Our House: The Project List

It has been one week since Brandon and I have become official home owners.  We signed the papers Aug 30th, the day before the deadline.  Talk about cutting it close!  Since then, we've steadily been making a long list of projects that we need/want for the house and yard.  Brandon's got the grass nearly resurrected.  Just in time for it to hibernate for the winter. :)  And I've been working on the inside of the house.  I think almost everything has its place except for a couple boxes and all the pictures.  Those, of course, go last.  I've put some up just for the sake of keeping them out of Kayla's reach.  I was doing just that to a set of orchid canvas pictures.  There were nails in the kitchen walls so I put them there.  And as I was looking I decided I really liked them there.  I really liked the colors, so I'm going to use them for the walls in the kitchen.  I'm so excited to finally figure out what I'm going to paint in there!  It's been bugging me for a while.  I don't know when we'll paint everything yet; it's on the lower end of the project list.

   

The biggest project that's happening soon is the driveway.  For those who have seen our driveway, you know it's a bit of a mess.  It's mostly gravel with some spots of random cement. We're having a friend from our old ward come in and fix it up.  By the end, we should have a nice long cement driveway with a patio.  Brandon's super excited, and I'll be glad to finally put my car in the garage.

All in all, life's staying pretty busy, but we're happy.  Brandon has a lot of projects lined up, and I'm always busy trying to keep up with Kayla.  She's loving the space in the new house.  Her favorite thing to do is to push stuff around the wood floor.  So cute! 

Here's a picture of Kayla helping Daddy put frost spray paint on the bathroom window.  She got up there ALL by herself! Silly Girl.

Brandon got a video of Kayla helping me weed the garden. She's such a big help!

By the end of the day, we were pretty tired. Kayla was happy throwing dirt and getting into everything, but she was a trooper, a dirty trooper.

So I think our yard is slowly coming together.  Hopefully by doing all this hard work now, we'll be that much more ahead next summer.