Happy House Anniversary!

Today is the anniversary of our house! We moved in on this date in 2009. You can read the saga with us purchasing this house here, and here, and here. But the bottom line is: We got the house!

This is a photo I took when Chris and I first saw the house. I think we were talking about what an amazing chandelier we would hang there one day. 

This is me on move-in day with our key. Note: those are the denim shorts from here. 

This is a photo of me with our SOLD sign. 

The day we moved in, we had incredible friends, Sarah and Charlie, who drove from North Little Rock and Matt and Laura, who we had not met until that day. Everyone helped us move in and then went to dinner with us at Gus' World Famous Fried Chicken. Shockingly these people are still friends with us. The dirt, grim and sweat from moving did not deter them. Good peeps.

This is move-in night, and the first time Chris sat in his Man Chair in its new spot. 

Porter discovered he loves carpet. Even though this is blurry, you can see he loved his new home. 

This was our first weekend in our house. A fancy brunch on our balcony.  

I can't believe all of this was three years ago! 

Dear House, 

We love you. We have taken our time working on you (mostly because Air Conditioner has been taking all our money) and making you ours. We especially like your balcony and fenced yard. And your kitchen and your high ceilings. Thanks for three great years. 

Love, Allison, Christopher, Porter and Grace

Flashback: One year ago today

This is one of the only photos I can find. It shows me and Porter, and it was moving day. We were moving out of my folk's guest house (we lived there after this) and packing for Memphis. 

Such a monumental time, I like that it's capture by one simple photograph of me and Crazy Cat.

Phase II

We bought a beautiful house and filled it with box

After box

After box!!

Grace decided she needed to be in the middle of it all.

While Porter found a spot high away from the action...it also let him oversee our progress.

Phase III is quickly approaching thanks to a lot of unpacking and hanging pictures on Chris' end. And, we had the very exciting event of meeting our neighbors. They came by the other night to introduce themselves. How nice! We're happy to report that they are our age with a dog and don't appear to be serial killers, filthy people or all-night partiers. Hopefully they will even like us and we'll have some friends right next door. Yeah!

THANK YOU ALLTEL TEAM

Thank you, thank you, thank you to Chris' Alltel gang. They are the ones responsible for our beautiful nesting tables. When we received them, there was no packing slip or gift card because of a glitch in Viva Terra's system that day, but today they resent us the information.

We are so grateful for these tables. They are totally beautiful and exactly what we need in our new house. Someone (maybe Judy?) had noticed Chris' affinity for the Viva Terra catalogs, and had our style down perfectly.

I know you all are waiting to see pictures of our new house, and I will post them as soon as possible, including pictures of our nesting tables' new home.

thanks again, Alltel people!!!!!!! We miss you :)