The Start of our First Garden.....

..... and possibly the end too!

Well most of you know that I am not a gardener. I know very little about plants. Even though my Mother is a Master gardener I was never the one to be outside with her and to learn all of her expertise. With that being said, one of the first things we decided to do in our new house was plant a garden!!! It's a small corner in our yard, with tomatoes, pumpkins, squash, jalapeños, cucumber and strawberries!

(I had just watered them)

The jalapeños are doing good!

The tomatoes are doing great!

The squash/ cucumbers (because I can't remember which plant is which), is not doing so hot....

Neither are the pumpkins :(

This is a patch of sunflower seeds! We will see how they do eventually.

The good news is that it rained last night and that seems to have helped. And yes I have been watering them. I've also called my Mom and Sister to consult a few different times because I still have no clue what I am doing!

It's About Time

We FINALLY signed the papers yesterday!! That's 11 days after we were supposed to sign them!

They had told us we would for sure be signing them on Thursday and it would be closed on Friday so we could be moving in right now. They were wrong again and we signed Thursday at one meaning that it won't close until Monday. There is a chance it won't close till Tuesday which would mean that we will stay here until the next weekend because we wouldn't be able to use Andys Dad's moving truck from Tuesday through Friday. If it closes on Monday like it's supposed to them we will be moving in Monday at 5!

We signed a billion papers, most of which said the same thing over and over, some of them were even blank! At least that step is over and fingers are crossed that everything goes right from this point on!

Friday was even more stressful on top of trying to find time to sign the papers. I got a voice mail from my Mom during class on Friday (during music!) that said she was going in for a cat scan at noon. She had stomach pains all week and the doctor thought it might be appendicitis. We pushed up the signing of the papers a few hours so that we could leave for Medford as early as possible if we needed to. Luckily, it was not appendicitis and she did not need to go in for surgery that night. She found out that she has cist on her ovaries. Still very painful but will hopefully go away on their own. We are very thankful that everything will be ok (and that she still gets to go on her vacation next week!)

We are very glad that Friday is over! Now we waste away another Saturday and Sunday and prepare for moving on Monday! Off to the Salem Saturday Market!

Baby John's Quilt

This is my second quilt and was far more challenging than the first! My very favorite friend Ashley is expecting her second baby any day now. I really wanted to bless them with something special and that was why the entire quilt experiment started in the first place (that I am totally obsessed with now). This is a "rag" quilt, it has raw edges all around the middle squares so the more it gets washed the more snuggly it will get. Last Saturday we met up to get a little pampering and to hand it over so now I can share the pictures with you!

I purposefully did not show any progress pictures along the way so that it would be a surprise for her but I did take some. At some point this week or next I will post some of them.

I used the tutorial for the quilt top from here: http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/

and the tutorial for the binding from here: http://www.vanessachristenson.com/

One More Week

Our closing got pushed off one more week :( The appraisal took longer than it should have and there are a TON of people processing loans right now so even though we were supposed to be signing papers yesterday we didn't. Our lender said we have a one percent chance of signing them tomorrow but more than likely it will be Monday. Which means we won't move in until next weekend because we gave them three days after closing. Like my mother said, as long as we close some time we should be good. But my house is a DISASTER!

That is only the beginning of it.

I was having a hard time living in it for this week and now it's an entire week more! We have been praying that they would find somebody to rent our apartment out asap but now we are really praying that they haven't quite yet because we were supposed to be out by Sunday. If they keep us to that we will be homeless for a week!

I guess I just have to do what I do best and get to organizing!

My Obsession

Andy pointed out that I may have some little itty bit of an obsession with blogs! Ok so maybe it's not just a little obsession I actually think it's a pretty big one! Recently I switched from using Internet Explorer to "Google Chrome". Why? Because it's pretty and fancy and I thought what the heck. So needed to move all of my favorites over and sort through them at the same time. I found that I have a TON of projects saved that I would love to do and a TON of blogs that I really like to look at whenever they update them. To keep them all in one place I added them to the side bar on this blog. It makes it easier to see if my favorites are updated and which ones I have looked at recently.

Andy also pointed out that I have made a major shift from baking to sewing and I noticed that most of the blogs have something to do with either sewing or home decor. I'm sure i'll find a few more crafts and then swing back into baking before to long! Coming soon is a list of all the quilts that I am itching to make!

More Pictures

We had the full home inspection on the house tonight and it did great! I took a few more pictures but some of them didn't turn out very good because I was trying to do it at the same time as the inspection. We have the appraisal next week and then just getting through escrow but if all is well we should be closing in 4 weeks!
I am really thankful for this week of Spring break because it is giving me a lot of time to work on my second quilt which is for Ashley's baby due early May. I want to get it done before the baby comes and before I need to start packing!

The view of the entry way and front door:

Looking at the living room from the front door:

You can see how the first two bedrooms are right off of the living room:

Standing in the kitchen and looking out. The door leads to the laundry room and then into the garage. To the left is the living room and to the right is the family room:

The other side of the kitchen (compared to the previous post) I also discovered today that underneath all of the cabinets is lighting.

Standing in the family room and looking at the dinning area. My first thing that I want to get is a table to fit into this space!

Part of the family room:

The huge skylight in the family room. There is a smaller version of this in the kitchen as well:

Looking down the hallway towards the master bedroom. The bathroom and a linen closet are on the left.

Bedroom one/ office:

Bedroom two/ guest room:

A very bad picture that shows you the hallway from the master bedroom down:

The bathroom:

We bought a HOUSE!!!

After three long months and 3 failed offers, we have finally bought a HOUSE!! Keep our fingers crossed that the inspection and apraisal go through. It's a 3 bedroom 1.5 bath in a great neighborhood. It's an older house but has been fully updated within the last 5 years. We got a great deal on it! We get it on April 23rd (possibly a week earlier!) Here are the pictures from the website but I will take more when we go to the inspection next Wednesday.



The Kitchen:



Living Room: (We get to keep the couches in here!)



Family Room:



Master Bedroom:



Backyard: