Wednesday, March 24, 2010

oh my YUMMERS!

So a friend brought some cookies his wife made to work today. He gave me half and I thought I had gone to heaven!
I asked for the recipe and he said.. so easy....
1 box of chocolate cake mix
2 eggs
1/3 cup oil.
mix. bake 350 degrees 8-10 min.
So I'm making some up right now and boy howdy. They are so tasty.
I think this could be a good substitute for the brownie cookie we make at Christmas. Lots easier to make and taste the same or better.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Pictures.... our home.

So here we have the bed room. What we're going to do with it... I think... paint the bottom half brown, I would like a nice wall paper on the upper half... Kyle wants a light grayish green color but we're agreed on the (I think it's called) chair railing in the middle to cover the transition.
The kitchen is very very nice. I have so much storage. It's going to be hard not to fill up every space. But I may have to do it anyway. My favorite feature of the kitchen... Behold... a dish washer! I'm so excited. There is also a window box over the sink and I want to start grown plants. I have some snap dragon seeds from my grandma, and I want to grow an aloe plant and some fresh herbs. There are so many great possibilities.
This is the front room. We choose the brown color on the walls and I painted it on my days off. I really like it. I'm standing by the fireplace.
I'm standing at the door here to get a different view of the room. On the wall of the stairs I want to put together a frame collage. I saw one on a craft show and loved it. I will definitely show pictures later. My first decorating goal is to get everything OUT OF THE BOXES!
I took this of Kyle on our final inspection day. It was fun. We're a little worried about the big tree. It might be too close to the house and the foundation. So we could be chopping it down. Think how pretty a bed of roses would be there...
That was a few more pictures of our home. More to come as I have the time. But I think we'll be here for a while so I'm not feeling the pressure to make it perfect right now. I do love the house and the neighborhood. One of my friend's father lives down the street and has some blackberry starts that he might be able to give me. So yea. I like blackberries.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

We have KEYS!

We got the keys for our home on Friday and we spend the night dreaming about this and that.
Then we went to the Home Depot to start pricing out washer, dryers, paint etc. Well we liked one washer and dryer so much and from my price searching on the Internet I knew they were a good deal. They are GE energy efficient and THD was having a special of 10% off energy efficient appliances. So we got a 10% discount and our power company is giving a $100 mail in rebate.
We bought them on the spot. They will be delivered on Friday.
I'm so excited. Yesterday we went over to the new house with cleaning supplies. Our upstairs bathroom is tile in the shower and it took me over 2 hrs to scrub each individual tile and grout clean. When we change the bathroom... NO TILE! Then the previous owners had a Crick-Cut and all these vinyl saying and a huge vinyl tree in the rooms. So I took those down and washed down the walls to get ready for paint on Monday.
Now you may asked, "Where was Kyle?" He was cleaning behind the fridge... it was really yucky. Then he started to tackle the rest of the kitchen.
Monday is paint day. woot.