Been a while?

Well, it's been a while since I've been able to post. Lots going on here at the Holloman house!
First, it was the wrap up of school, which meant days of exams and cleaning up. But! School is over and all ended fairly well. Graduation was the 13th and went very well. In and out in about 45 min. Most parents were very well behaved.
Also! I turned 30 on the 10th. Nothing big and fancy. Paul took me out to an italian resturant called Mario's, which I really like thier Shrimp Alfrado. Soo good!
Anyway, easy pie, right? WRONG!!!
Little did I know that my momma had been scheming behind my back, with just about everyone! They threw me a suprise party Friday night! It was really nice. The big suprise was that my best freind from Indiana flew in for the weekend! I couldn't believe that Stacey came!! We had the best weekend of catching up, movies and shopping. I hated that she had to go home.
All of last week and this week I have been driving an hour back and forth to Greenville, NC to work on a grant for school that is with ECU. It's really going to be great but I hate the drive and can't wait for it to be over! I get to take one of my wonderful students, Lori, with me and she has really been enjoying it. Lots of cool field trips and activities for the students that are there!
Next week Paul, Annie and I are heading to Charlotte to visit with his parents and some of our freinds.
Well, that's all for now. I'm going to try and attache some pictures but who knows how that will turn out!
Get back to you soon!!!
Rhi

New Lawn!

So for the last three weeks, it has been crazy trying to move and get settled into the new house. It's still a little caotic so there are no new inside pictures but I did take some from the outside. Here's the story that goes with them.
Last week Paul and I made the decision to not get new living room furniture like we had talked about before we moved. Instead, we decided that we needed to deal with the front yard. Paul could handle the back but the front was going to be way to much for him to deal with on his own or with the help of some hired hands (aka: students we trust to do it right).
A good family freind recommened a landscaper, Kris Lawler, who lives in our neighborhood. He has been absolutly wonderful!
Yesterday, he had a crew come out and re-grade the whole front yard and even fixed the sink hole on the side yard where the septic tank and pump are. He totally fixed the drainage problem we were going to have and tried to level it off as much as he could.
This morning at 5:00 am, the centiped sod was delivered. I only know this because I had been awake since Paul got up at 3 for a bathroom break, then again at 4ish when Annie was growling at the garbage truck and then again with the sod truck. At 6:00am there was a tractor running around the front yard and 4 guys already working.
I don't know what time they actually finished the yard but at 10:30am there were almost to the street. It looks AMAZING!!!! And I'm so glad that we did it. I think that I'm going to try and talk Paul into getting a couple more pallets and doing the side yard where the garage is.
Enjoy the latest set of pictures!


The front of the house from the street. Doesn't it look great?!

Oh! I forgot. There mound of dirt is where we are going to put up a retaining wall and have a flower bed. It's actually where they had to cut down the clump trees after they killed them all off by buring the septic lines in between them all.

I just think this says it all about our builder. Three weeks after we move in and the numbers for the house still haven't been put on. Yes, that is blue painters tape holding them to the front of the house.

Rhiannon :)

We're in!

Oh my goodness! We finally closed on the house and moved. It's really starting to feel like a home instead of a house full of stuff. And! How can two people have SO MUCH STUFF?!?! There were boxes marked "stuff" and "random stuff", how crazy!
Everyone is getting settled in. There are some adjustments to be made, like the leaking kitchen sink and the enormous sink hole where they buried the septic system, but we can at least park in the garage now. Eventually I need to get upstairs and organize that and clean up because moving day was just dump it up there.
We just got our wireless network working again so hopefully this weekend I can get some pictures taken and posted on the web site.
I'll share more later!
Rhiannon

Closing!!!!!

We don't have a set date but we have the go ahead from the bank that we can close whenever the builder is done with the house!!!!! Yay!!!!

So, the builder is down to a one sheet list of stuff that has to be dealt with and we're hoping that we can close the beginning of next week and move over the weekend.

Can't wait to fill you in with the updates!

Rhi

New Pictures!

These are new pictures of the house, as of today.


The front of the house. The driveway is now in!


The kitchen! There are hardwood floors under the paper.


The screened in porch to the backyard and creek/ stream.




I did this the day the laid the concrete.
It's hard to see but it's RR (Rhiannon Rains)
PH (Paul Holloman)
and, of course, Annie!

There are more, but I can only get a couple to load at a time.
Can't wait to be in soon!

Pictures of the house so far.

I need to try and run down there and take some more but these are some of what I have until now.

Hopefully we will be closing and moving soon!

Getting the hang of this.

Alright, trying to get the hang of this thing.
I thought that it would be great to try blogging since we are about to move into the new house. I probably should have done this a year ago when we put the old house on the market but I didn't. We'll see how this works!