Take 2

We were made aware that it was difficult to view the pictures on our last blog post, so we are going to try blogger.  Hopefully it will be a little more user friendly (uploading pictures on the other blog was a pain), but captchas are now a necessary evil to leave comments.  Sorry.  Hopefully we will actually keep up with this one instead of dropping of the face of the earth for almost a year.

We've had a pretty busy weekend, as one could expect in a new home.  We painted our entryway on Saturday.  It took a total of 4 hours.  They weren't the most pleasant 4 hours, but we got it done.  I (Amber) realized that I can be a complete pain in the rear... a bit of perfectionism and crankiness.  Mark is a champ and helped me through it.  We didn't necessarily hate the old color, but wanted something fresher and not pink/peach.  We went with "Woodlawn Green".  I would say it's a little more blueish than I had intended, but I love it.

We were under the impression that the whole weekend would be cold and rainy.  There were a handful of quick showers on Saturday, but today ended up being pretty nice.  Although a lot of the weekend was spent doing indoor things and running errands, I still snapped some pictures of the lovely flowers around the property.  There are so many interesting things to look at, I can't wait to see how the season progresses.  I have no clue what most of the plants/flowers are, so any knowledge would be appreciated!

Gigi, Hogan and Pal are loving the windows as much as we do.  They saw a squirrel this morning and were extremely curious.  It was adorable.  As for other wildlife, we have seen deer, wild turkey, blue heron, a Pileated Woodpecker (it's huge), groundhogs (Mark is currently having a battle with them), and tons of birds of course!  One of the houses on the lane has 3 horses.  Gigi gets pretty worked up when we walk by them and they come up to the fence, she actually whines when they're not out.  We got lucky the one day... the leash somehow slipped out of my hand and she jumped onto the male's leg and just fell right back down.  He could have done some damage to our sweet girl, but he was calm and collected about it.

That's the front door.  The smallest bedroom is on the left.  I am standing in the second bedroom.

Bathroom, built-ins, master bedroom (in order from right to left).  View from smallest bedroom.

Smallest bedroom (left), front door (right), Gigi (bottom).  View from bathroom.

Mark is so brave and nimble.

After - #1 

After - #2

Before and After

Before Gigi's haircut....

Gigi got a haircut last weekend.  She was enjoying her woods and the sunshine.

Some flower pictures.....

The deadly rose bush (or at least I think it's a rose bush)

A purple yard to remind of us Martha (through Mark's story about cutting the lawn but avoiding the pretty flowers!).

This view is from the side door in the kitchen, looking into the woods.

Same view, but up towards the driveway (which follows the left of the picture on top of the hill).

SQUIRREL!!

Gigi's friends (at least that's what I call them... she might be thinking something different).