Under Construction

It was a crazy week trying to get our house ready to be moved in to, but we survived and the place is looking really good already.

Here's Kolby helping his grandfather cut some wood for the pantry cabinet that he made for us. We haven't put it in yet, but I know it'll look really great and we're so thankful for Grandfather's hard work!

Our dads/handymen making room for the pantry cabinet.

Kolby using the drill to take the hinges off the doors. Unscrewing hinges that had been painted over for 50+ years was not an easy task!

Me just sanding away at one of the door frames. You never realize how much trim there is in a house until you have to sand all of it!

Here's a picture of Kolby's grandparents, who came in town for a few days to paint our kitchen for us. Thank you, again--- it looks amazing!

When we moved our stuff in on Saturday, Maya recognized all of our furniture instantly and just plopped down in our bedroom like nothing had changed since May! She definitely knew that we were finally HOME.
It was a long series of full days and late nights, but we got all of the sanding and the majority of the painting done before we moved our furniture in (our main goal). There is still a lot of stuff to be done and everything seems to be taking much longer that we anticipated, but we make a little bit of progress every day. We don't have any of the interior doors re-hung yet and all of the new light fixtures that we bought are still in boxes in the garage. At the top of our priority list for the weekend is putting a gate across the driveway so that our backyard is enclosed for Maya and then installing an automatic gate opener for it. We also hope to put in our new pantry cabinet so we can get our kitchen organized.

I'm really excited to put together a photo tour of the house to show everyone, but I want to wait until we get more settled in. Right now there are boxes everywhere and nothing is decorated. It could be a few weeks, but know that I will make it happen at some point!