Farmer's Market Trip

On Saturday we made a trip to the Cherry Creek Farmer's Market to pick up some in season yumminess. 

Fresh sweet corn (Ohio corn is still way better!) and rhubarb

Fresh Palisade peaches. 

Eric sees strawberry rhubarb pie and peach butter in his future :)

Of course, we picked up some things not needed, but highly desired.  . .

We came across a Pierogi booth, and I've never said no to a pierogi, so of course we stopped. There is a new Polish restaurant and vodka bar ( I can do without the vodka part- ICK!) that opened in downtown Denver. To gain interest they opened a booth at the Farmer's Market. We had pork filled pierogis. Holy. Cow. Amazing! I think we'll definitely be headed to the Polish(ed) Tavern pretty soon!

We came home after our adventure and found some ready for picking peppers in our own back yard! The banana peppers were ready to be chopped up and put on grill pizzas for the Broncos game Saturday night! 

Weekend Highlight Reel

It was a pretty productive weekend if I do say so myself! We took Indy to his new park. It’s just a few blocks away from the house, and it’s yet another one of Denver’s awesome city parks-plenty of green space, paved trail, swimming pools, rec center, etc. It was cooler on Saturday morning, so it was a really nice time to take a walk with the pupper doo and let him get to better know his new area.

After we got back, we, well, more so Eric- I definitely helped with clean up, but not tear out- tackled cleaning up the back yard. It was pretty overgrown and there were dead branches hanging from the tree and sticks and leaves all over. I had to buy a rake ($), because we realized we didn’t have one. It was embarrassing.  Now it’s nice and clean and with some more watering we’re hoping all the grass comes back. . .

We did some other random household things, such as staining and installing transition strips ($), putting in new floor registers ($), and changing out some old light fixtures ($). I didn’t take pictures of that because who really cares about floor register and ceiling lights- you see one you see them all.

After those homeowner endeavors I got my bake on. I haven’t baked in I don’t know how long- I think the crappy St. Patty’s day cheese cake was my last hurrah! So I didn’t really end my streak with a bang. Anyhoo, I got back at it in the new kitchen- can I tell you how awesome it is to spread my mess all over? I mean seriously folks, no clean up as I went- just one big mess. It was lovely. I decided my first attempt needed to be cookies. Since I was out of chocolate chips and I refused to spend another dime (note: all the $ for the weekend!) this weekend Snickerdoodles were the winning recipe. They were a little thicker than the ones Eric’s mom makes, but they were given the taste seal of approval, and 3 were eaten while they were supposed to be cooling. They smelled amazing and if we had smell-o-blog available I would have saved the smell for you. Since we don’t you’re just stuck with the picture.

I also mailed our wedding invitations! We stayed up Friday night labeling and stamping them and Saturday they went to the post office!

That was the extent of our weekend. Up for next weekend: Trip back to Ohio for all sorts of fun and excitement!

Random Picture

Clouds after storms rolled through. I changed no color settings and did not tweak lighting on the camera - this is an as is picture!

Continuing Progress

So we've made some more progress on the house since the last post. The 2 biggest things are the new Oak tree Eric planted in the front yard and the new rugs we got for the living room and hallway. 

The new tree!

Runners

Living room with the new area rug- still need stuff on the walls. . .

The Livable State

Obviously we still need some furniture, have some more unpacking to do, and need to hang stuff on the walls, but it's coming along and is definitely livable.

living room again from the front doorway

living room from the kitchen doorway

table is set up in the back half of the kitchen

Eric cooking in the partially unpacked kitchen

laundry room off the kitchen

office

guest room

master bedroom

guest bathroom

patio with furniture

The Cleaning and Refinishing Process

Well you saw the beginning now here's the middle!

let the carpet removal begin!

the laminate that we got to go in the living room, hallway and master bedroom

ALL the laminate

Woo! living room is almost done!

finished floor and new loveseat

finished hallway

let the boxes make their way in

He's supervising.

Todd getting a start on the master bedroom floor

you'll notice the kitchen became the main dumping ground for boxes and other stuff

finished hallway and laundry room area

more stuff in the kitchen

the new workshop area of the house, i.e., the other side of the kitchen. Those doors go to the patio.

Our New House- All the Before Shots

OK, duh duh duh da! Finally the pictures you’ve patiently been waiting for! The pictures of our house and some of the renovations are now posted for your viewing pleasure!

We’ve been in the house almost 2 weeks so far, and while we’re exhausted from moving and refinishing and cleaning, it’s been a blast. We love the house and Indy loves his back yard! Indy has also come to find out what a bunny is and finds chasing them a favorite new pastime. These pictures are all the "before" shots. The next post will have the intermediate shots. Who in the world knows when we'll post the official all done after shots.

Take a peek at the pictures- we hope you enjoy!

Standing in the front doorway looking into the living room . The kitchen area is through the cut through

other side of living room- right to left: closet, hallway, laundry room and then kitchen

Looking down the hallway: on the left side is the guest bathroom on the right is the office and the guest room

Backyard looking straight back from the kitchen sliding doors

other side of the backyard- see! it's huge!

this was the layer of dust on just about every surface in the house

guest room