Welcome Home!

Sorry it's been a while--we've been working, working, working! Here's the updates!!

We closed on our beautiful new home on Monday, May 12th. Everything went smoothly and wonderfully, which is always a good thing! Monday evening we picked up my mom from the airport--yeah! It was a great day! We had a party Monday evening--nothing says I Love You like power tools!! :) And, add to that Lasagna that takes 2 hours to cook--nothing better!
Thanks Mom!

Tuesday, May 13th, the moving company arrived and unpacked the truck! Funny how when you live in a 650 square foot apartment everything seems so small, and when you move to a big 'ol house it feels so huge! The move went pretty good, as far as we can tell thus-far. A few things got broken or torn, but we get to file some claims so hopefully everything will be repaired or received new!

We wasted no time lolly-gagging around--Wednesday we got right to work painting and decorating and putting stuff away! Only one room left to unpack as of today--and our downstairs looks awesome! Upstairs needs a lot of work, but you can't have it all at once, right? :) We worked and worked and worked all through the week and weekend and everything we accomplished is BEAUTIFUL! Here are some before and afters!

We refinished all of our bedroom furniture--this is the only before we have, unfortunately, but the end result is beautiful!


Our Family Room

And Kitchen

Here are the afters--unfortunately the lighting was bad in some of them (SAD!) so the Kitchen pictures are better then the Family pics! However, the two short movies capture it well enough...

Katelyn has been having such a great time exploring our new house--she took to the stairs like I take to candy! And we invested in a pool for the back yard--so huge and luxurious!
(At least for Katelyn! :)


It was so great to have my mom here to help us get organized and celebrate our new home! Meg, Mike's sister, comes to visit this weekend and then I'm going to try and convince anyone else who wants to come, to come! Come visit!!

And, here's one of my favorite moments from all week! Grandma's are the best!!



And last, but certainly not least, here's a shout-out to my dad and the kids at home (lets be honest though, mostly my dad...) Thanks for being so selfless and keeping up with all the mega-crisis that happened this week! I was so grateful that mom got to stay, even when she was really, really, really needed at home! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

And Aunt Suzanne,
you're the absolute best for cleaning up gunk and crud all night, over and over again...
You're my hero!