Welcome to Alabama

This past week was absolutely crazy. We ended up changing our move date and our week went from “oh we’ll get that later” to “AHH we have to do it NOW!”. Of course we would end up moving during a random unbearable heat wave that made everything twice as miserable. It was 99* in Clarksville on the day we moved and I took a picture of the gage in my car when it hit 100* on the drive down to Birmingham. We ended up filling a 26 foot Uhaul as full as it could possibly get. I really didn’t think we had that much stuff. We didn’t have a big house and everyone knows that N loves to throw stuff away if he doesn’t see a use for it so we don’t hoard unnecessary items. I really don’t know how anyone with a bigger house or kids can move their stuff in that truck. 

And now for pictures because that’s what everyone wants to see!

Front door

Gate to the deck and side of the house

View from the front door.

Kitchen Sat morning

Kitchen Sat night

This house actually has more cabinets than I have stuff to put in them! Granted we have all our food in the big wooden pantry so that saves a lot of space but there are A LOT of cabinets!

The room that we put everything in until we figured out how we were going to use it. And let me add that this is after N had spent 3 hours taking boxes down to the basement before I got up.

Looking toward the front door.

Now it’s the dining room.

The doors in the den that lead out to the side deck. I have new curtains up already. Need to take pics of them. And the hot tub is now drained and will be removed soon.

This is N’s room. He will have the old tv and entertainment center in here and he can play video games and watch whatever he wants.

The den, we are planning to put a flat screen tv on the wall across from the sofa.

The only bathroom. And it’s small. This is the only complaint I have about this house. LOL I’m just used to us having our own bathrooms!

We haven’t really finished putting the bedrooms together. And the pictures I have of them aren’t great so I’ll take more soon.

This is the deck down the side of the house. You can see the french doors to the left. We had been letting the dogs in and out of there and now even though N has installed a dog door from them at the back door they want to come in here still. Ki gets mad when we tell her to go around.

Looking down onto the lower deck. Pooh loves this one.

Standing in the same spot as above but looking toward the back door, this come out from the kitchen.

The whole back yard. It’s not very big but it’s enough for the dogs. And we have everything off the deck because the landlord came and restained  the deck on Sat. The gate and steps lead down to the basement garage and the driveway off of the ally in the back.

The garage door.

So far we really love the house. I’m not to fond of the paint colors but I can live with them for a little while and he’s already said just ask him first before painting so I don’t think he’ll mind. This neighborhood is really nice and so far all the neighbors that we’ve met have been super friendly. I’m excited to get to know everyone better.