Home is where the Heart is...

Today is the one year anniversary that we bought our first house. We have done many projects since we bought it including painting, tiled the kitchen and bathroom floor, ripped up all the outdated carpet, put in new baseboard, replaced kitchen sink and countertops, new light fixtures, landscaped and painted the outside of the house. Whew, we definitely couldn't have done all these projects without our wonderful family! I was 6 months pregnant with Thad so I was limited to what I could do. So it was all Adam, my uncle Frank, Aunt Diana, Uncle Tony, Aunt Sue, Kathy(Adams mom), Wayne, and my parents Steve and Luci. The house was definately dated in the late 60's with the carpet, wallpaper, a bright blue bathroom which every single wall (including the ceiling) was blue and linolium which had to go! Here are some before and after pictures.

We love our little home. It fits us all for now and we have a spare room for when we have family in town. It's nice doing work on your own house knowing it's yours and not a rental. Adam likes his yard and takes very good care of it (I'm not much of a gardner). He is always out there pulling weeds, watering, mowing or pruning our rose bush. We have good neighbors which have made us feel welcomed over the last year. One of our neighbors is a retired teacher and he comes over alot to give Adam advice on our rose bush. I think he likes to come over and tell us stories about what he did that day or what he is making in his backyard. He even puts our newspaper on our front porch every morning.

It's a nice feeling pulling up in the drive way knowing that this is our home. Especially in the winter months when I don't have to scrape windows!!!!!