a new house to crawl in

Well, we moved into our house on Friday. We love living here! I want to wait until all our projects are finished and boxes unpacked before I show any pictures of us moved in- believe me, it's a mess here right now!

I have been meaning to post about the progress we made every day, but we got so busy I didn't have time. And to be honest, the whole last three weeks area pretty much a blur and I can't remember what we did, really. Here are a few pictures of the last things we did before we moved in, and you can get a sneak peek at the paint colors. I really wish my camera would do justice to these paint colors, but I know they look funny on your screen. Just trust me, it looks amazing here.

While we were working we decided we could get more done if we slept here so we could work when the kids were asleep. We brought over Hayden's mattress, Halle's pack n play, and an air mattress and some couch cushions for Derrick and me. Not the ideal sleeping situation, but it worked. Hayden did really well the first official night in his new room.


Painting the wall above the stairs was quite the project. Luckily I have a really tall husband who owns a ladder. I was still really nervous the whole time he was up there and kept begging him to use at least one hand to hold onto something. He just kept telling me that he had been standing since he was a baby so he was fine.



When we moved in we didn't have any of these. For some reason the people before us took them out, along with the light switches. Why? Maybe to be annoying? Who knows. So we had to put new ones in and guess what? I did lots of them. (yes, Derrick trusted me with something electrical. I was surprised too.) And it was fun.

Finishing up the very last painting. (Ok, not quite, but it was all downhill from here so we were excited.) And yes, we both did a lot of painting with one baby in our arms.

We really like our new ward already. I sat next to two ladies who live in our same subdivision. One of them lives just down the street. It's funny, because they bought the house that we were about to put an offer on, but found out that it had just been sold the day before. We are glad though, because we love our house and we are glad that we have some good neighbors so close by.

Halle had a crazy growth spurt in just a week or so while we moved. She got a new tooth on bottom (in addition to the one on top!) and one about to poke through. She started crawling like a pro and within a few days after that started pulling up on things. She babbles lots of new sounds which is so fun to listen to. This is such a fun age (minus the never wanting to be held or hold still during church.)