Our new place all put together

Finally here they are, the LONG ago promised pictures of our apartment all put together. :)

Kitchen/Living room

Our bedroom

Looking in from the front door

Bathroom

This is My scrap room and Shauns computer area

So there you have it. :) We are really enjoying it now that it is done :)

Nevaeh Marie Elliott 6-6-09

She is here! I was home in TC to spend some time with Skyy before she leaves to go with her Mom for the summer. I choose a good weekend to be there as I was able to witness the birth of my niece Nevaeh Marie. It was absolutely amazing! Alyssa was not due until the 24th but got preeclampsia so they had to induce her. On Friday night they admitted her and gave her pitocin to get the process started. On Saturday morning at 8 they broke her water. Shaun, Skyy and I were at Target buying the stroller/car seat when I got the call to head to the hospital. I got there and Alyssa had just gotten the epidural so she was feeling pretty good. They wanted her to get some rest before she had to start pushing so I went to the waiting room. I was there with her Mom, sister and Step Dad. Eventually Shaun and Skyy showed up. My brother came in and said that she was starting to push so we headed to her room. Alyssa was so week but she did an amazing job and at 4:31 baby Nevaeh entered the world. I was crying worse than the baby and it was just a wonderful event. I am so happy that Alyssa wanted to share the birth with me and I look forward to the relationship that I will have with this beautiful baby. I can't wait to go home during Cherry Festival to spend more time with her. :) Here are some of the many many shots I got.


Proud Auntie Jen! Big Sister Skyy

One day old She is SO very tiny!! The new family Such sweet little piggys

What a MESS!!!!!

4.5 hours is what it took 3 moving guys to move all this crap from one condo to the other. I can not believe it took so long. It was getting to a point at the end I just wanted to tell them to throw the rest away because there was no more room! UGH!!! We have been here 2 weeks now and I still have a long way to go. Here is some of the mess before I started.

The bedroom closet Our bedroom The kitchen!!! YIKES!!! The spare room was and still is the worst. That is where the boxes that were not labeled went as well as all the stuff that needs to go in that room. Ay Ay Ay!!! Our living room the day we moved in. We had it set up enough so we could watch TV. Just in time for the Kentucky Derby.

I can not wait to have it done and show it off to everyone!!!

First game of the season!!

The first game for me this year happened on April 18th. I went with Deanna from work. What a great time and what made it even better is that we won!!


Jay Cutler the new Bears QB threw out the first pitch and did the 7th inning stretch. The crowd went WILD!!!

Out with the old....in with the new!!

Out with the old and in with the new. There were perks at the old place and there are perks at the new place. The thing I miss most about the old place is the size. It was HUGE!!! Here are some shots of what we left and what we now have.

OLD

So this was the kitchen. It was a decent size but the appliances were ancient and check out the horrible wallpaper!!! Yuck!

This was what they called the dinning room. It was our living room as it is right off the kitchen. It was a HUGE room and perfect to get just the right set up for our big screen TV. The bad is that the tiny radiator you see in the right corner Sucked at heating that room in the winter!

The bedroom was also very very large. This picture looks horrible as the color was not as bad as it looks here. If it did it would have been painted a LONG time ago LOL!!

This was what was supposed to be the living room (it was for us the first 2 years we were there) I kinda liked the fake fireplace. It was a good place to hold all my nicnak type thingies. It had huge windows and a wonderful huge mirror along the wall opposite the fireplace.

The bathroom was pretty darn small and pretty junkie. Not a fan of it at all in any way LOL

NEW

This is pretty much the view of the kitchen and living room from the back door. Look at all the pretty granite counter tops! LOVE it!!

Here is the spare bedroom. Really small but it has a great closet

This is a view of the living room from the spare bedroom doorway.

This is our MUCH nicer bathroom. SO love it :)

This is the master bedroom that is fact is not very "masterfull" as it is not very big LOL!! But it has a very large closet.

This right here is what makes the small aspect of the new place worth it!!!! LOL

Our first pic of us in our new place :)

So there you go, that is the old and new. I am still working on getting the new unpacked and I can't wait to show it off when it is all done. Hopefully soon!!!