May- We closed on our house on the 6th and started moving right away. The next day, Tawny flew in to help, but we had already moved the majority of our stuff out of the apartment and into our house (well at least into the garage). We started painting the kitchen and front room right away. At first the yellow on the walls was a little too yellow, but the second coat toned it down and the intensity matches that of the watery blue on the other walls. I really liked how it turned out and it is really nice to not have white walls...at least downstairs. After getting most things inside, we jumped on the landscape. We had a contractor come and do our cement, the first Monday we were in our house. We then went to work on sprinklers and everything...had to get the tree and plants in the ground that had lived on our apartment's balcony. We just kept to it and had the front yard done by the time the rest of my family had to leave (oh yeah, they came a week after my mom).
Then memorial day, Eric had another day off to do landscape, so with the help of a guy from his work we did the rest of the sod. It has been doing pretty well, but the summer has been hot so it does need a little more water. We stayed up really late one night planting the rest of the plants, so after this point the only thing left to finish was the retaining wall for our tree. We also ended up buying an air conditioner which has made our lives so much more pleasant.
June- We worked on finishing our landscape. We enjoyed our swimming pool and Tawny came back out to celebrate Eric's birthday. Things started to get better straightened out inside, and we had an open house with Eric's birthday to celebrate. It was nice to start working on organizing the inside of our house. We finished our garage floor with a green epoxy and started to park both cars in the garage.
July- We went to Utah for a very brief trip for Eric's Grandma's funeral. We had Scott and Shamae and their kids out for a visit. We had fun swimming, at Estes Park, playing at the Railroad park, and going to Denver for the Children's Museum and the Aquarium. They also went to the zoo and the Butterfly Pavilion. We started working on organizing our basement.
August- We had Gaylene and Spencer out to visit. We went to the zoo, played 9 holes of golf, went up to Estes Park, played games, and enjoyed the swimming pool. We also went and picked up a piano which is sitting in our garage, forcing Eric to park outside until we re-finish it. It is a fun project, but a little daunting. Eric started to work part time and is taking 17 credits at school. Our lives have been turned upside down a little with school and all the changes that it is bringing, but it is exciting and fun.
We feel very busy, a little crazy, but mostly in love and have enjoyed our summer in our new house.
