Living the Dream

Yes. Yes. We are living in the house.

We are living in the house!!!!

We are almost all moved out.

One more week of moving and cleaning.

Stay tuned for photos of the chaos and mess.

Technical Difficulities

Hi all,

I'm sorry I've been having some blog problems lately. I know it's been going on for a while, but I just didn't have the time to fix it or figure out what was wrong. Today I finally felt like tackling it, and I think I have it worked out now.

Here's my quick update on life:

I put Logan back in school. I published a post about it, but apparently it never published and now it's erased. *sad face

I'm packing us up and we are getting moved over into the town house.

The transmission in the van broke on my way to take Logan to see the ear specialist. It was a very sad day. I'm driving the jeep around now, and we are fine. So many silver linings to find in life, even when it doesn't go the way you think it should.

My dad and mom came and helped us finish the girls' bedroom in the basement and lay carpet in both the kids' bedrooms. We are almost all ready to move in now. Which sounds funny I know, since we are already moving in. But I never thought I'd be building and moving in all at the same time, and yet here I am.

I'm finding it hard to find motivation anywhere. This house-building marathon has had every emotion attached to it, but I'm to the "I'm done" part. I'm serious. I have no problem getting over there and continuing projects and building and mudding and taping, texturing, etc , but when I get home at night, the last thing I want to do is pack. I just want to lay in bed and have a foot rub and eat a piece of bread (because I have no motivation to make dinner).

Anyway, did I mention that the whole basement is dry-walled? Yep. It's all done. It's not mudded or taped, except for the girls' room, but that can happen after we move in.

Also, Brad finally came and almost finished on Saturday! It's a miracle! I hope he finishes before we move in all the way.

There are little miracles all over in my life, and even though we've had to really push ourselves and sacrifice a lot, I know we've been watched over and blessed so much through this whole thing. There have been so many people who have served us and given us a boost through this as well. I'm grateful that people can be so very good and kind, and that families are here to love, support and help. We couldn't have gotten through this without our families.

These were supposed to be white. It's a long story. I'll fix them later.

It's Been a While...

Hey everyone. I know it's been a bit. We've been working hard and trying to get things done around here.

Mostly, I've been spending my days working in the master shower. That thing is a beast. I just grouted the floor this morning, and should finish up the tile tomorrow (you grout the floor before you finish the bottom row of tile on the walls).

I'm packing up the house, and getting ready to move. I feel very up in the air right now, but I know that the worry could eat me up if I let it. So I guess I'll just let go and trust in God's plan for our family. It will all work out.

The summer has flown by, and still Brad has not returned to finish the HVAC. Oh well. It's gonna be a heck of a bill. I just know it will be worth it.

The house is transforming inside and out. We shopped the end of summer nursery sale and got three cheap bushes for the front of the house. Trevor has leveled out all of the dirt mounds outside now and we have grass growing in almost every spot. The trim inside the house is almost finished, and the double doors to the master bedroom are built.

We are working on purchasing gutters for the house now. The carpet is inside the house and ready to be installed in the boys bedroom.

The water heater is installed, but doesn't work. Trevor is working on getting new coils for the water heater this week. Hopefully ASAP because we really need to pass the plumbing inspection.

The ward is supposedly going to be helping us get the tree down in the next couple of weeks as well. I hope!!!

That's all for now. I'm going to get packing. I'll try to get some photos up next time.

Progress Over Perfection