Moving In

We've been living in Cedar Falls for about two weeks and I've been very slow to respond to the requests for photos. Somehow we've stayed very busy but our place still doesn't look or feel "settled" yet. We keep going to stores like Lowes, Home Depot, Farm N' Fleet, Walmart, Target, Bed Bath and Beyond, the list goes on. We keep bringing things new things into the house but never seem to get everything put away, because each new project seems to bring a new mess along with it. :-)

Here's a little documentation of some of our progress so far:


Jen on move in day. The contents of all ten of those boxes are supposed to fit in our kitchen?!



Matt's contribution to the unpacking :-)

The seven ton pile of dirt Matt spread around the house to bring up the grading.
Very manly work.

Matt is testing out the newly assembled patio furniture. Next project is the grill!

Other accomplishments include shopping for and purchasing our first lawn mower, assembling shelves for the basement, fixing our washed out flower beds, enhancing Matt's tool collection, and giving him plenty of opportunities to use them.

Jen is also trying to get to know the Cedar Falls/Waterloo area. We've gotten the bikes out and gone exploring on the bike paths near our house a couple of times and even squeezed in a 10 mile training run for the half marathon we'll be running in Green Bay in two weeks (watch for a future post on this)!