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.

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!