Week One Down

So many of you that know me know that I place cleaning (the real get on your hands/knees scrubbing kind...well most any kind actually) very very low on my list of important things to do. I enjoy things being sorta picked up, but I really like living in a house that is lived in. There is nothing I hate more than walking into a house and it looking like a show house, not like someone actually abides in it! Maybe part of that feeling is just plain envy that I can't have a house that looks like its from the pages of Pottery Barn, but I really think its just because I like "homey." Jason and I have rented our prior two residences so I haven't been overly anal about cleaning them, but now we have our own place that we have struggled through making it our own and we love it! So after having the carpet installed for one week, it got it's first vacuuming with my super fancy vacuum (which doesn't get tons of use, but I love my dyson and suggest that everyone buy one, they are so worth the money!). I truly wonder how long it will last, but I feel some accomplishment about the success of week one!

Fall Fun

Kadyn enjoying some leaf time

Throwing leaves

Isaac's great smile after he jumped in the first time

Rehabbing and moving into a new house that has a HUGE tree in the front yard would have been amazing in the summer, but moving in November means that the leaves that fell off that huge tree really had no chance of making it anywhere but on the ground. That would be fine in my eyes, but everybody on our street has some fancy "tool" to take care of their leaves (or they just pay someone else with some fancy tool to do the work!)...that is until we moved in! We really just kept putting it off and then when we were walking out one day and one of our neighbors, who happens to be a college student renting the house next to us with two of his college student buddies, asked me if it was okay if he raked our leaves!!! So, he raked all of our leaves for us and told Isaac that he would jump in them with him when he was done. We did go out and help put them in 12 giant construction trash bags after some fun time with the kids. It was a great opportunity to meet one of our neighbors and great to see a 22 year old college kid (coming from the 27 year old!) being generous!

Isaacisms

Isaac is ever changing. It amazes me to see him becoming an independent little man. Here are two cute things he said when we were getting ready to move that I had written down and put in a place I wouldn't forget!!! That usually means that I won't be able to find it for at least a month...it only took a week this time, so here they are...

"Mom, I'm finished with this box, we've been working really hard, let's take a break."

"This would be much easier if we used a fork lift, next time we go to Lowe's that should be on the list too."

Living room painted with carpet

Kitchen getting closer to being completed

First several nights in our new bedroom were like this, I felt like we were camping!

Our bedroom with carpet, furniture and our great computer closet!

Will get some more pics posted later, have a great Thanksgiving!

Forgive me

We just got the internet at our new house so I promise I will get some pics updated soon. We are moved in and got our carpet laid yesterday which was a HUGE relief, the playroom is already in full use. Our bedroom and the living room are painted and look great, we are excited to get the rest of the walls painted too. The kitchen is beginning to be usable, but hopefully we will get a chance to finish our make-shift counter tops tomorrow and the cabinet doors will be done in the next few weeks. We are all exhausted, but the kids have adjusted relatively well. We are looking forward to having the parents over to this side of the state for Thanksgiving, they just don't know it's really going to be a "work day" and wish that Nate, Danielle, and Jonah could come too!

Pretty Tile

Here is a video of our crazy kids dancing on our new tile (love miss kadyn's booty dance). It is beautiful to see both our home coming together and our family together again, we have really missed being with one another. I worked today at 11 so this morning we just spent some time together and actually got to relax. Jason and the kids were cuddling in bed reading books while I was getting ready and it brought tears to my eyes to see/hear how much our kids cherish their daddy. He is an amazing husband and father and all the work he has put into making our new house our home has been priceless. Our parents have been working every weekend, which is appreaciated, but my husband has been there every day even when he was sick and we can't wait to enjoy all his handy work, we love you!

Almost Done

We are almost done!! We have gutted the kitchen and replaced everything (including finishing the cabinets ourselves and moving around the sink/appliances), torn out walls between the master/4th bedroom, put in new walls for our new bathroom (to be done when money allows) and walk-inish closet, closed off the door between the master and the hall bath, put new tile in kitchen and dining room, rewired the entire house, installed 18 new can lights, new lights in the dining room/kadyns room and it seems like there is more. All the project have just finish work to be done, but we are getting really close and it's a good thing, we move in this Sunday!!!! Our carpet won't be in before we move in b/c it's on back order, but oh well...we can manage! The kids have been troopers, but as you can see, Kadyn is a little tired of not getting our full attention. I will get more before/after pics up as we finish stuff, but we are really excited about our first house and making it all our own. Thanks to both of our parents and our good friends Jon, Linsie, and Jeremy (and his dad Rusty) for taking so much of their time to help us out!