Here are some picures from the last 4 months.
Basement before pics:
Basement after pictures
That was the largest project...more pictures to come soon!
Monday, May 9, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
4 months later....
Well we have officially been homeowners for 4 months now and we are loving every moment of being homeowners :-) I love decorating the house and moving furniture places and rearranging and hanging photos. We got everything painted that we wanted painted and almost everything is put away :-)
We have added to our family since moving in. At the end of February/beginning of March we adopted a dog, Patch. He is a White German Shorthair Pointer and he is so much fun! He has ALOT of energy. He is 3 years old and is potty trained (big plus for us!) So now we are a family of 3...Pete, Patch, and I. Here is a photo of Lil 65lb Pup :-)
I have a ton of before and after pictures that I will put in another blog...maybe I will just do another blog entry of nothing but pictures :-) We'll see.
We have already experienced some of the "joys" of being homeowners. About a month and a half after we moved in we noticed that our hot water kept going out...and of course it would happen when we both actually had to get ready and look decent for some reason (Being that I work from home you can imagine how many times I actually get up and do my hair! haha) Well after freaking out that we may have to purchase a new water heater to replace the only 2 year old water heater we have we called the warranty company and they suggested we go buy a $7 part and see if that fixes the problem before going to buy a new water heater...so we did and POOF it is fixed! woo hoo!! So we got lucky and we haven't had a problem since with the water heater.
Another joy of being a homeowner is yard work...now neither Pete or I mind doing yardwork...he enjoys being outside and working on the yard and I enjoy being outside and getting a tan while doing so. We both enjoy mowing the yard and trying to make it look nice....now if you have seen our front yard you are probably laughing about the previous comment...our front yard looks completely and utterly DEAD...the previous owners put in "Bermuda Grass" and bermuda grass is not common around here because of the weather but it saves alot of money on watering because bermuda grass only comes in like 4 months out of the year...the rest of the time it looks "dead" so I'm pretty sure in the fall we will be prepping the yard for new grass (I leave that to Pete since he is the Trugreen man!) We also have done a TON of spring cleaning outside and around the house. The previous owners did not trash the inside of the house...however...they did leave the outside looking a mess!! They left random junk in the garage and around the house and we have cleaned up almost 98% off all the junk...there are a few odds and ends we are still working on cleaning up but it is coming along well.
We love being homeowners. Our mortgage is less then what we paid in rent and with our bills in the house we are still paying less then what we paid in rent and bills at the apartment so that is exciting. We also love living in Blair. People ask if we miss living in Omaha and the answer is not really. We really enjoy Blair and the community :-) We do miss living close to some great people in Omaha but we still get to see almost all of them at least one or twice a week so thats nice :-) We also have some great friends in Blair that live within a 2-3 mile radius of us in all directions so that is great too!
I promise to post more on the blog soon!
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