Home for the Holidays

One of my favorite part of the holidays was decorating our house with Christmas lights. Our neighbors have complimented us on our decorations several times! So exciting!!

After brief stint in LA for Xmas, it was nice to come home to our little bungalow. While I was out there, I got to see Chi Young and Elliot and their GORGEOUS new home (also a bungalow) of which I will not post pictures here because it puts our house to shame. But, it gave us a lot of inspiration for what our little bungalow can become one day!  It was wonderful to see my family (who I hope will all come to visit the new house soon)!

Let it Snow!

One of the joys of homeownership that we were in no way prepared for was shoveling snow. The DC area got a massive amount of snow during the blizzard of 2009. And, of course, we had no snow shovel. Shout out to Ginny and Randy, Gil, and Jeff and Becky, our generous and kind neighbors who lent us their shovels at various points throughout the 3-day-long snow shoveling marathon!

After shoveling out two cars and our sidewalk, my arms were about to fall off. So we jumped in the snow to celebrate. Here's Masai after jumping from our porch, face first into the snow. Yikes! It was actually really fun...and cold. Here's hoping there is no more shoveling until next year =)

Thanksgiving

We were so excited to have our first Thanksgiving in our new place and even more excited that our moms (Chantal and Diane, wearing matching jackets) came to cook for us! Here are some photos of the finished kitchen and the delicious dinner!

Settling In

Well, we did it. After a crazy couple of months of moving and unpacking and refinishing floors and dealing with leaks and all other kinds of disasters, we have just about settled into our new home. A big thank you to our moms, Chantal and Diane, who gave us the help we needed to get it done and to Pete for coming to our rescue and helping us move at the last minute!

Our last picture in our apartment

Pete and Chantal

Many things remain to be done, but for now, we're just happy picking out new furniture and rearranging things to our hearts content.