House Projects

We are getting pretty excited with all of the things that are happening in our new house, and being teachers, everything happens in the summer. Our days currently consist of waking up whenever Gilmour and Kale do, which is usually between 7 and 8am, drinking coffee, reading, and making lists. We are the king and queen of making lists. Currently Scott has a list for what we'll be doing next week and another list for what he needs to buy, and finally a list for what he's doing today. It is safe to say that this household can't stand being bored! Here's some updates on what we're doing this summer:

Project #1
Today we will finish the decorating for the basement. I have spent days going through pictures, and looking for frames to fit the wall and have finally found a verse to put on it as well. So this......

....will hopefully look a million times better by 10pm tonight!

Project #2
My parents fly in Monday and we're currently waiting for the dry wall to be delivered this morning so we have everything for Dad and Scott's big project. They are taking out a wall between the master bedroom and a spare room in order to make the master bigger, as our furniture doesn't all fit.

I cannot wait to get rid of the green in 2 weeks!!

This also means filling in a door and running the tv wires to another wall. I am so thankful to have a husband that is "handy," because I'm definitely not, but he has everything ready to go for Monday and is pretty excited about it. I'm excited to see how my 2 favourite men in the world work together!

Project #3
One room that has come together really well is our main living room:

The piano completely helps with the decorating situation, but I still have one more major project to do on the wall over the piano. Mom and Dad are bringing all of our wedding pictures with them, which is pretty exciting! Being 2 provinces over from the photographer has made picking up our package difficult, so Mom and Dad have done it for us. I can't wait to have them in order to finish the project for this room, and so people can see them.

We picked up a coffee table for this room on Thursday when we were in Saskatoon, and I think it just completes the room. Partially because trying to read and drink coffee in the morning and show attention to our 2 dogs that always want to sit on top of us makes it difficult when there's nowhere to set your coffee. I was emphatic that it had a shelf underneath for our bibles and magazines to sit on, and after searching, we found the perfect one in Wal-Mart!

And to top it off, I woke up Friday morning to this:

Scott's sister and brother-in-law sent us this frame as a housewarming gift - he certainly knows how to make his wife feel special in the most simple ways!