looking the the left from where I was in the previous picture...

Straight on from the middle of the backyard....

 After talking with a neighbor, we think this dirt pile is from when they dug out the egress window...the left of the house you can see the cover they built to go over it to keep the snow and rain out.

Anyhow, these last two pictures are from the other back corner of our yard.  

I'll post some pictures after we get the yard done.  Once we start getting some things put away etc I'll take some pictures of the inside to share with you. But until then, if you want to see it you have to come and visit....shucks =)

Finished....

the front flower bed....

Check out some of the before pictures here on my other post on yard work.

Well, today I finished the front flower bed.  The second before picture is what the second half of the front flower bed looked like.  I needed a machete (sp??) to get through that stuff!  I'm ready to dig up those plants and get rid of them because next spring I do not want to have to do that again!!

Here are the pictures of the finished project (which was done to the best of my abilities as a first time flower bed taker carer haha).

 first loop....

 second loop.....

 third loop....

Fancy right? I broke in the shovel I got for Easter from Chad's parents! There was a random pile of dirt in the middle of one of the loops so I took it and spread it where there were big holes (so, the darker parts of the loops are the newly moved dirt).

This is where the big pile of dirt was....and let me tell you, this was the bug capital of the flower bed.  ICK!

Back in March....

Back in March Chad's mom and dad came for a visit!  

Ann wanted to put together a diaper cake, so we tackled this new adventure together.  This is how they turned out (she did most of the work, I was just there to learn too). A friend of her's sister was having a baby shower later in the month.  She is having twins, a boy and a girl...as if you couldn't tell!

These were taken when we still lived in the condo.

A little yard work......

Happy Easter!

Chad and I went to Montana yesterday, and came back today! It was a super short trip.  We got home and because we finally had an AMAZING day here we decided to get started on some much needed yard work/putting stuff away.

Chad arranged and rearranged and put some stuff away in the garage while I swept up the mess from getting the roof reshingled out back and out front.  There are/were shingles and nails EVERYWHERE around the house, so it's going to be quite the project.  Travis helped sweep up the front =)

After we tackled that I felt ambitious because of the amazing weather.  Along the front of our house is quite the flower/shrub/etc area.  It is nicely tucked in a curvy shape.  When they reshingled the roof they trampled it and the snow beat it up as well.  So I cleaned up, to the best of my abilities having never really done it before, one section of the curve.  It took me almost 2 hours or more to just clean up this little section!  There are tons of nails and shingles in there and I'm sure I still didn't get them all, but, I did the best I could!

These are how some of the plants looked before I started:

Halfway done!

This section is done! It's a little rough around the edges, I know, but I'm pretty proud of how it turned out =)

move over!

So, that's the title of a book I've been looking for, but, alas, I haven't found it yet, so I'm going to put it as my title haha.

Lots going on in the Hoff house.  I'll get some pictures on here soon.  We've been busy with the move and trying to get settled (and I'm not going to lie, the kitchen and half of the bathroom are the only things unpacked).   We aren't going to be around this weekend so not much else is going to get unpacked....matter of fact we are bringing more stuff back home with us!  eek!

Chad's been uber busy at work and will be on a sales blitz next week for work (I thought it was this week but my days are off...once again).  He's excited. He went on one of these last year and had a good time.  In June he has another training thing to go to also.  He's a perdy busy guy!

I'm just plugging away at work and enjoying my last few weeks with the kiddos. 

We went for a family walk tonight for the first time in our new neighborhood.  Everyone we saw was really nice and the neighborhood is so quiet.  I think we are really going to enjoy it.  I'm excited for the weather to warm up a little bit more so I can clear out the flower bed out front and get the yard looking fresh!  The snow can quit any time now and I wouldn't be upset =)

Once things get put away a little bit more I'll post some pictures of the house. 

Enjoy your Wednesday evening! We are (the boys are playing some army game now, and I'm going to hit the hay)!

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This is so true.....

BUSY

Just a quick update....

We bought a house, Chad's back is feeling slightly better, still no news on the job front for me, and we are moving this weekend!  

I won't have internet after Friday....okay, so it'll be hooked back up on Tuesday haha.  

Chad goes to see the allergy doctor on Wednesday the 13th and our regular chiropractor =) I have a good feeling he'll be able to whip Chad back into place because he did the last two times this has happened......

That's all for now =)