Visiting with Mia and Cadence!

Cadence and Mia

This weekend we had Scott's sister Christie and her family staying with us. Mia and Cadence are our nieces . They are 21 months and 4 yrs old respectively . They had lots of fun running around our house, following Berkley around, and playing on our stairs. Playing on the stairs was definitely the theme of the weekend. Here are some cute pictures from their visit.

The Beautiful Weekend!

We have really enjoyed the nice weather the past couple of days. Berkley is recovering from surgery and decided to spend some quality time relaxing on the deck. Her leg is about 85% back to normal and she is moving around much better. Hopefully in the next 2 weeks it will be back to nearly 100%.

Berkley Sunbathing
Chilling on the deck

The dry warm weather gave us some days to get the yard final graded. The bulldozer worked all day on Friday and most of Saturday smoothing out our yard. Hopefully we will get grass planted this week and start the long process of growing a yard. It is amazing how much better it looks compared to before the grading. It actually looking like a yard not a construction site.

Weekend of Recovery

Berkley had surgery Thursday to repair her ACL on her back left leg. She had her right ACL repaired a couple of years ago. The recovery is going slow and she has spent most of the weekend laying around. After this surgery, she didn't get a cute hot pink bandage like last time. Friday night was a little rough and she was in a lot of pain. But after some pain meds and a good night of sleep, Berkley was feeling much better and starting to touch that paw to the ground. We are hoping for a quick and complete recovery.

The Easter bunny did bring Berkley a new Suspicious Chickie. Her Chickie has always been one of her favorite toys. The picture below shows a comparison of her old Chickie to her new Chickie. See how much Berkley loved the old Chickie. He doesn't even have any stuffing left.

A Baby Bulldog on the Way!

We are excited to announce that we are having a baby! I am 13 weeks pregnant. We had our first ultrasound at 8 weeks and got to hear the baby's heartbeat last week at our twelve week appointment. It is exciting to be through the first trimester and to be able to share our news with all of our friends and family. We have our next ultrasound scheduled for May 1st. We are excited to get a clearer view of our baby. We have decided that we are not going to find out the sex of the baby at our ultrasound. We are going to wait for the big surprise at the end! We have started looking for baby names but we are definitely struggling. So we will see how that whole process goes. It will be a fun next couple of months registering, getting the room ready, and watching me get fat!

Baby's First Butler Apparel!

Our Weekend!

We got to spend the weekend with my closest friends from my Butler days. We try to catch a Butler Basketball game together each year. This year we got to share Hinkle Field House and BU basketball with the newest member of our group, Owen, Megan and Shane's baby. He got to experience the excitement of tournament time and the extreme heat of Hinkle on Saturday due to the 70 degree weather outside. This is the explanation for the missing pants.

Owen in his Butler Shirt at the game.

All of us at the Butler Game.

On Sunday, I hosted the first play date at our new house. My friends Megan and Tracy had their babies last year 3 days apart. We decided to get these babies together to play. It was a success and they both enjoyed playing with each other's toys. I thought these pictures were too cute to not to post.

Owen and Lucy playing.

Lucy making the moves on Owen. He looks pleasantly surprised.

Home Sweet Home

We finally got to move into our new house on last Friday, the coldest day of this winter. We spent the weekend and much of this past week settling in and unpacking. We are happy to say we have most of it unpacked and put away. We now are waiting on our new furniture to be delivered to complete some of the rooms. We of course have a couple of minor things to be finished and some concrete, landscape, and outside painting to be finished once spring arrives.

We are so excited to be in our new house and see it all come together like we imagined. It is really nice to have our own space. It was definitely interesting in the rental and we thank Kristen and Cory for letting us stay with them. Berkley was a little depressed last weekend with the all of the commotion of boxes and furniture but she now is really enjoying the house. She loves all the light in the house (especially since we have no curtains right now) and we find her frequently laying in the sunny spots. She has found if she sits on the front steps that she can see out the glass on the front door. She also discovered the deck this week and how if she goes down the steps off the deck, she ends up in the back yard. We have struggled with muddy paws though. We can't wait for grass! Here are a couple of Berkley pictures from this week.

Homeless for the New Year.....

