Our new house

So we bought and moved into a new house.  Not new, but new to us.  We had put an offer on it way back when, and were out-bid.  Just as we had given up, I came back from Japan with news that the sale had fallen through and we were given our original asking price!  So we closed on the house 2 weeks ago, and I spent a week painting, cleaning, and generally fixing things.  I knew this was the right house when I found 3 frogs sleeping on the porch light:

I bought this awesome tool at Home Depot for doing edges: once I got proficient, it cut my taping down by like 80%.  I'm totally sold on this thing!

We are trying to get rid of some of the gold bling in the house, so I spray painted a lot of the bathroom fixtures...

Here is an intermediate pic of the boys bathroom: pre-beige days.

The boys bedroom (same color as the bathroom ended up being)

 I actually didn't get to the living room: I ran out of time.  I was painting our bedroom the morning of the move, and I have had to finish bits and pieces along the way...

Here is the upstairs bathroom while I was in the middle of cutting the edges.  We for grey over the stripes....

These are the woods right behind the house: we have a trail from the backyard which hooks up with a utility road through the forest.

This is at the beaver dam right behind the house:

Here is the kitchen/dining room right now.  We still have to "unpack" and find places to keep all of our crap, but at least it is a little more livable.