Finally Home!!!!

Oh my gosh what a week (and then some) it has been. We were supposed to close July 20th but due to a silly complication, our closing was delayed repeatedly and we didn't close until late in the day on the 25th... which left just one day to get a bunch of things done in preparation for moving day!!

As soon as we had keys I looked all through the house... and in the window well of the basement found a tiny little bunny that had fallen in! I'm glad I saw him in time to save him. We let him go in the front yard (there are LOTS of bunnies in our neighborhood). That's our mortgage lady petting the bunny lol.

The first thing we did after closing was set up our front porch with the new furniture and enjoy some Starbucks on our new porch. It was something we had really been looking forward to and was a little welcome home celebration to us.

We brought lots of things over to the house ourselves, loose items mostly, since we were only moving two blocks... and had to clear out our whole bedroom for moving day. The big day was long and tiring, and we had movers!! LOL but just watching them and decided where everything should go was a chore in itself. We moved from three places into one. We had half my grandma's basement filled up, a storage unit, and  lot at my dad's house. Luckily almost all of it is here now and there has been more than enough room for everything.

It is ME after all, so of course this is what I provided for the movers:

It took 3 guys 9 hours and 2 trucks to finish our move. I was scared to look around the house because I thought for sure it would be full. We breathed a sigh of relief when we saw our basement is still super open and we don't have all that much down there!

We have been setting up what we can here and there, putting new furniture together, unpacking a few boxes. It's only been a little over 24 hours since we moved in so there is TONS to do.  I will try to update often about progress as we settle in!!

Here's a little sneak peek at our bedroom:

I've logged 15,000+ steps per day on my FitBit the last 4-5 days or so..... I have been going non stop!!!

I know I announced on Facebook but not sure if I had a chance here on the blog... Ian has to start working the overnight shift. We just found out a week ago and now he starts tomorrow night and will be working 10pm-7am. Sucks :( We just moved in and have only had 1 night here. Now he has to stay up tonight and sleep tomorrow in preparation for his first night on the new shift. Things are so crazy right now!!

More SOON!

House Stuff, Projects and A Lovely Day

So I haven't been on the computer much this week because I developed an eye twitch. It seemed to be brought on by using the computer a lot (like when I was setting up the blog here!)... it started Saturday and it was so bad on Sunday I just kind of boycotted the computer this whole week except for a little tiny bit here and there. However my eye just keeps twitching. So now I'm thinking it's just stress and not really related to the computer. So screw it, I'm just going to use the computer anyway :)

So I'm playing catch up now to update on my week.


HOUSE UPDATE:


The closing is supposed to be tomorrow... but at this point it's looking like that isn't going to happen. There was some big delay due to a name being wrong on the appraisal and they just can't get it done in time. Most likely we won't get to close until Monday :( But it's ALMOST here!!!

On Sunday, I finally finished the Fish Ripple Blanket for my friend Ryan. It was pretty much done before except for the border... now it's 100% done :)

I can't send it to him until August because he's away in another state on assignment this month. I can't wait to send it to him!

I've also continued working on my knitted shawl when I hang out with Amber. Here's my progress so far:

I'm a little disappointed in this, I just don't think I like it in the multicolor yarn. But my friend Jessica really likes it, so it may become a gift for her :)

Ian and I were at Costco the other day and saw this gigantic teddy bear. I've never seen one this big!! We had no reason to get it but... isn't it cute?

Then we saw this amazing bed-in-a-bag type of bedding set that is EXACTLY what we have been looking for - naturey/leafy, white background, several shades of green and lots of pieces at a good price! We bought it for our new bedroom :)

Just love it!! And another new project on the horizon - I'm going to knit a basketweave blanket for the bed. I bought 20 skeins of sage green that goes perfectly with this. I'm sure I'll need more than 20 but it's a good start.

It will be a BIG project. But it's started... we shall see when it gets finished :)

Today I spent the day with Jessica and her twin girls who are 9. First we took a little trip to Starbucks which was great and went to Ace to buy some jars... she had a LOT of buttons and wanted to sort them into the jars by color :) We all helped:

Later I taught Sarah some knitting. She picked it up SO fast and it was so much fun watching her learn. I think in about a week she'll be better at it than me :)

Meanwhile, Theresa was weaving potholders and she was sweet enough to make me one!!!

Isn't it adorable? I told her I don't have any (my dad does but we really don't lol) and that I'll use this in my new house :) I even used it tonight when I took dinner out of the oven... the other one is my dad's :-P

It was such a nice day spent with them. Jessica's already a great friend but getting to know her girls and spend time with them is really great. Do I get to be a mom soon?! Oh I hope so.

