134 days later...

134 days- the number of days we did not sleep in our own beds! That's almost 4 1/2 months! Saturday we wrangled/coerced/bribed/begged (however you choose to look at it) our family and friends to once again come help us move all of our belongings and a lot of crap I never knew I had, back into the house. It is livable, but there is still a ton of work to be done. The floors on the first floor are not finshed yet, there are two full baths upstairs- neither of which have any working parts- so we use the sink and toilet downstairs (showered at my parents house this a.m. on my way to work!), there are no shelves- ANYWHERE! - that needs to get done very soon or I'll never empty any of the boxes! -we still have to stain all the doors, so some are hung with or without knobs, but not stained- just to contain little girl and to hopefully keep those few shreds of sanity that Mommy has left! I know there are many other things to list that are not done yet, but I don't want to depress myself- not that I could remember them all anyways! :P


Since I've been slacking on updating this for so long (not that I haven't had anything going on...), I decided to make this blog a picture montage. This first one is Lily's "new trick"- going behind furniture- she thinks it's sooo funny - until she gets stuck! It's so darn cute though, it's hard not to laugh.
Here is our future electrician checking out the inside of Daddy's work truck. He actually had picked up the carpeting pad on the way home from work and Lily was sitting between a few of the rolls. London is sniffing out the situation down in the corner.
Here is the tub "in the works" of "so easy, women and children could do it" (see last blog). It is complete now, as well as the floor. Well, almost- Chad thinks the grout is too light (not done yet in this pic) so we're going to stain it, then have to seal that and the floor and then the plumber will be back on Tuesday to finish his work. Oh, I also made us more work by accidently grabbing 2 different boxes of bull nose tile- we were only 4 short so just finished those up after the rest of the tub was done. Saturday morning our brother-in-law was finishing up the grout on the floor and the last 4 seams of the tub- Chad asked me to go find the tub grout- well, long story short- I grabbed the wrong color- so, tonight I get to chip out the grout (luckily only in those 4 seams), re-grout with the correct stuff and then stain all of it. We'll probably seal it Tuesday (luckily my day off) before the plumber comes that evening! Yeesh!
Lily was "helping" my Mom make treats for every one that would be helping us move on Saturday. It looks like she's trying to share with Grandma, too.
Here is the view from the mudroom into the kitchen to see the beginning of the cabinet/countertop installation.

Here is the same view after installation and move-in! Note all the boxes/bags, etc. - everywhere!

This is the view of our living room after move in - from standing where the kitchen table will go.

Rotate 45 degrees and the view back towards to mudroom and entryway.

Lily "helping" Daddy put the desk together in the office.