New Pictures

We're almost finished with the house!! Go look at our progress in the photo album.

Work in progess

Well, I'll update pictures and give more explanations later but for now here's a quick update of the past few days.

Please do not ever paint over wallpaper border, then think to yourself that looks silly, so you just put up border over it.  That's exactly what happened in one of the bedrooms at the house.  What was going to be an easy removal and paint job has now turned into a work in progress because everything came off ...even down to the texture

Also...i have decided that texturing the ceiling a more attractive texture is a job for professionals, not Megan and Stephen and their helpers.

We had both sets of parents and a friend come over to help today and we got so much done.  Thanks to everyone for your gracious help!!!!!!

The mess we're making...

Well...we closed on our house on the 24th and everything went well.  Unfortunately the sellers weren't the greatest and left a lot of things undone in the house for us to deal with.  Random stuff in the shed, a leaky faucet, dead tree, and dustmites and other nasty things.  Despite all of this, we do have a month to move in and we are really excited to own our first home.  It's kind of surreal.  We ate dinner there on Friday night, we took our picnic basket and a rug and ate on the floor.  It felt like we house sitting for an empty house!

Today (saturday) we gave tours to our parents and started the popcorn removal process.  Being newbies to this we had no idea how easy or hard or messy it would be. Luckily we found this really great tool that has done wonders to minimize the mess.  (see pics)  By the end...the whole room was covered in plastic and with the door shut, it all got sucked to walls.  It was very odd to be in there.

Luckily, to our suprise, the popcorn removal was relatively  easy...and won't take as long as we thought it would.  However, we still have to repair some small gouges, 

prime and paint.  But we'll take a poll...should we texture the ceiling, or just paint it?  Of course if we texture, that will be hired out.

Now that we're actually doing stuff these days...I'll have something to post on this blog.  So keep posted for the many projects that will be happening this month.

New stuff!

I may have grown up in the techno stage of things, but I sure can't keep up with this blogging stuff. But I do have some new pictures uploaded to the album for your viewing pleasure. It's not any sort of event really just some stuff that's happened lately in our little world over here. Enjoy.

Glorified Tomato Soup

Well, I haven't made too many meals yet, but I managed to make the first dud last night. Chicken Tortilla Soup. It involved cheese soup, fiesta nacho cheese soup, tomato soup, chicken broth, and chicken. I'm sure if I had some stuff to make it more heartier it would have tasted better. This was a failure. However, I'm willing to try again is someone has a better chicken tortilla soup recipe that doesn't involve quite so many campbell soups.

Wedding Pictures

Wedding pictures are now up online.

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I hope you enjoy them as much as we did!

Honeymoon

Well, I have finally had a free moment to download our honeymoon pictures. We took close to 350 so it took a long time for them to download! But don't worry, we separated them so each day is an album.

This is in Portland in the Casco Bay. Ironically these two small boats/ferrys are party of Casco Bay Lines. They literally carry passengers and freight to and from the surrounding small islands. We took the Sunset Run, a 2.5 hour trip out to the islands and back. It was very nice but really cold. We spent most of the trip underneath on the lower deck, and only briefly braved the cold wind.

Walking along the shore path in Bar Harbor. It has been there forever. People live in these awesome houses and they graciously let visitors walk on their property to see the coast.


This picture is the view from our Schooner ride. The Margaret Todd is the only 4 masted Schooner still in operation. It's hard to imagine that the bay was littered with boats like that at one point. Crazy stuff.

Fresh lobster. A very interesting taste, a little salty, and quite chewy.

Now, you definitely do not get these kind colors anywhere in Oklahoma. It was absolutely amazing. Around every corner it would look completely different. Sometimes there would be a lot of green and then a random bright red tree.

View of Eagle Lake in Acadia National Park. This is actually a fresh water lake because the island in which the park is on was actually created by glaciers.


And of course you can't go the east coast without seeing a lighthouse. This is the Portland Head light. We stopped by the see it on our way out of town and it was raining and everything. The waves were crashing up to the rocky edge and the lighthouse was sounding it's fog horn. It was awesome.

There's a preview of our trip, but be sure to look at the albums for more great pictures and some video too!