Homeowners!!

WE DID IT! We signed 1800 documents today and now have a place to call our own!

A cute little three bedroom house just perfect for our needs.  We were really blessed to find this house in such a short time and we got a really good deal, so all in all we are really happy campers (I say campers, since we have no bed and are literally sleeping on the floor :) )

 Just some extra pics of the house :)

Free-ninety nine

We inherited some furniture from "the Old Lady" and needless to say it was a bit out dated. Thankfully I'm more of a pack rat than Brody because I decided to salvage the furniture rather than throw it away.  Here's what we started with, "U-G-L-Y You ain't got no alibi!"

After yet ANOTHER trip to Home Depot we started out removing all the drawers and handles from the drawers, even the mirror had to come off.  We sanded all the surfaces and then used a combination primer/paint to make over these "has been's".  The handles were probably the most work. Since the furniture was so out-dated the correct size of handles to fit in the existing holes was hard to find, but we managed to find the only set of handles that would fit and thankfully we liked how they looked.

A few coats of paint later...

Not bad, not bad. For a price tag of free + some paint and handles I think we got a pretty good deal.

You've got mail

We needed a mail box so we headed down to Home Depot to see what are options were. We had originally wanted a brick mail box, but we quickly discovered that brick and mortar is QUITE pricey :) So we down-graded to a standard wood post mail box. There were many options to choose from and we settled on a black box with a large square post. The original color of the wood was pretty plain so we picked out a dark stain to spice it up. We found some silver numbers to nail into the post and give it even more character. Since we needed to keep the post in the ground for many years to come we added a couple fifty pound bags of cement to our home depot bill. 2 hours later we left home depot (it's pretty easy to get distracted in that store, especially when you've just moved into a new house)
The next day I woke up and went to work at Ticona and Brody went to work in the garage. By lunch time Brody had sanded, puttied, painted and screwed the box on to the post. We picked a location for the silver numbers and Brody finished putting it all together.
After work we strolled down to our helpful neighbor's house and borrowed several shovels, a rock crusher, and a wheelbarrow. The digging was harder going than we imagined. I'd like to say I helped with the digging, but about 4 inches into the soil it is clay/rock and Brody is much more equipped for heavy digging :) I did hold the tape measure down the hole though, so Brody knew how much to dig.

We finally got the mailbox in the ground and poured the cement around it. I held it in place for about 10-15min while the cement dried and Brody put the grass back around the base. Voila! We've got mail!