Ring in the new year!

Well we really thought we would be in the house by now but whatever your time frame is, triple it. Whatever your budget is, double it (actually we have done pretty well on that yay!) We really have been waiting and waiting and waiting on kitchen cabinets which has been a bummer, but it has also allowed us the time to get some other things done that we may have put off for awhile.

Kitchen Floor:

Entryway: (the white part is just the upside down carpet protecting the floors for now)

Our bedroom is just about done except for some electrical and hanging the fan:

Upstairs bathroom:

Still need to paint the cabinets and put up one wall of wallpaper...

Main Floor Bathroom: Yeah this one is going to be awhile...

Baby's room: (don't mind the cream rug on the crib. It was drying out. 

Plus they sent the wrong size zebra rug.)

John lightly sanded and sealed Jake's floor:

And we finally got our cabinet boxes in! Hopefully we will have all the doors

 and trim pieces by the middle of next week:

I'm excited to get all of the plastic pulled off tomorrow and seal those babies up! I'm not totally sure I'm sold on the floors WITH the countertops WITH the color of the walls WITH the brick, but the only thing that is remotely changeable is the color of the wall so we will wait until all the cabinets and appliances are in to see how it looks.

We have already started moving some things over, but not any of the main furniture stuff. Hopefully by the end of next weeeeeeeeek!

We are such hoarders.

Too Too Excited!

John and Jake have been working on the baby's room for the last few days and I am so excited about it that I'm putting pictures on here before it is even done. Everytime I walk in I make audible squealing noises.

It started like this:

They took the clutter:

 We ripped the carpet out:

Sanded and restained:

Painted and added a chair rail:

And then John proved he is far more talented than I will ever be:



I. LOVE. IT.

Taking our time...

Fortunately (or unfortunately) we haven't had to rush any of this process since we still have a home to live in.

                          We cut a new doorway (although that power box is still there)

                                           Put in some skylights :)

                                               Finally got sheetrocked!
                                                       

                  Built the arch for the brick (time to start putting the kitchen back together)

                              Had our appliances delivered prematurely...

   Tore up the main floor bathroom (which we weren't planning on doing for awhile)

                        Started painting the baby's room (oddly similar to Jake's room here lol)

                                  Putting the kitchen back together from the ground up!

                                      Celebrated Halloween (our least favorite)

                             Helped Grandpa pick grapes to make grape juice...

                            And celebrated 6 years of marriage. I love him more everyday.

We really think everything is going to start coming together quickly from here on out. Hopefully we can have a couple of good weeks and weekends and be moved in by Christmas. Before Christmas. As in by December 11th. That's my goal whether or not it is anyone else's!

Tennis break!

Not much had been going on around the house until this week. The month of September gets ruled by tennis and we don't have much time for anything else.

We put down part of the new hardwood:

                                                  Sanded and stained baby's floor:

                                                       And the mud room floor:



Now we finally have people knocking out walls! The kitchen wall is gone and the ceiling in our bedroom is gone. A dumpster and a half later:

                                                          
                                                   (This framed in part is our closet)



Electricians and plumbers working the rest of this week. Hopefully?