I apologize for not posting any new posts lately. Our computer died before Christmas and I have not had to opportunity to upload any new pictures. I know we had told lots of you we were moving before the first of the year but that did not happen. We did however have to move out of our rental house because someone was ready to move into it at the first of year. So that leaves us homeless until the house is finished. The house is behind schedule due to our trim guys. I know this sounds familiar, yes they were the ones putting us behind initially and once again we are waiting for them. To get our certificate of occupancy, the spindles have to be done on the stairs. The trim guys are the ones responsible for this spindles. So here we sit waiting on them again. The good news is that all the other minor things are getting done before we move in because there is plenty of time to finish them why we wait on the trim guys. Hopefully the house will be done is a week or so. Until then we are staying with Kristen and when we wear out our welcome their we maybe moving onto the Eder house. I will try to get some updated pictures posted soon because has been a lot of things happening in the past couple of weeks.

Little bit of color and some other stuff......

Well a lot is happening at the house....... we still don't think we are going to make our move in date of the second week of December but we are definitely making progress. So I said a little bit of color, well actually it is a lot of color. I am very excited about how the paint colors turned out because they were stressing me out (not as much as the cabinets did but still creating stress). As you will see below, the cabinets are finished and look great. I could not be happier with them. I would highly recommend Miller Maid Cabinets if anyone is looking for new cabinets. The cabinets turned out great and the people were very nice. Later to come this week should be tile, counter tops, and much, much more.

The Office (but no Dwight).

The Dining Room.

The Great Room with fireplace and built ins.

Kitchen cabinets (pre kitchen wall paint).

Kitchen after first coat of paint.

See I was not lying about color.

Some of the Laundry Room Cabinets.

Our new Garage Doors.

Space for Rent.

We came home from the Colts game on Sunday to be greeted by a FOR RENT sign in the rental's front yard. This might be the first true sign that we are moving soon. I just hope the new house is ready on time. By the way for those of you who have not had the pleasure of coming to the rental house, Yes it does have teal shutters, and Yes it does have a teal front door, Nice huh?

Trim is done! Concrete started!

Our trim guys finally finished on Saturday after being at our house for 6 long weeks. The painters even started invading their territory this week. The painters got the upstairs and most of the basement trim started. Our gracious brother-in-law Chad came up from Posey County (see wedding pictures from previous post) with his two hard workers to pour our concrete. The weather however did not cooperate and they got rained out a couple of days but they will finish it this week. They did get our sidewalk and front porch poured. We are keeping our fingers crossed that everything else will stay on track so we meet our move-in date.

Front side walk and porch.

Hearth room

Great room

Mud room.

What does that say?

What does that banana say? Why would a banana be pocket size fun? We thought this was pretty humorous sticker for an oversized banana.

Progress is Slow.

We haven't made many posts lately because the trim process has been dragging on for weeks. The trim should have been done in 3 weeks but we are in week 5 now and the trim is still not done. They are even having to redo part of the stairs that we thought was done. Here are some updated pictures. Hopefully the drive way and sidewalks will be started next week and painter.

What is that dog doing????

Let the Trimming Begin!

House Update: The drywall is primed and the ceilings are finished. The trim guys started at the end of this week. They are working on hanging all the doors and getting the trim put up. I know these are exciting pictures but I can't put up a post without a picture.

Bedroom door hung and trimmed out.

Basement door waiting to be hung. Just like in monsters inc.

Only One Jen Alvey in the Family Now!

Mr and Mrs Chad and Jennifer Hoehn

Last weekend, Scott and I were in Evansville for the wedding of Scott's sister Jenn. Yes, the other Jenn Alvey is a married woman so I am now the only Jen Alvey in the family (unless one of Scott's brothers decides to marry a Jen). It was a beautiful day and Jenn was a beautiful bride. Scott and I wish them the best as a married couple and are happy to welocome Chad to the family.

There wedding did provide me with one very unique experience though......

The Semi Trailor

We rode in the back of a semi from the church to the reception. Yes I said a semi. I did praticipate and I embarresed to say I had fun doing it. Yet I still am not recommending this as the recommned method of transportation for a wedding party. Don't worry there was plenty of beverages on the semi and a cooler that was converted into a stereo system to provide music for our ride.

Proof we rode on the Semi.

The seating for the bride and groom on the semi was appropriately enough a "love seat".

A couple of the other lovely bridesmaids enjoying the ride.

Scott's sister Christie and our niece Cadence.