Yard Work

This weekend we planned to trim and spray some round-up on what we thought were a few over grown vines in the bushes between our house and the neighbors.  Boy were we wrong! As it turns out it wasn't a few vines in the bushes it was all over grown vines that were a mess. They had grown all over and up into the wires.Here are some pictures of the craziness that was our weekend in the front lawn.  Hopefully we did the right thing and the trash people will take the mess we have out in front because we still have some more to go.

front view when we bought in July

During the cutting

The aftermath

Looking better

The aftermath mess

All done

The mass amount of vines to trim

looking good

Here's hoping the trash people will take all of this!

Logan's 27th B-day

On the 4th Logan turned 27.  We celebrated Friday night by heading to Dupont Circle. We started by going to happy hour at the Melting Pot where we had some cheese foundue.  Then we headed further down Dupont to a beer bar/pub kinda place that Logan had been wanting to try. It has over 200 beers. We had some more food and Logan tried some beer. Then we called it an early night and headed home. On Tuesday his actual birthday we had ribs and mashed potatoes (his favorite) and then french silk pie and he got to open his present. Overall I think he had a fun birthday. Here are some pictures from the celebrations.

 

  
 

  
 

Crab picking!

While Logan's parents were here we had some people over for crab picking on the deck. Was lots of fun and lots of good food. Here's a before, "during" and the after math. I think we're true Marylanders now that we've hosted our own crab picking dinner.

New Dishwasher!

When we moved in the other thing that was broken was the dishwasher. We decided to hold off on replacing it, but now thanks to the rest of the gift cards from Logan selling caskets, anniversary/house warming money, and a great Labor Day sale we bought a new dishwasher. Logan unhooked the old dishwasher and then he and his dad put in the new one. It's so awesome to not have to wash all the dishes anymore.

3rd Anniversary

  Back in August (yes I know I'm behind but it's the school year!) we celebrated our 3rd anniversary. Hard to believe it's all ready been 3 years. They've been great. Thought it might be fun to share some of the adventures from the last 3 years. 2 trips to New Orleans (one with 12 high schoolers!), a honeymoon to Punta Cana, a blizzard which had us snowed in for days, an earthquake, hurricane, a back yard full of bamboo, April switching classes 3 times, Logan working LOTS of hours, trip to G &G's house in Minnesota, trips to visit our families in Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, and Cincy, trips to boogie board in Ocean City, crab picking, lots of visitors, all the fun, craziness and sight-seeing of D.C.AND the biggy---July of 2011 we buy our first house!!!! I'd say not bad for 3 years! :) As I always have said. We miss our families, but love the adventures of being out on the East coast together. So here are a couple pics from our anniversary. We had to celebrate early because Logan worked nights and I had a meeting. We went our for dinner and enjoyed just chilling on the swing on the deck. Thanks for all the cards, e-mails, and gifts!

 

New Dryer!

Saturday was a very exciting day-we got a new dryer! Now Logan doesn't have to iron his work shirts anymore and laundry just goes so much faster. I have to admit I don't even mind it being downstairs. So not that it's all that exciting- here are two pics of the new dryer. And the best thing is we bought it with gift cards Logan got for selling caskets. Who would've know that was a perk of working in a funeral home?!

Some updated pics!

So we've been doing more work on the house with curtains and hanging pictures. Thought I'd share a few more.  The first two are the kitchen. In the kitchen there is a good sized window by the table which you can see into from the street. SO when Erin was here she helped me pick out some burgandyish material that matches the backsplash and we made curtains. Then on the "side" of the kitchen is a door and other window.  So I used the leftover material to make a matching curtain for the window and then had some fun with the door. You may remember from the old house I had a little curtain for every season/holiday. I couldn't give those up so I put blinds on the door with my every changing curtain as a valance. So far I like it.  We'll see how bad some of the other seasons clash! :)  The other pictures are of the living room now that it has pictures up and for the most part is completly set-up.  More pics of other rooms as they are clean and get set up!

Kitchen curtains by the table

Other kitchen curtain then blinds & my
seasonal curtain

Living room with pics up

living room with pics up

living room with pics up