Torture

We didn't make it in the new house by Christmas. I was hoping to have a New Year's bash there... but that's not happening either. Dang. Without going into details of who and what are holding us up, let's just say we're working on it. The race is on- which will finish first, interior or exterior? It's going to be a close one. I'll keep you posted.

Cabinets!!!
I love my cabinets. I don't know what I like more, the rounded island with wood bent around the arc or the clean white lines... I just love them.



Here's the master bathroom- I'm really excited about this. Our toothbrushes will have their very own tilt drawer! My blowdryer will have it's very own spot! The hairspray, medicine, curling irons, etc. will all have a place... heaven.

This is the fireplace, it was just done yesterday. There will be a mantle in that empty spot.

We're getting there. The 'to-do' list seems to never end, but it's getting there. Today the carpet is coming, by the end of the week we're getting countertops, the exterior is coming along (I'll have to post a couple pictures of it, it's cool!), and we're still really hoping to be in by Christmas. I'll keep you posted!

Progress

Tile!

Paint!

Floors!

Guess what's coming tomorrow.... !!!!!

Chubby Cheeks

Normal.

Not Normal.

Poor little Teah had some dental work done yesterday and her little cheeks poofed right out. She's been a trooper, though. Her pride is a little hurt, she prays for her cheeks to not be poofy anymore, but she's eating, sleeping and playing like normal.

Rock ROCKS!

The exterior rock is done! For those who know rock, we chose a Harristone mix of Chief Joseph and Uintah in the Cape Cod color. The rest of the exterior will be covered in a deep maroon/red board and batten except for the gables (the triangles above the front door) which will be light tan shakes. Interested to see that? Me too. We're excited!

Sheet rock ROCKS, too. Our house feels more like a house with the walls up.

Above is the kitchen: picture a sink under the middle window on the left (kitchen sink view in above picture... ladder will be removed), the gorgeous white cabinets along the sink wall, all along the back wall and continuing on the wall on the right in a desk area. In the middle of the kitchen will be the island in a dark walnut stained wood. The cooktop will be in the middle of that island facing the camera, and we'll have about 6 barstools on the other side of the island in a half circle facing the cooktop. The kitchen area will be painted in a light blue while the rest of the house will be "packing nut" (a shade of tan).

Here we have the girls' room. On the top is their bedroom-- the little cubby holes on the left are some built in 'night stands' where we'll put a shelf for their stuff. Beds will come off the wall on either side of the 'night stands', the room will be a sky blue and the ceiling white. The other picture here is taken standing in the girl's closet. It's the thing that's raised on the right. We'll figure out shelving of some sort in there, as well as along that back wall and on the left. On the bottom of the back wall we'll have a mini cabinet door covering the little opening... opening to what? Why, a fun little secret play room, of course! (it's the little room pictured here with the sloping ceilings.) Once we got the trusses on we saw there was a cool little room here, but the only was to access it was through a little crawl space (if we cut any other opening, the house might have fallen down). So we decided to make it a fun little space for the girls!

The rest of the house just looks like walls. While I love it and everything, it didn't make such great photography/blog material, so I'll get those in when there's more to show. Thanks for checking in on us!

I don't have a full length mirror... obviously

I used to wonder why LeRoy would shake his head at me when I would come home from work (reffing High School volleyball). So I had Teah take a picture to see just how bad it really was... oooooh my! If anyone needs a scary Halloween costume, give me a call and it's all yours!

A little preview

Watch out this Halloween, Hannah's in town!