Outside and all around us

(Click on the pictures for a nice big view)

So I haven't written over here in ages, pretty much since we tried to sell and it all fell apart last year, but I figured it was time to start blogging again, and since you probably already know from facebook we sold our house and bought us a place in the country! 

On May 5th we found this place that was EVERYTHING we were looking for (except an attached garage but with a rancher style house and husband who builds things, I WILL have one in the not too distant future), on May 13th our house hit the market and on May 20th we had accepted an offer.  It was a stressful few weeks as buying and selling houses is the WORST.  But we survived it and we are here and slowly but surely getting settled in.  We feel unbelievably lucky to have found the home that is perfect for us, and by being perfect for us YOU KNOW there is lots of "projects" to be done! 

While I have so so much to say about the lovely home we just sold, I figured you are all dying to see more pictures of the new house (because my mom told me you were hoping I would start blogging again so you could see the house and all the fun stuff we do to it) so we will begin with the outside which I think is going to see the biggest transformation. The previous owners of 9 years were obviously not outside people and apart from a nice little flower bed out front they did nothing with the yard.  However, we found an AMAZING piece of gold in the form of a scrapbook about the original owners and it included some pictures of a beautiful park-like yard, it will be our goal to bring it back to it's former glory!  This first picture is looking at the back of the house. I sprained my ankle chasing the dog who won't come in because he's afraid of walking on hardwoods, and oh my, the weeds...

 This is my chicken coop!  Full of 7 chickens and a Rooster whose name is Foghorn Leghorn, obviously. The building to the left is a horse shelter next to the pet cemetery where "Buffy" and "Lady" were buried in '97 and '98.  Loving the hodgepodge of different fencing!

 This is Bryce's shop.  That huge building that is LITERALLY only a couple hundred square feet smaller than our last HOUSE is his new shop.  He's obviously in Heaven and I will probably never see him again, but my house will be full of amazing furniture and updates. While it looks like an adorable barn (and maybe was originally?) it is definitely a shop now, but I love that it isn't just a pole building and is super cute, since it's basically all you see when you drive down the driveway. And it smells like a barn, so there's that.

Front of the house, weird broken concrete circle, the well house.

 Left to right, coop, lean to, playhouse (the original owner lived in that little building!) and then the shop again.

The driveway...

We have been cleaning and organizing and PAINTING away, I hope to start some before and after pictures soon, the kids are gone to their cousin's this weekend so I'm hoping to finish up their room while they are away!  I am hoping to start posting here again regularly so don't forget to check back :)