Outside updates!

Here's another peek at the outside of our house!  

Two years later and we are finally BETTER than we were pre-flood! 

(which by the way, the 2nd anniversary of the sirens sounding was on June 22 @12:57 p.m.)

YAHOO! 

HOLD UP! 

Let's go back down memory lane....

Pre-flood

 I couldn't find a full shot of the front of the house pre-flood.

June 2011

When we first were able to get back into the house after the flood....

July 2011

July 2012 (weeds make for a nice plush green lawn!)

And 2 pictures of the PRESENT
JUNE 2013 house....

Grass looks WAY better....

My sister and I planted some nice flowers in this planter while she was here on HER mini vacation. 

(thanks for the planter Ma & Pa Hoff!)

This is the other side of the house... 

We did not have this little area tilled/leveled and hydroseeded.  We will complete the project on our own.  We are still debating whether to seed it, gravel it, or just bite the bullet and pour some concrete here.

 BEEP BEEP! Back it up again for the backyard!

Pre-Flood June 2011

I don't have a whole picture of the backyard preflood that I can find right now.  

However to the left there WAS a shed...

Backyard July 2011 right after the flood

this is panned a little more to the left....

We had been working on the house for about 3 months by this point...

June 2012

And currently! June 2013

This lovely little indent is over by the big egress window. 

Possible kennel area for the dogS!

Looking out from the indented area....

This is one of our big projects for next summer.  

We will be leveling it out, adding some rock, and building a "built in" above ground fire pit.

Progress has been made! 

Hoping to get a shed back up in the fall in one of the back corners!

Busy Busy Weekend

Before...

During

Big helper

Sleepy guy

Sadie loves being outside

and she loves her new front lawn

After! Minus the gutter back up and the wooden planter

New mailbox and curb appeal

trying to tame the bees!

Seriuosly, pull out the camera and this is what the kid gives me. EVERY.TIME!

 This is his new favorite way to sit.

Calming space & shenanigans of the weekend

Chad and I spent our 5 year anniversary yesterday painting our bedroom, picking out some new sheets/pillow cases, and eating some yummy takeout.  It was a nice day and our bedroom is a much calmer space now.  

The deal was that if I didn't like the paint color that we picked we could repaint during the summer.  The color we picked reminded me of skin....skin surrounding me while I'm trying to sleep.  Our room really wasn't a very calming space.  Now it's a pretty blue/gray color and in my opinion very calming!  I love how it turned out and am excited to hang a few things up on the walls now!  It's so hard to hang pictures because we don't have too many recent pictures and want to save some space for Baby Hoff!

This is before......

This is after!...

 

We just have some touch-up painting to do around the house and trim to paint on the exterior (and if Chad get's a wild hair he wants to paint the upper part of the bathroom...but after yesterday he said he was done painting for a year..so we'll see) and the painting will finally be finished!  We hung up the first piece of decor upstairs on Friday night!  Well, we had hung it up before but it fell off the wall so we had to fix it....and now it's hanging with a nail instead of a hook =)!

Chad's off to Jamestown today to help his brother move in!  He was pretty excited to head over that way and see him =) he'll be back this evening though, so just a quick trip.

Today I'm just working on laundry and tidying up the house for our house guests that will be coming this coming weekend!  Sadie is at the beauty parlor today too...I'm excited...her not so much! Baby Hoff's room will be finished clearing out this week too so we can start decorating in there.  

I got my hairs cut on Thursday... welcome back bangs!

and Chad decided to take his beard trimmer to his on Friday night.  After a few swipes I took over....first time ever cutting hair.  He said he liked it and was pleased with my work =)

Weekend Shenanigans

Chad's dad and mom came up this past weekend to help us out.  The exterior of the house needed a little facelift.....

 Right after.....

October....

July 2 =)

Still have to do the trim (except all but 2 windows were done when we got the new casings for the windows put on!)

It's pretty much the exact same color as it was before.  How did we manage that?? We don't know.  We picked a color that looked nice and we thought it might be a little darker and more gray, didn't hold it up to the outside...and voila, we picked a good replica haha.  They taped, plastic the windows, and sprayed the whole house in one day!

Chad's mom tackled the garage. Swept the whole thing and re-orgazined the piles! I don't have a before picture...maybe they do.... They got the board off the window and the pane that was broken out was replaced  with a board for the time being and some insulation got put up in the walls too!  As soon as Chad finishes insulating a few other spots he can put the shelves up that his parents brought up and he can start REALLY organizing his piles =)

On Sunday after a nap and some lunch Chad and I tackled painting Baby Hoff's room!

We have a few blankets and other things to pull out of there still, but the painting is done!  I got the white inside trim I wanted (which is what I wanted all throughout the house) because we couldn't paint the caulking that was used to seal the window....

After seeing it Chad did agree that it looked really nice with the white trim on the inside of the window!  HA!

Next project: Painting our room and working on the white trim on the exterior!  Then it's just a little touch-up paint on other parts of the house and decorating! 

[hacienda] Updated

Do you remember back at the beginning of June when I posted this? Along with pictures of the house? and an agenda of to-do's??  Well guess what?! I'm just about finished unpacking and organizing!  Just have a few things left to go through and the office/guest room to organize a better.

I still have some projects I'd like to tackle for the kitchen.....

And a few other little things =)

our room to paint....

the nursery to paint....

we're on the hunt for a dresser again because I'm not skilled enough to fix Chad's..he took out more of the top then I thought....

garage needs to be organized (not my job...).....

Chad's man cave is now decorated (just need a black scentsy for him and to put away a few randoms)....

 

The laundry room needs to be reorganized but Chad has to help me with that....

Other than those things, I can start compiling our decor and start figuring out how to decorate this house!  We didn't ever get this far when we first moved in!!!