Way too long...

It's been way too long since we've last updated our blog... and a lot has happened! So to start, here are a few of the latest updates to our house (these were all projects we completed before the wedding which was July 18th).

We managed to almost completely finish the fence, we just need to put in a couple gates still, but it is looking great and we are feeling really good that we were able to do it all on our own (with some help from friends and family of course).

I also decided before the wedding I really wanted to re-paint the green trim on the outside of our house of course =). This may seem really odd but the paint was peeling pretty bad in some places and I wanted everything to look great before friends and family from out of town came and saw our house for the first time. So Matt patiently set up the ladder for me and helped me with the electric sander.... we got all the wood trim on the front of the house sanded and then I re-painted it the same matching green color. I also touched up the back of the house (since I was already up on the roof!). If really does look 20x better though!

That's me on the roof painting some trim on the back of the house. =)

The Yard - Part I

We have been working on lots of "Yard projects" over the last few weeks...we are quite ambitious and are trying to get them all done before the wedding July 18th... =)

This is a view of our back yard from our back door. You can see at least half the yard was covered in gravel where the previous home-owners would park their RV. We are going to be digging up much of the gravel, putting down new dirt, and laying sod so we will have a larger grassy backyard.

This is also looking out our back door but to the right side. This faces the main road (Barton) so we are eager to put in a fence to give us some privacy and cut down on the noise. We got a few estimates from fence companies to fence in our whole backyard and they all came in at about $3k. Although it'd be really nice to have someone do it all in one day... we decided we can do this project ourselves and it is only costing us about $1,ooo (cedar posts, wood, and cement from Home Depot, as well as a few other supplies and lots of back breaking labor)... what a deal!
Same side of the house from the opposite view.
The "Old Fence" coming down (calling it a fence is being generous... it was really random pieces of old wood...). It'll make great firewood.