Getting There

We are moved (mostly). There is still some stuff left at the other house. But here, we are slowly getting settled. We have been here for 2 nights. There is so much stuff to unpack and find a place for. I am trying, and really, I'm not getting along too bad. I need someone to help me organize the kitchen though, haha! Someone to tell me what the most efficient way to store everything is and how to store things to maximize the space. The kids seemed to have settled in just fine. Neither of them missed a beat with sleep.
There's more, but since we just got our internet hooked up, I wanted to give a quick update. I still have lots to do!

Project 52, Week 9

We are ready to move. The house is just waiting on us now. We should be in by the weekend. We aren't going to kill ourselves moving, but we aren't going to drag it out either. We will get there!
In the meantime, here is my week 9 photo plus 2 others. I took pictures of the sunrise the other morning. It was pretty.

Quickly

I am going back up today to finish the cleaning. Today is the day to deal with all of the dust in the dining and kitchen. Hopefully we can start moving on Monday and be done by the end of the week. I almost forgot about my project 52 picture for the week. But it was a pretty sunrise again today so I snapped a few of it. Hopefully I can get that up tomorrow.
That is all for now.

Craziness

It is almost 70 degrees outside right now. Crazy! In February in Ohio we should be around 40 some degrees I think. It is sooooo nice, but a bit odd. I am so ready for spring!
The flooring is all done in the house. All I need to do up there now is clean before we move stuff in. I got the living room done this morning while Dylan was at preschool. I am hoping to get most of the rest of it done tomorrow. We'll see. Its going to take a while for the kitchen and dining room. There was a lot of dust when they put those floors down. So there is dust everywhere now. Our living room furniture is being delivered in the morning. I imagine that within the next week, we will be moved.
Not much else has been going on. It was a rather uneventful weekend. I will be glad when we get all of this done. Once we get out of this house though, I have to come back down here and clean this place up so we can sooner rather than later, rent it out.
I took 'before' pictures today of the empty rooms up at the house. Maybe after we get everything in there I will share the before and afters.
On a side note, Ethan has been napping horribly. After less than an hour, he is awake....ugh. Someone want to babysit for a week...or a month? Haha!

Week 8 Photo

I took a few pictures throughout the week hoping they would be decent enough. But none of them were. I just haven't felt like making much of an effort. So I went up to our soon to be new house to clean the kitchen since the floor is mostly done. By the way, I didn't get much done. I got to sneezing so bad. It got to the point where it just wouldn't stop. I don't know what was irritating my nose, but it was awful. My throat hurts so bad right now from all of the sneezing. Anyway, I snapped a few pictures from the back of the house before we left. Here's one.

What else has been going on...I don't know. But it feels like I've been busy. Maybe I have maybe I haven't. Eh, probably not. Even though it feels like it. Earlier in the week, I made a salad dressing made to taste like Olive Garden's salad dressing. I must say it is pretty close and tastes really good. If you are interested in giving it a shot, check out the post from The Country Cook and she will tell you exactly what to do! It doesn't take much time. Most of the stuff you probably have in your pantry already.
Have a nice weekend!

So what's been going on?

Its only Tuesday, but I barely remember what happened over the weekend. Oh! Ok now I got it. If I repeat myself, sorry. I don't remember the last thing I posted. Friday evening didn't go exactly like we had planned, but I did manage to get out of the house, kid free and have dinner with a good friend. We sat for a couple of hours just talking. When was the last time I did that? No idea. It was a nice relaxing dinner. Saturday the boys and I went over to mom's for a bit. She needed a little help moving some stuff around. I know we did more that day, but it seems to have faded from my brain already. Sunday, Ryan and his dad finished getting all of the carpet tore up in the kitchen and dining room at the 'new' house.
Right now, the laminate has been put down in the dining room and they are working on the kitchen. So far the dining room looks nice. We finally picked out our stove.We are having gas lines installed in the kitchen up there for a couple of reasons. One being a gas stove. I can't wait to cook on a gas stove. So we had kind of been putting off on getting a stove until we got to the point of moving in. But I guess the gas company wants the appliance to be there when they come to install the lines.
Dylan didn't have school on Monday because it was President's Day. Honestly, I don't get why kids are out of school on Presidents Day. They should have school. I mean, if anything, teachers could take a break from regular curriculum and teach the kids about these presidents. Wouldn't that honor them more than staying home from school? So why in the world are the kids not in school that day?? Thankfully tomorrow he is back to school.
Aside from Ryan's gun safe, the upstairs is all packed up and empty. If I had a place downstairs to stack the drawers from the dressers, then they would be down here right now. I think that on Monday they are going to start installing the carpet. So once they get some rooms done, I can start moving some things. I just don't know where I am going to put everything! I really need some organization help. I am not good at being organized. If someone were to show me how to properly organize all of my stuff, then I would be set.

Week 7 of 52

I took a couple of shots from the snow last week. It was crazy cold, so I didn't go out in it. Instead, I took them from inside the house. I hate cold windy weather. Today though, it is sunny and fairly warm. For February at least! Anyway, here is this week's shot.

I thought it was pretty how the snow sat so nicely on top of the branches on the tree.
And here is another one just because. The birds were huddled on the tree with their feathers poofed out. It looked like they were trying to stay warm. For the mood though, I changed it to black and white.