House first, then kids ;)

The New Blog Style

So I have divided up my blog into separate parts. You guys know I have done this many ways, many times, and I just never seem to know what to do with my blogs. Basically this blog is now my "main" blog, on which I will post pretty much everything - EXCEPT weight loss stuff, which is all now back on my original "Health & Happiness" blog. I also have a knit/crochet blog and a digi scrap blog. I have linked to everything across the top of the blogs.... each blog is separate, but they can all be easily accessed from any blog. You can follow and/or subscribe to as many blogs as you like, or just one if that's all you are interested in. This just makes the most sense for me as I want to be a part of the fitness community, but they don't always want to read everything else... and people who may want to just see what I'm up to may not want to read the weight loss stuff.... plus even though it's not a secret or anything, it's just not what I want everybody always focusing on when they visit my blog.
It will also allow me to expand more in the knit/crochet blog community and the scrapping community, so that those people will see a blog along their interests. If someone chooses to come follow my everyday life blog from there, great. But they don't have to.
 
I hope you are all ok with this! If you have been following this blog for weight loss purposes, you will want to go back to following the Health & Happiness blog.

Now that I've got this all set up I'm going to be getting caught up on LOTS of things that should have been posted to my blogs! I will probably post things on the dates they should have been - not as new - so if you're interested you may want to go backward and check things out.

Thanks guys :) XO

Made by Amber

Another amazing hand-made gift from my lovely friend Amber, who is a way better knitter than me :)

She made me these absolutely GORGEOUS cabled fingerless mitts:

I don't even know if I could make these.... and if I could, it would take me a month. I watched her make the 2nd mitt in just one night while we knitted together!

I absolutely LOVE them. They are part of a whole set (mitts, hat, scarf) she is making for me to wear on a trip this fall. I am so lucky! But I'm not waiting til October to wear them. I'm so cold when I do computer work at Starbucks and they are my perfect new companion:

Potluck in Amberland

Amber and I joined a ladies' group in the Denver area and have been going to a few different events. Last month I hosted a recipe-sharing potluck... and this time it was Amber's turn to host it!

I got there a little early and took some photos of some pretty flowers in her yard as well as her cat Bernard who was just chillin'

Only 3 other people showed up (better than the 2 at mine at least!) but it turned out to be a lot of fun, a lot of laughs!! Good food and good company :) And silly Amberz taking silly pictures hehe:

After the other ladies left, Erin stayed - we met her at my pot luck and she got together with us one day to start learning some knitting. She decided to join us for some knitting after the pot luck and learn a little bit more. It was fun to have her hang out with us :)

Amber started on the set of mitts she's making me... oh man am I excited! They are going to be gorgeous!

On the way home I was treated to a GORGEOUS sunset on my drive. Great end to a great day :)

Miss Muffin

Found this little Phoebe muffin in the bed this morning. She just loves to come and snuggle up in the mornings. She melts my heart!

St Elmo Road Trip

Ian & I had visited St Elmo briefly on a 4x4 trip a few years ago. We wanted to spend time in this awesome antique store there, but the schedule didn't permit and I had sprained my ankle really badly at the time. We have always talked about going back, but with our temporary living situations and so many things in storage, what was the point? Now that we know we are about to more into a permanent home, we decided to finally take the 3 1/2 hour drive ... a fun road trip day, antiquing and photographing the ghost town!

Waddles is always riding shotgun for road trips and this time was no exception:

We stopped at the Spyderco store on the way. I wanted a pink Squeak ever since hubby told me about it. I had no idea I was going to walk out of the store with 3 new knives. And it was all my idea. What has hubby done to me?!

The haul.... pink Squeak on top. 2nd is pink Cricket which I already owned (and LOVE)... below that is my new carbon fiber Cricket, and lastly a Honeybee.

Finally we got on the road for real. Ahhhh the wide open road. We just love road trips, especially in the mountains!

Of course I had to stop and get a photo of my Cricket:

When we got to St Elmo, we spent a couple of hours perusing the awesome store. They have a small indoor store, but most of the goodies are outside!

They always have lots of hummingbirds hanging around too :) We found some great things for our house, but don't really have pictures of them yet, other than this awesome old window we brought home:

Once we get settled in I'll have to do a post showcasing the things we bought and where they ended up in our house :)

After shopping we spent some time just looking around the town and taking photos. It's so charming. It's all ghost town now but it is kept up. You can't go in any of the buildings though.

We had a really fun time. So did Waddles!!

We liked it so much we've already decided we should do this every year and come home with a few new treasures :)