Fencing Us In

Look at this!! That is a Fence!! Well, it's an almost finished fence but its still a fence ( A fence, mind you, that will be done by the time you actually see it in person). There is no more tree/chain link fence monster marauding all over our yard. That there is an actual fence. It's something to behold after all the work that's gone into it.
Someone told us that every project we take on will take twice as long and cost twice as much. While this hasn't been quite true for us, there is a big grain of kosher salt in that statement.
To build this fence we have dug out enough concrete to build a skate park. We have found everything but oil buried in our yard (and if we did find oil we are not telling anyone). We clear cut our back yard like a brazilian rain forest to make room for the fence and still pulled roots the size of baseball bats out of the ground and our way. I think we found an actual baseball bat. Take a look at how this project has progressed.

Bill the Tree Guy took out all the trash trees that had taken over our backyard.

After he cleared out the backyard we got to work. The first night Johns and I thought we'd knock out 10 or 11 post holes before the end of happy hour. We got one hole almost dug. One, that's it. We'd dug out an inch at a time. Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption dug faster than we were. You'd think we were using plastic spoons. That was when the scope and size of this undertaking became terribly clear. It was going to bust, at the very least, my ass.








That guy there, in the blue, who is working while I just sweat. That is AC. He saved me from having to dig everyone of those post holes by myself. If that had happened We'd have 8 Ft of fence and it wouldn't be in our yard or in a straight line.





As you can see everyone had their special jobs. Grandma B had to keep Damian from running out into the yard and making us look bad with his brute strength. I made sure there was enough sweat in every picture. Mat and John made sure it looked effortless




We did so much work on this project that it requires two posts. Plus I'm tired. So take a peek at what else we did.





















Thanks to everyone, it looks AWESOME and is making our house even more of a home!

FENCE!!!!

Our fence is going up...right as I type this! Sean and I will post plenty of pictures later - and write all about it, but I just was too excited not to share the fun news. It's going to look great. Sean and my Dad are still hard at work - but we'll post more news soon!!!

Now With Posting!!

Hey faithful readers,

Sara and I are new to the blogosphere and are working out the kinks here as we go along. With that, we fixed it so anyone can post a comment if they so chose. So please, have at it and comment away at the shenanigans we publish

Thanks

The Gospel According to HOB

The Gospel Brunch at the House of Blues is fantastic. Every Sunday there's fried chicken, waffles, people clapping with the beat (ahem, I'm looking at you All Saint's members); just everything you want right after Church. and waffles!!
As you can tell by the pics, We had seats up close and personal with the Johnson Family Band from Bay City. They made it past Ike to come to Dallas and put on a show.
Take a look at these pics from the HOB and clap along with the beat in your head. Oh and imagine the food, especially the best bread pudding (excluding Great Aunt Eleanor's) and cajun mac'n'cheese because no one could stop eating long enough to take a picture.

By the way, Caleb Young, pictured below, had much more fun than this pictures may show. He can shake his rump like a natural.

What's New?!?!

We've had a busy few days.....first - here are the pictures of our cute shrubs! :)

Here's a wrap-up of our weekend - on Friday night, we went to the Rangers game with Sean's work....it was a lot of fun! The weather was perfect for a baseball game and it was fun to meet all of Sean's co-workers. Atticus had the most fun though, b/c he went to hang out with my Mom and Nutmeg.....he and Nutmeg were home along for a little while - so Atticus decided to eat a whole bag of whole wheat tortillas from Central Market - doesn't he have such good taste?

Then on Saturday, I had to finish some work...but we did make time to take Atticus to the dog park...he had a great time - I think he wants Sean to campaign for him to be the Mayor of "Fort Woof" - http://fortwoof.org/
We stopped at Meg, Kev and Dami's on the way to the dog park - look at this cute picture of them on their porch!


I guess I'm not writing in chronological order, but here is a picture of Kristen, Atticus and I...she was in town for a couple of days for work - so it was such a blast to get to see her - we went to a fabulous restaurant right near our house (w/in walking distance) - Yucatan Taco Stand. Then we came home and Sean and Atticus got back from having dinner at my parents' house... of course we had to taste-test some of our wine from Sonoma/Napa...yum! Here's a pic of us in the really huge 12-passenger van that Kristen had to drive (quite a change from her Mini Cooper!)

Here are a couple of pictures from today at my parents house....Sean said that Atticus and Nutmeg were "dancing cheek to cheek...."
Look at how cute Damian is - his teeth are growing in so fast!!!






Mom and Anna came over for a delicious dinner made by Sean - gorgonzola and spinach stuffed chicken, brocolli and mashed potatoes...yummy!

Sean's going to write more tomorrow about our trip to the Gospel brunch at the House of Blues in Dallas....and don't worry - his post will be funny...hope mine isn't too boring :)

Happy Tuesday! Cali Trip Pics

We now officially have 6 shrubs in our front yard....and although this may not sound exciting to some - we are ecstatic! I'll put a cute picture up later - but first I wanted to add a few pictures from our trip to California. We were so excited to go to celebrate with Stewy and Gretchen for their beautiful wedding, as well as to celebrate our first anniversary! It's hard to believe that a year has flown by so fast! We went to Sonoma (hence the picture in front of wine barrels), Napa (at the picnic table - we're at Taylor's Automatic Refresher - which was on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives on the Food Network), Davenport (a gorgeous little town), Monterey (the Aquarium was awesome), and San Francisco (yes...we did walk up the crooked-est road ever!) Whew - what a fun-filled trip!

The addition to our Lynch Family!

I know that what you all really want to hear about is our sweet, chocolate lab - Atticus...he has brought Sean and me so much joy in just the short month that we have had him! We have also gotten much closer to our vet - we've visited him 5 times in the last month! On our most recent visit we found out that poor Atticus had hookworms :( Poor thing...but he has medicine, and is all better now.

Here are some of Atticus' fave things:

• His grand-dog, Nutmeg
• Going for walks around the neighborhood
• Looking out the front window....
• And - last, but not least....jumping like a pogo stick to greet us when we get home!!

He is so sweet - I can't wait for everyone to meet him!

In the Beginning....

In the beginning there was a house with tall grass and a bad roof and, despite the picture, a front door. It also isn't nearly as crooked as it seems in this pic. It is crooked, just not that much. Anyway, Sara and I decided we are doing as many of improvements to the house as we can and we will post every accident, happy or otherwise, we have along the way. Here is just a preview of what we'll post - try to find a theme....




















The answer? Since we bought our home, I seem to only own one pair of shorts!

And it begins.....

I have told too many people that I wanted to start a blog about our house not to. So here it is. We hope to document every brush stroke, shovel full, and exasperated look that goes along with owning our home.
I guess that is the point, to watch 1601 College Avenue become our home. It'll be messy but fun to watch