Well since our house is still unfortunately relatively empty, Jake and John have taken up remote control car racing in our upstairs. I think I need to buy John his own. Forgive Jake's outfit...we went over there when he was still in his jammies :)

We took MY baby furniture from 27 (almost 28 eek!) years ago which my parents have lovingly kept all these years. It was a bit yellowed so John gave it a new coat of white and painted the tops brown. 

The kitchen is coming, slowly but surely. All the lighting is finally in (I think. I may have stopped paying attention) and the appliances are all in place. None of them work yet but that's minor! We are STILL waiting on finishing up our cabinets. We ordered them 3 1/2 months ago, finally got the base parts 3 weeks ago, and we still have no drawers or doors. This is a long story though. Blah.

We put down the dining room floor for family home evening a few weeks ago. The family that lays hardwood together stays together! Right? That is the saying?

This beaut is going in the main floor bathroom. Thank you Downeast :) For now, it has found a home in the guest bedroom.

The still un-named baby's room is almost there. The dressers still need knobs and I need a nice big comfy chair, but not too big since the doorway to the room is only 28 inches. Serious bummer. The orange and brown kids rocker was my brother's when he was little. I won't say how old he is, but it's older than me! I don't feel like I am 'nesting' yet, but that's probably a good thing since I don't technically have a place to 'nest'.

Jake LOVES his room. I don't think he would trade us for ours even though it's tons bigger and has a tv. It is the perfect boy room. When we are working at the house he will go up there and sit on his bed and read books for hours. He is ready to move in.

John spent yesterday meshing and mudding the area for brick. I am so excited about this. I do constantly think about the many ouchies and scrapes that will come from having this in our house but it's worth it. I hope.

John has loved having the opportunity to do all of this work on our house and using all the tools he has stockpiled over the years. We both love that it has US stamped all over it, we've put in a lot of hard work, and that we feel like it is ours. I will just love when we live there.