Welcome to our soon to be beautiful home!

As of Monday the 13th we are officially home owners (for better or for worse). Here is the front with the beautiful Live Oak that is taking over the front yard. One of my favorite parts of the house.

Here is our giant living room.

And Hannah's room, though it could be any of the three smaller bedrooms because they all looked about the same when we bought it.

This is Josh and I as we started demolition a few hours after closing.

A little back ground on the house to understand the urgency for the demolition. The previous owners had three very nice and very huge German Shepherds that seemed to have full rain of the house and it really smelled like it. First order of business was to de-pop corn all of the ceilings and rip out all of the carpet to get rid of the smell and any buggies that the dogs left behind, and then paint all of the bedrooms (to continue to get the smell out) before the new carpet came in. That gave us a week of working during naps and after Josh got home from work. To say the least we are one tired family.
Here is Hannah as I get ready to put here in the car at 11pm after another long night of construction.

We will have pictures of the more beautified house in the next week or two when we have time to take some.

Welcoming Summer

I don't know if you have heard, but it has been crazy hot in Cajun Country lately and rather than complain we have tried to do our best to embrace the thermometer and hang out at the pool. Here is Hannah trying to jump out of my arms to cool down faster and make big splashes.

And here we are all tuckered out after a relaxing afternoon in the pool to kick off our Memorial Day weekend.

We had a great time at our friend Dave's annual Memorial Day Eve Party. Hannah was introduced to the wonders of a bounce house for the first time and really had fun with the little girls that were playing ball with her.

She also had a lot of fun with the traditional end of night silly string fight. She was really tired, not sure what was going on, and upset that she wasn't aloud to investigate with her mouth (Mommy said no way!).

Our week was rather uneventful, but we got to end it with my 27th Birthday. Josh made me this awesome checkerboard cake which I haven't had since high school. And he added the fancy touch of chocolate crumbles to the outside that made it even more amazing!

And I got a special delivery: