First of all, I was bummed that some people were to far away to make it & wish they could have been there! A shout out to Sarah & Lucas in Whitby and Dawn & Ryan in Brazil!
Only about half the people we invited showed up, so there was 7 people (not including me & Jay). It was so fun! We gave everyone a tour and then had a potluck dinner together.
Then we all had drinks... The boys went downstairs to play ping pong and we never saw them except when they came up for more beer! LOL!
We also got some really nice housewarming gifts. Our friends Kayla & Dan got us a artsy bowl thing, Craig & Krista gave us a bottle of wine & a gift card for Home Sense and Roch & Julie got us blown glass votives with scented candles in them. And we've already hung our first gift from Sarah & Lucas in our dining room and it received lot's of comments. The burgundy votives match well with our Burgundy Paint. I wonder if that was done on purpose.... Hmmm... A couple of people asked if it was.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Setting up House....
So, after returning from Christmas & putting that stuff away, we had less than 2 weeks to setup house before our Housewarming on Sat Jan 10th. Eeck!
Since Jay had to work and I had my last day of work on the 31st, most of it was up to me. I had no choice but to become superwoman! And just our luck, Jay kept getting stuck late at work & even had to go in for an 12+ hour day on the Saturday!
By the time we finished ( a couple hours before the housewarming started) I was so over the whole unpacking, organizing & deciding where to put stuff. I also can't remember the last time I was so burnt out!
But, we did end up getting some neat stuff setup during the process. We bought a ping pong table & rod hockey table to make the basement living room look more like a rec room as that is what its supposed to be.
We also got some digital art canvases for in the living room and a mat & boot trays by the door. Oh and I feel a little safer now that we have Carbon Monoxide detectors...
Since Jay had to work and I had my last day of work on the 31st, most of it was up to me. I had no choice but to become superwoman! And just our luck, Jay kept getting stuck late at work & even had to go in for an 12+ hour day on the Saturday!
By the time we finished ( a couple hours before the housewarming started) I was so over the whole unpacking, organizing & deciding where to put stuff. I also can't remember the last time I was so burnt out!
But, we did end up getting some neat stuff setup during the process. We bought a ping pong table & rod hockey table to make the basement living room look more like a rec room as that is what its supposed to be.
We also got some digital art canvases for in the living room and a mat & boot trays by the door. Oh and I feel a little safer now that we have Carbon Monoxide detectors...
Post New Years....
Well, our most recent New Year's ended up the same as our first New Year's together, just the 2 of us with Chinese food & movies.
We also got to go shopping for a bunch of house stuff. Yeah!
Since Jay didn't feel that our house was up to snuff for company, we asked Roch & Julie if they had backup plans and didn't mind not coming since our was was still a disaster... It turns out they had another invitation that they could accept...
We also got to go shopping for a bunch of house stuff. Yeah!
Since Jay didn't feel that our house was up to snuff for company, we asked Roch & Julie if they had backup plans and didn't mind not coming since our was was still a disaster... It turns out they had another invitation that they could accept...
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