Chaos

Our house is a mess right now. Even still, it's been nice to have our own space, messy as it may be. We still have a lot of work to do on the cabinets. After that, we can unpack the kitchen and that will make things much easier. Right now, we have a working fridge, sink, oven (not the range), and microwave. So we are able to cook, but nothing that requires too many real dishes or a range. I hate washing dishes, and without a dishwasher, I avoid using too much stuff that needs to be washed. ;)
Our room and our clothes are fairly well in place and I got the bathroom nearly ready to go on my days off. Taking showers is a really nice thing. I can even see myself in the mirror that is back on the wall.
Titus has his crib back and he loves it! He is up high and he has a bouncy mattress. He loves to bounce.
Titus got his 1 year shots today. He did so well. He also had to get blood drawn. He did try to bite the poor girl drawing his blood, but at least she didn't get stuck. Bad news is, I got a call from her this afternoon that one tube clotted, so we have to go through all that again. He didn't get sick this time around, so it was good overall.
We went to Sears to get pictures taken and the whole experience was a disater. They were running behind, the guy didn't move very fast, he was the only one working there. He wasn't even a good photographer. He literally demonstrated where I should sit after Tim was already in place. This put him in Tim's lap! Weird. Oh, and he smelled bad. I finally got aggravated enough to leave without even seeing the pictures. So I have to make another appointment to see them. If they're not worth buying, we're going to have someone else do them. I'll keep you posted as soon as there is something available for order.
I think I have ramblled on long enough for this post. More later. Have a blessed day!

We moved in!

We have finally moved into our house! Boxes are still everywhere, but we are sleeping n our own bed. We don't have internet over there yet, so my posts may be a little far between for a while. I'll post pictures when I can. We getting pictures done of Titus tonight, so we'll have a link to those too. Talk to you all soon!

Titus' Birthday Party

Titus turned 1 on Saturday. I had great plans to get up early and hang baloons over his bed like my mom always did for us when we were kids. I even got them ready before I went to bed. Turns out, I did get up early, at 3 am to his screaming, to find he had a fever. We spent the rest of the night in the recliner, with no baloons. :-( I had to give him Tylenol all day but he finally perked up a little before the party.
Everything else turned out so well. My parents got to come down, with no delayed flights. We decorated everything in Curious George. The cake turned out really well and we had a really nice turnout from a lot of our friends from church. I'll post some pictures of everything soon. I have to get them from the camera (and the grandparents' cameras) to the computer. Thank you to all who brought and sent gifts. They were all so nice. Stand by for thank you cards. I hope to work on that today.

Our "new" house

I'm going to try and post some pictures when I get home this morning, but I can tell you a little about the house we purchased. We closed on April 18, so we have been working on it a while. It was a bank foreclosure and we knew it needed some work and quite a bit of cosmetic updating, but as most remodels go, the more we tore out, the more we needed to tear out.

The previuos owner loved pink and teal. There was mauve carpet all over the house. We ripped all of that out, just to find nasty pad that indicated they must have had pets. We thought that we would try staining the concrete unitl we realized there was old schoolhouse tile underneath with glue that last forever. We thought we were in an expensive mess at that point, but God blessed us with an amazing deal on laminate wood flooring, so we bought enough for the living and dining room, the hall and the master bedroom. Tim has since placed all that with the help of his dad and our friend Nick. It looks really good. The floors in the kitchen and baths were nasty peel and stick tile. We slowly chipped all that up and replaced it with ceramic tile. That came out really nice. We left the carpet in the other 3 bedrooms and had it cleaned. I think that will do for now.

Tim has spent a lot of time working on plumbing. I am very grateful the he and Mark (his dad) were able to get thinks fixed. My parents came early in the summer and helped with all the sheetrock work that needed to be done. We have been painting like crazy and we're still not done. I went a little crazy making sure I had some color in the house after renting white walls for so long. I'll put pictures up of all that. Titus' room is going to be airplanes.

The yard still needs a lot of work. I hope to get to that in the fall. if not then, the spring. We have to replace the fence and we have a lot of debris to haul off. Our furniture and all of our other belongings that have been in storage for 6.5 months arrive Sunday. It's pretty much like they left it because I have been at work all week, but I have some days off and I hope to be staying there within the next week.

I'm excited for the after pictures. They will be coming soon. I'm excited to be comfortable in my own space again and I excited to be able to cook and sew and scrapbook again. All in all it has been a blessing and I'm glad we were able to get this house, but it has definitely been at lot of work.