Laundry Room / Mudroom Makeover

We are still continuing our projects at home trying to get everything the way we want it before baby comes.  When we were house hunting and first saw the laundry room space, I immediately told Riley that this would be a perfect space for some cubbies!  The thought of having a place to come inside and drop all of our stuff makes my heart happy.

Riley wasn't thrilled about the idea of having to build some cubbies, but they turned out great and I love them!

Oliver already trained in our routine when returning from school/daycare.  He climbs up on the bench, takes his shoes off, and puts them in his bin! 

Big Boy Bed

Last night was Ollie's first night in his big boy bed.  Riley and I spent the weekend getting a bunch of projects done around the house and this was a major one.  Riley painted the baby's room so that the crib and dresser could be moved out of Oliver's room and his new bed and dresser could be moved in.

I can't believe that he is big enough to sleep in a big boy bed, but he couldn't be happier.

He did great!

Playroom

We officially have our first room completed entirely in our new home.  Riley and I have been working hard trying to get projects done on our never-ending list.  We've got lots done, but still have lots left to do.  It was nice to get one room completed - Oliver's playroom.

I'm really happy with how it turned out and know that it will get lots of use.  Our routine has been that after bath time, we hang out up here and wind down before bedtime.  

Oliver is very pleased as well and often asks to go upstairs to play (mainly because that is where all his big tractors are, haha).

Never-Ending Menards Trip

We are still working on getting settled into our new home.  We have much fewer boxes and most things have a place, but we've got lots of projects to get done which means a trip to Menards on a Friday night.

We've been waiting for the 11% off everything sale because we had a list a mile long.  

2 carts, almost 3 hours, and nearly $900 later we made it out of Menards!

We were at Menards so long that I sent Riley along and stopped to change Ollie into his pjs since it was way past this bedtime.

For such a long and boring shopping trip, our little guy hung in there and was pretty cooperative throughout...

...now if I can just get Riley to cooperate and install all of the stuff we bought in a timely manner...

Moving Day

We said good-bye to our first home last week.  As anxious as we were to get into our new home, it was bittersweet.  When we purchased our first home together, only a couple months after our wedding, we had planned on being here quite a while.  Plans changed and this move really is for the best, but it's still hard to leave the house we made a home, the house we brought Oliver home to, and the only house Oliver has ever known.

Riley, Shelby, and our dads loaded up the majority of our stuff on Wednesday so we camped out as a family on the living room floor for our last night.

Thursday was the big move and we had the morning to get the rest of things loaded up.  Being pregnant and having an umbilical hernia prevented me from being all that helpful with the loading and moving of stuff...so Ollie and I went to Wamego to get breakfast for our crew. 

This little turkey ate a dozen donut holes all by himself!!

Although I wasn't much help, Ollie sure was ;)

Saying goodbye to his room :(

Bye-bye!

We had lots of good help for the move and didn't have any major issues.  We spent the rest of the week and weekend cleaning, unpacking, painting, and organizing at the new house.  There is still quite a bit of stuff still to do, but I have a feeling we will be using the whole summer to get settled.

House Hunt

I should have posted this much earlier, but time has gotten away from me and I'm just now getting around to it.  Anyway...we are just a few short days away from the big move.  Finding a new home turned out to be more of a challenge than we originally bargained for, but it seems that everything is falling into place.

To refresh, we put our first home on the market in January, and by on the market, I mean I posted it on Facebook.  That was on a Wednesday and we were under contract by that Saturday.  Luckily, our buyer didn't want to move right away so we set a closing date for the beginning of May.  This allowed us plenty of time to find a new home, pack, and move.

We started our search in the Milford and Wakefield area, but that posed to be an issue when we went out to look.  We saw lots of split level homes and homes that were just too far of a drive for both Riley and I.  We also looked in the city of Riley, but there just wasn't anything available with the kind of square footage that we were wanting.  

Riley initially said that he didn't want to live in Clay Center, but that is where we have found and purchased our new home.  He will be super close to work and I will have half the drive that I currently have now.  It is right outside of town on a couple acres and we are anxious to get in it.  The process of buying this home hasn't been nearly as easy as it was buying our first -- we had to do lots of negotiating back and forth and it even got to the point where Riley was saying that we might have to walk away.  Saying this to a pregnant woman with no other alternatives for a place to live wasn't pleasant, but luckily the sellers accepted our terms and we are set to move very soon -- Thursday actually!