Homeowners!!

We are homeowners! As of this last Friday we are living the American way and officially in debt! (student loans are just a minor debt...) We signed off our lives and got to work! Our first order of business was to remove the awful popcorn ceiling. I have a bajillion photos of the process. But first, here are the before pictures of our house:

Master bath/shower

Master bath/shower

Main floor living room

Main floor living room/entry

Main floor entry

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Door to outside/laundry is on the right down that hall

The stairs to the basement

Main floor full bath

Main floor full bath

Main floor full bath (the shower/tub are on the left of the toilet)

Addilyn's room

Addilyn's room

The Husky room (For all you UW fans)

Husky room

You can just assume everything is going to be painted, because it will be. :) The window treatments are what came with the place, but they too will be changed. Here is us in the process of taking our popcorn ceilings down. I didn't have a before picture of our bedroom because I forgot. But here it is in process:

Masks are essential.

What's underneath the popcorn

Master bedroom

The floors get COVERED, so we protect the majority of it with drop cloth. What doesn't get on that gets sucked up by our sweet new shop vac.

Every single ceiling has popcorn, including inside the closets.

The process: spray with hot water and vinegar. I've got some massive forearms now.

This was only the beginning.

The reveal of what's under the wallpaper...MORE wallpaper!

The green wallpaper was super easy to take off. The stuff under it is going to take some skill and chemicals.

We saw this coming. There was some water damage that had been repaired years ago and we were planing on there being some rot. So we made a whole. Good thing Scott knows how to patch drywall! (or at least going to learn how to!) It's no where near what we were expecting, since we were expecting the worst.

My view while I'm in the kitchen at our apartment. Addilyn is staring either at me or Cabo while I'm in there.

And of course, pictures of Addilyn. (and Cabo) She is a growing growing growing girl! I can't believe how much she has changed. Today she discovered her feet for a moment. She is reaching for things and touching everything.

Watching HGTV while I cleaned. Oh I'm terrible, letting her watch TV already...but she was so cute!

Before we left to sign our papers to our house. As you can see she was completely stoked.

Munching on her hands.

I have some more pictures on my phone with her cuddling with her orange duck, but I'm too lazy to get them on here right now. So you'll just have to wait and see them. They are darling.

The humidity in the morning. Yes you could cut it with a knife.

Cockroaches, escaping pigs, shots, and bamboo forests

Introducing: the American Cockroach. This was after we caught it in our room. Yesterday I found another one. The thing is, they are way too easy to spot and we haven't seen one in our apartment before. We think they're coming in through the vents. eh...

Below is Addilyn after having way too much fun!

She had her 2 month appointment the other day. She is 12.2lbs and 24.5in long. She's a tall girl! She was also so good her entire appointment. Even after her shots she only shed a couple of tears and then went to sleep. It wasn't until later that night that she told us how she felt about them. She cried, a lot.

 Her cute little bandaids..

 The rest of these pictures (except the last one) are these pigs that were by Scott's work. No one at his work believed him that they were there. There were like 25 yards from the road...kind of hard to miss.

Scott got out of the car and they started coming towards him. I think they escaped from someone's house- which is kindof funny to think of. Escaping pigs...

I love this picture! This was yesterday when Scott got home from work.

We also went to another geocache, which we did not find. It was in a bamboo forest and I got a gazillion bites. I'm not sure how much Cabo enjoyed it, he had to jump and climb under a lot of fallen bamboo.