We’re Hitched!

Well we have been newlyweds for a little over 2 weeks now. It has been great so far, but still very busy! We can’t wait for the day where we can just sit back, relax, and do nothing! I have been busy photographing weddings with Travis (Broken Flash Photography) on the weekends, so my Saturdays are shot. Every night it seems like we are running here and there to get stuff done. We still have a bit of work to do on the house, but not much considering what we have done so far.

First off, I want to share a few pictures from our wedding day:

Our wedding was wonderful, everything went as planned, and the weather was great!

Now on to the house updates:

The night after the wedding:Haha, not much there!

Mom and Dad were off work on the Monday after, and helped me move some more stuff up to the house, including all of the shower and wedding gifts. Yes, my shower was in August, and everything was still in the box! Candace came over and helped take everything out of their boxes to get ready to be washed and put away (which wouldn’t happen for over a week). Here is how far we got (my living room looked like this until this past Friday night): Halloween: STILL waiting for countertops to be installed. We walked down to the craft shop and picked up some place mats and matching napkins and valances for the window and back door to the laundry room.

Last Tuesday- Countertops installed!  This is the desk area that is in our kitchen. The bottom drawer has space for hanging folders. I can’t wait to organize the bills! HA!

We had to wait a day for my brother to install the sink because he has apprentice school on Tuesday nights. So, Wednesday he came over after work and was getting ready to install this sink:

Well, turns out there was a small crack in it where the faucet hole is, so we ran up to home depot, returned it, and bought a different one. Since the one we had before was special order, it would have taken 3-4 days to come in, so we just got one in stock, and we actually like it better! Finished product! Well almost, the sink that we ended up installing has 4 holes, and we only bought a 3 hole set, so Josh is going to order us a matching soap dispenser to fill the last hole on the right. Right now I have a bottle of hand soap sitting on top of it and you can’t even notice the hole.

The Friday after the wedding, we had Dish network installed. I was browsing through the music channels last week and found the Country Holiday station (FYI its channel 94 and 965 on Dish)! YES! You can guarantee that this station will be blaring in our house until New Year’s!

While listening to Country Holiday, I got my closet all put together, finally! I love how big my closet is, but it goes back quite a ways beyond the doors on both sides so some of the stuff is hard to get to.

 

I had a visitor one night last week. My BFF Candace and I were planning our big shopping trip on Friday to shop for Christmas decorations. Good thing I didn’t take a picture of everything I bought! Christmas decorations pretty much consume the “baby” room right now!

  

Here is one of the wedding gifts from Craig’s mom, a bench with “HICK” burned into it, and it has an “H” on each side. It was made out of old barn wood. We love it and it is going to go in the laundry room, right by the back door, once the room gets cleaned!  

Candace and Lisa both helped me wash dishes yesterday, I’m glad they did because I wouldn’t be done if they hadn’t helped! All dishes are washed and put away in the cabinets! Here is what the kitchen looks like now. We still need to put the backsplash up and put the cabinet door on the pots and pans cabinet, it had to be fixed when we bought the house. Oh yeah, I guess I have to fill that wine rack in the corner for when visitors come over, too!

Craig finally had time to put the living blinds up yesterday morning before we went to church. I’m really excited about this because our neighbors are pretty close, and we live on MAIN STREET. Still need to put the bathroom, kitchen, and laundry room blinds up, then buy curtains. Someday.

 

Last Thursday we made a big purchase, at a small price. We got an “open box” deal on a really expensive TV from Best Buy. It came from the home theatre section of the store, and it was on display. Nothing is wrong with it and we really got a steal! I guess it pays to know people who know people!

I wanted to share a few pictures of our baby lamb Annabelle! She was born the Thursday morning before our wedding, so she will be three weeks this coming Thursday. We are bottle feeding her until she is old enough to eat normal sheep food, then she will go back out to the farm.

Here she is the day she was born:  

At a week old:

And here she is 2 days ago, she is starting to follow me around when I let her out, and she followed me up to the house, so we fed her inside.

Hopefully we’ll have more updates later this week or next!