Welcome

Hi! Well this is the first of many blog posts.  First I guess we should start this off with a little explanation of the blog.  My family and I live is Kirkwood, Missouri.  A BEAUTIFUL suburb of St. Louis.  For the past 23 years (keep note of that number, it will inevitably make some more appearances) we have lived an amazing home.  But if you know us, you know we can get a little crazy at times.  Crazy moments in the past include:


1. Bringing home a Christmas tree, setting it up, then deciding the room needed to be repainted.  After three days with the tree in a five gallon bucket in the garage, we had a beautifully repainted room.
2.  My sister Jessica and I heard a weird noise coming from our at the time unfinished basement, we went down and Mom and Dad both had sledgehammers in hand.  The basement was finished a few months later.


As you can see our craziness often revolves around home improvements.  Keeping that in mind, I guess it's not too surprising that we've decided to move.


Now, if you know our family, you also know that we are incredibly close.  So many memories are contained within the walls of this house.  It's going to be harder than I could ever imagine to move and have another family living there.  Literally, our blood, sweat, and tears are in that house.  Luckily, our new home already contains many memories for us.  We're moving across town to my grandparent's home.  This is the house where my Mom grew up.  Our grandfather passed away in April, and the more we thought about the family home being placed on the market, the more we came to realize that that was where we were meant to be.  


Now most people would just move into the house, no problem.  But if you remember from earlier in the post, we don't quite work that way.  We have some home improvements in the works, thus we probably will not actually be moving until late spring or early summer of 2012.  More photos will typically be included in posts, but I have been meaning to get this thing started for a few weeks, and I just wanted to get this boring first post out of the way before launching in on demo photos, remodeling, construction and such.


Thanks for reading this insanely long post.  Hopefully there will be some pictures up in the next few days. 


God Bless!
Christina