We're baaack!!

The dust is not quite settled in our new home.  As of today, we've been homeowners for a whopping 3 weeks, and lived here for 2 of them.  Most rooms are mostly put together, with a couple random findings in each.  Like the boxes of records in the living room, the washer and dryer in the dining room, the medicine cabinet in the kitchen and the 2 1/2 weeks of dirty clothes piled in the bedroom. 

I didn't think it would, but it feels like home already.  A dirty, cluttered home, but a home nonetheless.  I think it was the baking.  Day 4 of living here, I made some banana bread, and it was delicious.  Delicious baked goods make me feel at home.  Blame my mom.  :)

It's taken some hard work, and a few really helpful friends to get this place looking like our home.  See, we bought the house from a guy named Ed, and Ed did pretty good work, but had the decorating style of your average 75 year old woman.  So he did awful things, like paint a perfectly good kitchen pink and put up faux brick wallpaper.  We're pretty sure to get the perfect shade for the upstairs bathroom, he took a cantaloupe into Lowe's and asked them to color match it.  I have fairly decent pictures of all of this, but they are on my camera, and my camera battery is dead and I haven't found the box that we packed the extras in yet.  Alas. 

We do have some incentive to continue the settling in process - we're having a housewarming party next Saturday!  My sister-in-law graciously offered to plan while I just give tours to family all afternoon.  So that means a bit of work this week, then a bit of cleaning.  But we're excited to show off our baby!