This House is feeling like a Home!

So most of you have heard about our naughty dog, Hallie and eating my 5HOUR rolls I made, here is a picture of the cooling rack after she ate them, this rack was over flowing and this was what was left.


Needless to say my first estimate of 6 rolls gone, has to be wrong. The pup couldn't even lay right on the floor. She laid on her side and moaned for an hour or so. Oh lets not leave out the stinky doggy farts too.

 


Of course I can't leave out more pictures of that little booger.

I also caught a shot of a pretty humming bird making a meal of our houstas. 

So this week Jabin's parents were here and we had so much fun! It was nice to show off our house to family. So we picked them up on Wednesday evening. Unfortunately that had a few issues with the flights, they had to change planes twice instead of once like usual. All in all they got here and everything was okay! Wed night we showed off the house and had dinner.

Thursday, Larry, Debra and I got around and together after Jabin left for work. We went to Jabin's work for a tour to show it off to the parents.



Then we went to lunch at a diner by DeIorios.

Friday, Jabin got up way too early for me to make everyone cinnomon rolls!

 They were very yummy!

Later we went to the Adirondacks. Spent part of the day in Old Forge and then headed off to the Secret Waterfall. I'm pretty sure its one of my favorite spots!



We also stopped at Fourth Lake



We were pretty pooped after all of that but we went to dinner at Ancora anyway. Larry and Debra got to experienced Calamari and Utica Greens for the first time. The calamari wasn't a hit, but the greens were.

Saturday we went to Joan's Diner ( our fav now) and then headed off to the Great New York State Fair. Ended up not being so great and there were so many people there! It was nice seeing everything but I think we all expected a little more. We left around 3pm and headed home. Jabin had to go into work a do a test run that was rescheduled 3 times I think. Larry went with Jabin to help around 11pm and I think they got back around 12:45 but I'm not sure, I wasn't awake.

Sunday was a day of hanging out and relaxing enjoying each others company. It was nice to just relax because we were exhausted. Oh wait, relax? nah we pulled weeds and Jabin mowed the lawn. Debra made a crockpot meal that was awesome, I made my pretzel and strawberry dessert. The whole trip we ate very well.

Monday was a sad day, I had to take them back to the airport :( . We left the house at 6am and got to the airport with time to spare. All in All it was a great weekish, its nice to see family after 3 months of seeing no one we know. I'm not complaining I love our life here but family is always nice.

Since they have left I have been getting back into my groove of things, and by that I mean crafting!
Here is another pic of our shelves, they look better now that they have stuff on them!

I have been working on both a wreath and a baby shower gift for our dear friends Justin and Bria. I won't post the baby stuff pic because Bria reads this :)

Here is the wreath.

 

I have a few ideas for some things involving barn wood, and fancy that we have a barn in our back-side yard It doesn't belong to us, but I bet if I asked nicely they'd let me have a plank or two. The wood is beautiful!

And we can end on this note, I am so happy we grow moss naturally! It's so soft!

Just a few things I see!

So I've been on a smoothie kick lately and these are a few of the yummy ones  I have made!








Oh and Hallie LIKES them too!







This is the ankle while waiting in the ER. They gave me a shot for anxiety and tension and it was worse then the sprain, the shot didn't hurt but whatever was in the medicaine took my breathway and sent the most awful pain through my chest, I will NEVER let them do that to me again. I was bawling. You can ask Jabin, I was complaining more about not being able to move my arm and not being about to  breath then I did about my ankle, it was AWFUL

 this is from the 1st morning we had in the house!

Oh facetime what would we do without you! These kids mean so much to us and we miss them so much! They both have the best smiles. Elaina was a little shy and Waylon just wanted to talk to "hallie boogers" thats what he calls her.





Each morning I have my cuddle time with the baby!














ooooooO.... this was very yummy, its a canolli from Cafe CaNole. The owner does a few things at Jabin's work. This was so yummy!!!!!!!!

Hallie also gets to spend time outside a lot now, it is never too hot! She loves it and she does so good without going out of our yard.




Here is the super ugly wallpaper I peeled FOREVER but the end result is so much better! Ill need to take a pictures once we are done with everything, furniture wise.




One day I came home from shopping and this was my view from my car into our backyard, I love it, this is the best part!

Jabin gets his cuddle time in at night! 

Oh and down below this is some of my salsa I made. Ive never made salsa before and this was pretty darn good I must say! It's a little spicy but good!

 

Long Time No Write!!!!

Well well well, SO SO SO much has happened since the last time I wrote on here. We have official been in the house for 4 weeks! We moved in on July 11th! Overdue for sure, we couldn't have been more happy and excited to get in, I was so excited I managed to throw myself down the stairs at our attys office :) GO ME!!! It's a total Natalie thing to do!

The day we moved in I packed up all of our things in the hotel and headed to the attys office to meet up with Jabin so he could finish signing the last of the papers. He was at work and running a little late so I ran in to tel the atty he would be just a few minutes late, and on my way out, I wiped out! Cried for a little bit managed to get to my car on my own and sit there thinking to myself "you've had 2 months to sit on your ass and do nothing and have a hurt ankle and the DAY you get to do something productive you throw yourself down the stairs!!!" Jabin got to the atty office and I just start bawling in my car, and he takes a look and then says "we are heading to the ER", um excuse me?!? No! We will not be doing anything other then signing papers, doing the final walk-through and then maybe we can go to the ER. We had waited too long to postpone any longer. Turns out it was just a nasty sprain, not as bad as last time so thats good, no crutches, but an air cast for a while. That night we rented a redbox movie, ate subway and slept in our living room on our air mattress.

The next day the movers came to the storage units and pack it all up again and move it into the HOUSE! They brought 6 guys with them and we were loaded and unloaded in about 5hrs. It felt so good to lay in our own bed that night!

Since the day we moved in we have been working on unpacking and updating rooms. Needless to say Hallie loves her new home, she roams around and she gets to watch over her unfenced yard. I work on projects out on our table in the backyard and Hallie is great about hanging out with me and not leaving the yard. When Jabin takes her out to potty she is never interested in leaving our yard, we are pretty lucky she is very well behaved.

I may be skipping forward a lot but it's the most recent thing we have done. We (ME) started peeling wallpaper about 3.5 weeks ago. We are lucky that the first owners primed the walls and then put up the paper properly. But the half up the wall boarder, that was a different story! I used a mixture of hot water and fabric softener a 1:1 combo and a puncturing tool to take down the paper, on 3 walls we had half wall of paper and a boarder and on the tallest, biggest wall we had floor to ceiling paper, UGLY PAPER! It took me about 2 weeks to peel the paper and pick off the border, then what I couldn't get off, or where I peeled too deep I did drywall mud to even it out. Jabin sanded all the mud and then primed the mudded areas. We even patched our first hole :) . Then I washed all the walls with soapy water to get any left over glue or yuck off the walls, and that took forever. I'm sure it was because all I wanted to do was paint, but we made sure that we did everything we could think of to make these walls look great, we wanted to prove we can do these things, we don't need a professional. It gives up a sense of pride. It's OUR home, and we've made it that way.

So last weekend we bought the paint and painted the whole living room. This room is very large and you all will realized why it took so long once you come visit us! With being tall Jabin and I have never really need a ladder to paint and even if we needed to be all little taller we never stood at the highest step you can stand on on a ladder to paint. Some parts of the room Jabin had to stand at the highest rung of the ladder and then be on his tippy toes. His calves were very sore the next day. We are perfectionist about painting now too. Jabin edged the ceiling with a little brush, two times around and then had to roll the higher parts while one the ladder twice. And I panted the baseboard and main walls twice. We ended up using 3 different colors and it turned out awesome. I do have to give all the credit to Jabin, I didn't think 3 colors would work, but this room looks amazing! Now the house is finally feeling like our home, it looks like us!.

Jabin's parents, Larry and Debra, will be heading into town in a few weeks, we plan on going to the NY state fair, its close in Syracuse. We might also go to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, which isn't too far from us either. It will be nice to show of our new digs to family. I have the guest room all set up also. It happened to be the color I wanted it so no painting needed.

Well I have more to say and I have pictures to show you guys but I don't have the time right this minute, they will come soon!