Our weekend...

...if you want to call it that! I feel like I worked all weekend, mostly because I did. 

Friday night, Mark and I took Motley and a few items over the house and then headed to Fuzzy's down the street to meet up with my sister, her husband, and her two kids. Right when we got there, they noticed my niece was breaking out in a rash and she was screaming! About 30 minutes later they had determined that she had 'hand, foot, and mouth' disease. Poor baby! They still came over to the house to see it and we chatted for awhile and laughed at Noah's 'selfies' on his LeapPad. 

Sick little baby!

Saturday morning Mark and I drove over to Fort Worth for brunch at my aunt's house while my dad's oldest sister was in town visiting. I happened to check the invitation while we were on our way and it turns out it started at 10:30am rather than 10am, like I had thought. So we decided to stop at Petco to pass the time. Look at these cute little mice! 

He was posing.

After brunch, we headed home to pack up some more and went to the house to help my dad unload some items that he brought from my parent's house, including a lawn mower!

Like I said before, my parents are giving us a bedroom suite and a table and chairs, so my dad brought over the bedroom furniture and some other things my mom wanted to get out of her house.

Heather (my trusty assistant) and I then headed to Ace Hardware to pick up some paint (free this weekend!) to get started on the dresser.

We painted the 6 drawer dresser white, took out the top drawers and painted inside. I will be on the hunt for some long skinny baskets soon. Do you know of a good place to find baskets?

Heather brought Edward over on Saturday and he and Motley channeled Lady and the Tramp with this stick.

On Sunday we continued packing and Mark's dad brought over a truck to start taking the 'big items' over. This took a little longer than expected because the truck blew a tire about 2 exits away from our apartment, after it was loaded up and en route to the house. Since this wasn't his truck, things got complicated and he didn't show up with the first load until about 3:30pm! Bless him!

The boxes started coming in...so did the fridge!

I need help with how I should paint this mirror frame...Suggestions? TBD on where it will end up.

And lastly, a sneak peak at our progress!

The house is nowhere near complete, and there is still some packing to do at the apartment. We did spend our first night at the house on Sunday night and everything went well! Cheers to new beginnings!

Link up with us and share your weekend!

pssst! I'm guest posting on Emily's blog today! Click on the link to check it out! 

Guest post on Brown Eyed Girl!

Venturing out into the unknown

Last night, Mark got in some much needed disc golf (he is having withdrawals) and I stayed home and did some part-relaxing, part-cleaning and packing. I got so much done around the house yet it was still a low-key night at home, which I have been craving over the last couple of weeks. 

Here's the photo I posted to Instagram last night. It seems like it always gets worse before it gets better when you are packing! Also, if anyone in the Dallas area knows of any moving boxes laying around, please let me know! We are a little short, considering all boxes we currently have are in the photo above.

Since we are in the midst of packing, cleaning, and moving, I don't have much to write about regarding the new house. There are projects still in the works, but they are just incomplete at the moment so I'm going to hold off on sharing those.

In the meantime, I thought I would try something new and put myself out there for criticism. While this blog is by no means a style blog and I don't consider myself a fashion blogger AT ALL, I wanted to link up with this newly discovered blog and do a fashion post. I finally managed to get my hair straightened last night after over a week of crazy hair, and I actually dressed nice today because I plan to go get my driver's license renewed today at lunch. I am finally changing my name and address, y'all!

Anyway, here goes!

excuse the office photo!

Also, I just used my iPhone camera so these fall even further out of the 'style blogger' category. Interesting fact: everything I'm wearing is from Target. Yes, even down to my nail polish and glasses, everything (with the exception of my Fossil watch and C Wonder bracelet) is from my favorite Tar-jay. Obviously I'm a successful fashion blogger because of my extremely luxurious taste in clothes.

Well, that is slightly embarrassing but I wanted to change it up a bit and make myself a little more human. Plus, there aren't as many photos of me on this blog so consider this a little introduction to my readers that don't know me personally.

Don't forget to check out the style link up (I'm a day late) on Tucker Up. 

Happy Thursday!