Amy & Cheyenne

Our Land!

A few weeks ago Cheyenne and I acquired 5.8 acres of land in Cedar Hill, TN! Cedar Hill is between Pleasant View and Springfield. We are very excited and hope to start building in the spring, but that will also depend on when we sell our house and how the economy is doing at the time. It's only 33 miles from downtown, so it will take Cheyenne and I the same amount of time to drive to work that it does now. Plus, it's only 12 miles from Granny! :)

In the meantime Cheyenne has been busy mowing and weedeating his little heart out. Needless to say, he is in heaven! We're very excited about this as there is no one on one side of us, behind us, or in front of us. There is one lone house to the right of the land, but they are tucked back a ways on their land, so you can hardly see them from our property.

Here are some pictures of the land, although it's just land, so it's hard to have a lot of good pictures that really show it well.

If you're driving down Ridge Road, you'll go around a curve. This is the beginning of that curve and our property. The driveway will most likely be here.

We have a ton of road frontage! Here's a view from the road. We plan to put the house far back on the property. It it were built now, it would be in the right corner of this picture.

Here is the view if you are standing in the back of the property and looking out toward the road. See how there is nothing on the land across the street? That's awesome! We know one day there probably will be something there, but right now it's zoned as agriculture, so I think we're safe for awhile.

Here's another part of the road in front of the land. Our land is on the right of the road....

My Super Handy Talented Husband

Cheyenne has been working on a deck for a co-worker of his for the last few weeks. He finished up a few weeks ago. He built the entire deck himself AND it was the first deck he's ever built! Isn't he talented!?!?!?! I'm going to start pimping him out to other people for various household/handyman projects, so if anyone's interested, just let me know. :)

BEFORE PICTURES

AFTER PICTURES

Spring gardening!

Two weekends ago, Cheyenne and I decided the outside of our house needed some sprucing up, so we did some gardening. It took us alllllllll day, but we got it done!

This is the front of our house before we started. There was an exsisting flower bed there, we just never really used it. There was once a small tree in the middle of it, but it died.

I also wanted to plant flowers by the mailbox, so I dug out a small flower bed next to it.

My thumb is so green I can even grow Labradors! :) hahaha!

And here's the after picture. You can't tell much here b/c a lot of what we planted still needs to grow, but we planted some Hosta along the sidewalk, those are the green leaves. We also planted a white azalea bush and a white rhodedendron (sp?) as well. We also planted the crazy little tree in the middle that kind of looks like bamboo, kind of looks like a palm tree, we're not really sure what it is, but we're excited to see how it turns out. :)

My dog-free flower bed

I took these pictures of our azalea bushes yesterday. They're already starting to bloom!

Ok, so this post was kind of lame with our garending and all, but that's what our life is these days! :)

Amy's 15 minutes of Fame!

So here it is, I'm famous today! This article was on the cover of the Business section in the Tennessean today. My 15 minutes of fame have arrived! :) hahaha!

Although, they only used 1 quote from my interview! So they totally plaster this huge picture in the paper, but I'm only quoted once! They are totally using me for my stunning good looks! :) Kidding! hahaha!

Our lives have been fairly busy. I just started another homestand that will go until next Thursday, so I basically have no life until next weekend. This weekend Cheyenne is finishing a deck for a co-worker that he's been building for a few weeks. I'll post pictures of it soon, it's really good! Hope everyone has a great weekend!