The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Weekend

Is it Friday yet? Oh wait, happy Monday! Yep, our weekend was busy busy busy. I think the next few weeks are going to be busy busy busy too! We’re in full swing on all of the new house renovations and it’s not slowing down until we move in. Here’s how our weekend went down…

GJ was here at the end of last week because she and I met with a decorator for a few hours and it was great. We walked away with some really good ideas and PAINT COLORS! hooray! I had a good idea of what I wanted – and had the samples to check out – but the decorator helped us hone in on what will look really good. I can’t wait to see it all transformed.

paint

On Saturday, we picked up some breakfast and headed over to the new house to check things out. We were pleased to see the painters over there!  Gotta meet that deadline!

new house

The painters were pleased to see all the AL hats on my boys’ heads! Roll Tide!

alabama

Later that morning, we headed out to Lowe’s to check out fridges.  The boys had no problems entertaining themselves there!

lowes

The day wasn’t all work though, we managed to find time for a little play…

play

and to cheer Alabama on to a (very stressful!) victory over LSU!

Sunday it was breakfast…

starbucks

and back to the house. I’m so glad to have such good helpers…

new house

and it doesn’t hurt that they’re pretty cute too!  🙂

cute helper

The boys then took their dimples to Sunday school…

dimples

and we all managed to enjoy the BEAUTIFUL fall weather we’re having.  So thankful for that!

It was a busy but great weekend.  Now I’ve got to get back to picking hardware, researching door knobs, finding wallpaper….it’s fun!

Week in Review

We’ve had a busy week around here!

Post Halloween dress up has continued…

construction

The boys have been loving their “construction boots”…

boots

They enjoyed a little iPad time while Robert had football on the tv…

ipad

We got dressed up in church clothes and went to church…

church

My cuties rocked their boots to school (Maxwell’s request!)…

boots

We played tiger, jaguar, cheetah over and over and over and over…

tiger

Hmmm…what else did we do this week?  Oh yea, we CLOSED ON OUR NEW HOUSE!

new house

Woohoo! We’re all pretty excited to call this place “home” in a few short weeks.

new house

For now, the contractors are working away and I’ve got my little helpers choosing some paint colors!

paint

It’s going to be a busy 5 weeks to get everything done before we move in but we can do it!  It was a fun week for sure!

new house

See you next week!

My birthday!

I turned 36 last week…ugh. But, I had a GREAT birthday so I’m not wallowing in pity over my old age. I heard from lots of sweet friends, had plenty of cupcakes, received some nice gifts, and got to love on these sweet boys.

birthday

In addition to all of that, know what made my 36th so GREAT? Well, we bought a house that day! Yep, we made an offer on an awesome house on my birthday and got through all of the negotiations and inspections this week. Unlike last time, this is really happening and I’m so excited I could stick my face in a cupcake!

cupcake

This sign is up in our yard and we’re gearing up for a VERY busy few months…

for sale

I mean, I might be legit crazy because no sane person would sell her house, move into a new house and have a baby all within a non-stressful 3 month holiday period, right? Oh well…it’ll get done!  Here’s to 36 and to new adventures!

Movin’ on over!

We kind of had an exciting couple of days around here. In the 36 hours that passed between Wednesday night and Friday at noon, we bought a house!  Yep, we bought a house. No, we weren’t really looking. Yes, we do love our current house. But this new one just had some things we simply couldn’t pass up.  Robert saw it on the MLS on Wednesday night and we thought it looked interesting (we’re always checking out local real estate – kind of a hobby to stay informed). I emailed the agent to see if I could see it and was inside the house at 9:00 Thursday morning. I called Robert and told him he needed to get over to see it too so we met the agent back over there at 11:30.  There was another offer on the table that they needed to respond to asap, so we had to move fast if we wanted it.  By 9:00 Thursday night, we made an offer and after one round of negotiation, the deal was done by noon on Friday and the house is ours (pending inspection, of course!)

We did not see this coming but here’s what the house provides – SPACE! 4 bedrooms, two offices, a playroom and a garage with attached mudroom. It’s almost brand new – completely rebuilt in 2012 so everything is updated. It’s 100% move in ready on the inside. The biggest draw to it is that it’s on a cul-de-sac with tons of families. It turns out that I even know the girl living next door! She went to college with me and has 3 kids so she gave me the full scoop on the street and it’s sounds like a GREAT place to ride bikes, play basketball and just be a kid.  Hooray!

Needless to say, we are SUPER excited about it…

superman

superman

The one downside to the house is the yard…and that is the one thing I’m going to miss about our current house (well, the yard and the location). We have a fantastic backyard here with so much room to run…but the flip side is that we live on a busy street so have no place for the kids to ride bikes, etc. The new house has great space to ride bikes, but does not have a great backyard…yet!  I have no doubt that Robert and I will get it fixed up and looking great!

Overall we really feel like we hit a hole in one!  🙂

golf

(ps – check out the tongue! ha!)

Our summer just got a whole lot busier!