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Slowly Getting Settled


I'm not sure what other people's standards are for moving in and getting settled, but I feel like it is taking us SO long! I keep reminding myself that we have only been in the house 10 days! All the boxes are unpacked and my car is in the garage, so I guess that is progress. Chad's car would be in the garage too except for the 2 trash cans currently taking up too much space. As soon as our grass is put in, we can move those outside.
We spent a good bit of the weekend shopping for odds and ends. Every house is different and we always need something to get settled, but this time we are adjusting to a new house, bad movers and new furniture. For example, this house has 16 windows! Our last house came with curtain rods and I only needed 4 curtain rods in Clarksville, so I have a little bit of work to do for window treatments. Thankfully Chad's mom is going to help me out by making some curtains! Also, the movers broke more stuff than ever before, so we are now shopping for a new kitchen table and probably 2 new bookcases if we don't find the hardware they lost. Chad and I also got new bedroom furniture before we moved, so I am working on decor for our room.
Here are a few pictures of our progress...

Front porch complete with new hanging baskets
What's hilarious about this picture to me is that is was taken at 8:30 PM...even though it looks like the middle of the afternoon and I was wearing pants and a sweatshirt while taking it! I do NOT miss the 108 heat index my friends in GA and AL are feeling!!
As I mentioned, we are still waiting on our grass. We do have a fence but its not doing us a lot of good without the grass though.
This is the only room of the house that is totally finished - the foyer!


The other rooms are close, just waiting to get stuff on the walls. I picked up several paint sample sheets at Home Depot yesterday. I realize that painting to some people in our situation would be considered a waste, but I LOVE a nicely painted wall.

This was Addison's room in Clarksville. I LOVED this wall. Chad frowns every time I mention attempting it again for Mya's room though.
I have decided to paint our half bath gray. I will admit I am an HGTV junkie and every time they paint a room gray, I am so jealous. When Chad was at West Point, the family I stayed with when I would visit, the Reads, had "Go Army, Beat Navy" half bath decor and we always thought it was cool. So that is the theme we are going with in there.

I am totally stumped as far as colors for the rest of the house though. Maybe I'll post some pics and get some opinions. No, I am not going to paint every wall in the house, but a few would be nice.

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