We're moved!

It's official! We have moved into our new house. I finally got my computer up and running so I could update the blog.

We closed and moved in on Friday the 15th. I had to get aboard Brynn's bus that morning to tell Don the driver that there would be no need any longer to wait for Brynn on our corner. I could hardly make it through the conversation which I'm sure comes as no shock to anyone. I know Clara and I will miss coming out to wave at him in the mornings. I didn't feel too emotional at the end, other than that. By the time I walked out the front door on Friday morning, none of our stuff was really there anymore and I was more excited to get into the new house than I was feeling sad. 

And the Friday after we moved in, I received the below text from the buyers of our house. They were just the type of people we could have hoped to love our house after we left.

We had an excellent moving crew and great help! Thanks to Holly for snapping these pics of the last load out and first load in at the new. Thankfully we were able to move all our stuff into the detached garage at the new place prior to closing. That helped immensely as I don't know how we would have coordinated it otherwise.

I still don't have a lot of pictures yet as we've been busy getting things put away and settled, of course. But, I hawked this pic from the online listing to show the front of the house. We are on a nice little cul de sac  way south Fargo. University Drive runs past our back yard in which we are on the opposite side of University across from a cemetery. I told Dana how convenient that was that we can just hop the road when the time comes. ;-)

 This is the toy explosion area, I mean, toy/play area for the girls. I hope to get some type of cabinet or shelf to better organize their stuff. This is downstairs in the family room; the other side is where we have our TV and couch set up.

The back of the house faces East so I have been enjoying the pretty sunrise in the mornings. This is looking out our kitchen window.

 And another one from this morning.




Sorry for the weird light reflections; these were all taken just with my cell phone. We have begun to update some things in the kitchen beginning with a couple lights and a couple appliances. Next we'll try to move on to resurfacing the cabinets somehow, updating the fridge and range and changing the blinds to curtains.

 I honestly think the house could have been a heap and Dana would have bought this place just for the detached garage alone. :-) Sadly most of my pictures are taken at night! So, it's difficult to see some of the details, but this is on our deck facing the backyard/East.

Dana's mom came back this week and got several rooms painted. I will have to post some more before and after ones after I take some of the new paint. We updated Clara's room, our bedroom, a little bit in the office and the spare bedroom and then this bathroom which is downstairs. Well, I should say Holly updated them. Thanks again, Holly. It all turned out great!

The fam on our new front porch!

Photo Credit: Holly