One Year

Last Sunday marked the one year anniversary of moving into our "new blue house."  I can't believe it's been a whole year...but the Moose Mountain house (our "old red house" in Emily's terms) feels like another lifetime.  We still talk regularly about how much we love this house and this location, how we haven't seen another house in the last year we'd have rather bought.  We feel so lucky!  I still love that I can vacuum the whole house (except the finished basement) from one outlet.  It's very manageable for this housework-averse girl who likes to be in a clean house!  Even the yard doesn't take too long to mow, but has lots of space for little girls to run, and woods to tromp in.  I could go on.. the deck!  The swingset!   The short flat driveway that can park 9 cars.  We do laugh that after I was so keen on buying a house with a two-car garage, we've since become a one-car family.  More room for storage and painting projects. :)  We hope to call this place home for a long time.

The house was move-in ready a year ago, but we've still done a lot of work making it our own.  We hired someone to do the big stuff: a major kitchen face-lift, finishing the partially finished basement playroom & guest room (so thankful to have all that space when our wonderful church community group including sixteen children under the age of 5 descends every two weeks!) and building a mudroom in the back of the garage.

Since then it's been all DIY. I've been working on painting just about every surface in the house, and making no-sew curtains (thank you pinterest).  I am one room away from having all bright white doors & trim!  Yippee!  Just the girls' room left to go.   Right now I'm in the middle of staining our dining room set, and Alasdair is building a path from the driveway to the mudroom door.  I'm hoping in the next year we will (do fewer house projects!) finish decorating some rooms, re-do my office, and tackle the neglected flower beds. Our neighbor's house is going on the market soon, so it might be time to up the curb appeal.:)

You can see an album of house pictures here.