My First 5k!!

I ran my first 5k this morning!  My time was 34:37, which I realize for "runners" isn't great, but for me it was!  It was so cold outside this morning, but as soon as I got going, I warmed up.  The race was for Girls on Track.  David was a good sport and got out of bed at 6:30 to go watch me and take pictures.  I feel inspired now and can't wait to run another race. 

                                                                       Before the race

I did it!

Just finished!



Go Hokies!!!

Last night we went to the Virginia Tech vs. Georgia Tech game.  We had such a great time, but it was FREEZING.  The hokies won, which made it even more fun.  After taking the Marta downtown, we ate the Varsity, which was packed, and then went to the stadium.  Our seats were decent and luckily in the Virginia Tech section.  The final score was 37-26.  We got home around midnight, which for me was late, seeing as I am usually in bed by 9pm;)  But, the hokies don't play in Atlanta often, so the lack of sleep was worth it.

The Hokie Bird!

Soooo Cold!



Players after the game

Fall

Yesterday we went for a hike up Kennesaw Mountain.  We have been there a few times before, but it was so pretty with the leaves changing colors.  It was perfect weather for a hike!

There is a house in Buckhead that we saw last year that goes OVERBOARD with the Halloween blow-ups.  This year they did the same thing, so I stopped and took pictures on my phone.  These pictures do not do the amount of decorations they have justice.  They do the same thing for Christmas.



Work to be Done

Our formal living, which we plan to make the office, is finally painted.  David had a few days off work and painted it.  We chose a gray, but it turned out more blue. 

We also got some quotes this past week on plantation shutters, wood floors and painted trim.  Everything was actually reasonably priced.   The carpet isn't in bad shape, but we prefer wood floors.  The trim is beige, way too dark for us.  We could paint the trim ourselves, but because there is dental molding in the living room, dining room and foyer, that would be a LOT of work.

We decided we are going to get the hardwood floors, trim and plantation shutters done in living room, dining room, and foyer first.  After that we will move to the back of the house.  We will also be getting plantation shutters in the laundry room since that window is in the front of the house.  Our goal is to have all this done by Christmas!

Ghost

Today was perfect!!  The weather was so nice that we spent the afternoon doing things outside in the yard.  If you are facing our house from the street, on the right side are massive azalea bushes.  They take up so much space, and are so big that we had difficulty trimming them this summer because we couldn't get to the middle of them.  We knew we wanted to get rid of them, but every time we started working on it this summer it was too hot to get much done.  Today we started hacking away.  David worked for about an hour and a half and got most of the bushes that were against our house taken down.  However, he probably only removed 1/5 of the bushes.  Our plan is to work a little bit on them each weekend. 

While David worked on getting rid of the bushes, I decorated for Halloween.  Can you find the ghost in my picture?  (Ignore the dead bushes on the right hand side, that is part of the ones we removed today.)

Step by Step

So the progress is...not much.  The good news is the bathroom is painted, oh and the mirror is painted, but the bathroom is not 100% complete just yet.  But let's revisit some old pictures..by old I mean pictures of the house when it was on the market, this was not our furniture.

The family room with the previous owner's things

Now onto our room:

The color change makes such a difference!  We still obviously need to get the wires from the TV taken care of and moved.  We also need to hang some stuff up on the walls. 

Here are some before and after pictures of the mirror in the bathroom.  Here is what I started with, a gold oval mirror.  The color did not match the fixtures, instead of buying a brand new mirror, I brought spray paint.  The longest part of the process was covering the mirror with newspaper.

Here is the final product, I realize it is hard to tell what it looks like with the paper on it, but it looks good.  AND, it was only a $5 makeover!  When I post pictures of the completely re-done bathroom, the changes with the mirror will be more obvious.

Fingers crossed that my next post will have my new bathroom reveal!





'Cause It's Friday, Friday....

I am exhausted.  We have only been in school three weeks and I feel like waking up at 5:45 in the morning is getting harder everyday, shouldn't it be getting easier?!?!  But, the good news is that it's a three day weekend.  But, the bad news is that David has to work.all.weekend.

My goal, or should I say goals, this weekend is to get some stuff done around the house.  Priority #1 is to finish the bathroom on our main floor.  I need to finish the walls, hopefully I will have it done and get some good after pictures.  Then, I plan on painting the living room.  We didn't have a "formal living" room in our old house, so right now it is a dumping ground for things we have yet to unpack or hang up.  After I paint it, we plan on using it as an office. In the long term, we want to get a big desk and two chairs to face the desk.  Eventually we want to get plantation shutters on all the front windows of our house.  I can only imagine the expense.  We have two bay windows and a small window on the main floor to cover, then upstairs we have three windows in our bedroom, two in the guest room, and then one in the room above the garage....and that's only the front of the house!  Let's just say it will be a major expense.  Check out these lovely curtains that were left with the house.

Wow, those curtains!!  They need to GO.  I tried to sell them on craigslist, but no one was interested, I can't figure out why I didn't get any responses;)

Here is a picture from the formal living room, you can see the dining room beyond the stairs.  The dining room is another project within itself.

I have decided that next time people come visit us, they will be put to work:)