After months of sitting on the ground..

Since we've been in the house in April we've been without any furniture in our living room.  Blank walls, tan carpet and ZERO furniture.  We've been saving and looking at couches every month and we've finally found the ones we wanted and they were on sale!  After some visits to Ikea, Costco and a store call Front Room we've got the whole room furnished and everything was on sale or Brody worked his magic and got it to be on "sale" ;)

Here's our entry way when we first moved in

Hall way

This is actually a picture of the bed room, but it illustrates
what our living room looked like before

Our accent wall that Brody painted. He did an amazing job!

Our reading nook. Still need to add to the book
collection though ;)

We put a mirror over the stair to really bring the room together.
What a job to hang it though!

New couches and end table. Brody found that lamp for $10 bucks, what a deal?
(oh don't forget the nice accent dog toy on the ground)

Here's the whole room. Looks like we'll need to put a light
 behind the plant to really make it stand out

Better view of the coffee (or should I say hot chocolate?) table

Finally HOME SWEET HOME

The Mountain owned us!

We got new mountain bikes for Christmas and we've been waiting for the weather to warm up so we could really break them in. This weekend the weather was beautiful (ok, 45 degrees isn't exactly warm, but compared to the 19 degrees on Monday it was amazing!)  We first took the bikes to the golf course and road up and down the cart paths with Deja in tow. It was a blast and we had a good work out while we were at it.  So today, when the weather was just as nice, we decided to tackle something closer resembling a mountain.




We piled into the truck and drove a few miles from our house.  From the beginning, we should have known it was going to rough going. The snow was just starting to melt so the ground was soggy and MUDDY!!  Biking through the flat part in the mud was exhausting, and we kept hoping for a nice downhill path, but we never found it.  A few minutes into the ride we hit the steepest hill I'd ever seen but we weren't quitters.  We headed up and quickly learned we were not in shape for this.  We were sinking into the mud several inches and walking the bike just as much as we were riding, so needless to say it was what real fun is :)

The top of the mountain! (well at least at the time, we hoped it was)

Working my way up. All that snow made the ground impossible to bike in

When we finally hit a downward slope we were so excited we just went for it. Well, I have some nice bruises and scrapes as reminders to not try that again.

Finally some actual bike riding

The view from the hill was amazing. The picture doesn't do it justice