New house

We have been crazy ever since the day we moved in.  We go to Home Depot every weekend.  So much for my "limit the house projects" idea!  I think we are in the mode that we just want to get the main updates finished so we can enjoy them while we're here.  We have been able to do some pretty big updates since moving in which we are so excited about!  We knew that once we moved into a house, we wanted to do the major updates soon after moving in so we could enjoy them before/if/when we resell the home.  Not saying we are moving soon, but resale is always on the mind of a homeowner.  I can't believe we are homeowners.  I feel like we are not just too young to have a baby but also to own a home!  Haha.  We are true adults now, I guess.  We are turning into our parents...we go to Costco and Home Depot on the weekends.

I'll start showing some "before/after" pictures soon!

A few of the paint colors were nice and neutral, like a light tan color in the entry and hallways, but most of them were pretty intense for our taste, like mustard yellow and brick red in the play room upstairs and green toothpaste mint in the master bedroom.

We were also blessed with a good amount of wallpaper that I've had the joy of trying to take down.  If you have ever experienced the process of removing wallpaper, you are probably with me in saying "I will never put wallpaper up in my house ever."  The funny thing is, wallpaper is becoming trendy again!  But that still doesn't deter me.  Painting is such an easier thing to deal with.

We absolutely LOVE our house.  It's basically more than we could've ever dreamed of and more than we need right now, but we're hoping to fill the rooms with kiddos over the next few years.  (I'm not pregnant.)  I have really been appreciating the small things like having a fan in the bathroom that keeps it from getting really moist while taking a hot shower, having more than one bathroom when guests are over (!!!!), having a garage to keep the stroller in so it's not sitting right next to the front door inside the house and so I don't have to haul it up and down stairs to go for a walk, a kitchen sink big enough to wash a pan in, having cabinets high enough that our coffee pot fits on the counter beneath them, and more storage space so we can actually find things in our closet.  In other words, we have a lot to be thankful for!

But thinking back, we loved our house in Blacksburg with all the quirks and it will forever be so special to us.