remember that wedding stuff...?!

We never actually brought most of our wedding presents that were shipped to us into our apartment. There just wasn't any room! We've been keeping them at David's boss's house (I think I did those possessives right!) until we had a place of our own that had more space. We have our space now so it was off to the boss's house for our gifts. Instead of unpacking the dishes we've been using we left them boxed up and are donating them to a women's shelter in central Phoenix that always needs kitchenware (among other things). We met up with Gina and Max to help us load up our car.





While we were unloading we ran into the mailman and asked about getting our lock fixed. We haven't been able to get into our mailbox because the key doesn't work right. After explaining how to pronounce David's last name (it's Italian, not Spanish...) the mailman told us we had to go down to the post office, fill out a form, pay $40 and the guy would change it out.

After that lovely encounter it was off to unpacking all the boxes! It was like the day after the wedding all over again! We really had to figure out where different items were going and ended up rearranging almost all of our kitchen in order to get all our items in a logical place. I must say it's been nice to eat out of bowls again. I've been eating my breakfast cereal out of tupperware for the time being. :)





Now our weekends consist of us finishing up some project around our place. I'm not complaining one bit! Even my mom came over to help us get our flower beds in order. Turns out I still don't know much about gardening (should've listened more to my great-grandmother Hazel). We just bought our last toilet for our 3rd bathroom and 2 motion-detector lights for our front and back doors. While David worked on installing the back patio light I finished up taking all of our tools that were inside piled high on a temporary table out to our storage shed area.

This past weekend we finally installed new door locks on our front and back doors after David dremmeled off the lockbox. We only ran into one problem- having both door knobs on the security door and front door do not let us close one of the doors. They run into each other about an inch before the 2nd door closes. For now we just took the door knob off the front security door and we'll figure out how to fix that mess.

This weekend we're off to get our King size bed (David's happy for that!) and possibly a kitchen table and chairs. Our handyman friend George will be back over in a few days as well to help us fix up the bathroom walls so everything will be good to go in there.

BTW: we made a short video to show off what the birdhouse looks like at this moment. Downstairs only at this point. Upstairs will be version 2. Check it out! (You can also find us on youtube by typing mudacorsa in the search)