Friday, August 7, 2009

Time for a...

CELEBRATION!

Yep, we passed our inspection yesterday and we get to start moving in!! We are so, soo, sooo excited to actually start moving in. My mind is already stuck in decorating mode and we haven't even moved a single box in yet. I may go ahead tonight and order the kids new bedding & bathroom decor if I get a minute, I've been "researching" it for what seems like forever. Even though it seems as if we've been in building mode for a while now (almost 2 years!), it doesn't seem "real" to be moving in and decorating yet either. Confusing, huh? :)

The kids are out of school today so we're trying to get organized, sorted and packed up. I've made countless Goodwill donation trips this week, along with trips to the dump, in an attempt to be half-way organized packer atleast. Of course, I'm not claiming to be the best packer ever (my old packing style was actually throwing everything in trash bags at the last minute, lol) but we're actually getting a lot packed up in boxes today. I actually packed everything up in the kitchen so nice & neat only to realize that ALL the oven mitts & eating utensils were in there -- and the kids needed lunch, oops! ;)

But hopefully we can get quite a bit moved in this weekend -- with only the big things left, until we can get some help moving those down; that's the goal anyway. There is still work to be done on the outside of the house to get it 100% complete, but it'll be nicer that we can all be together as a family while it's getting done. It's been a long 2 years and we're all ready to move in and enjoy life as a complete family again. We won't know how to behave with a true "home" again and a daddy/husband who doesn't have to work all day and then work all night too. We're all tired and cranky but way beyond excited too. Woohoo!

Thursday, August 6, 2009

It's finally time for...


Well, not really Inspector Gadget... but I thought he was fitting for this post. We're finally ready for our *final* electrical inspection (wow!). It will happen today, and it's so stressful wondering how it will turn out.

David worked so hard on putting all the electrical wiring in himself (no, he's not an electrician by trade). It was hard work and there were days that I thought we'd surely never be done... I'm sure he felt the same way when things didn't go right. It was overwhelming and time consuming to say the least. And you definitely don't want to rush something as important as all the electrical, no skimping there for sure -- can we say, um, housefire? Whew, no thanks. But it's all over with now, or so we hope anyway.

I'm keeping my fingers & toes crossed that we pass this inspection today... and we can get to moving in! I can't believe it's almost move in time -- like legal moving in time! ha ha

Hopefully I will post the good news later today. Feel free to cross your fingers (or toes!) for us. :)

Monday, August 3, 2009

We can finally see the light!

Sorry I haven't updated recently. We've been working hard towards being able to move in -- but we still aren't there yet. :( Between all of Davids tools being stolen from the house and the crazy amounts of rain that we've gotten for the past 2 weeks... it's just not been happy around here at all. We are finally starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel though. Yay!

In the meantime, here are some new pictures that I took last week. Even more things have been completed since then so I'll take new pictures soon. :)


Here are some random shots from around the house...

After the granite was set & kitchen sink installed. We have since put on the cabinet knobs & pulls (that we found at Target!), I'll post those pics next time. Oh, and the dishwasher is in now too. ~


I can't wait to use my new stove! I love it. ~

The new fridge, oh how I've missed the icemaker with crushed ice! Lame, I know. I'm excited about this fridge space, I can stash my cakes (my hobby) in here with no problem! ~

This is the new light in the dining room. It's sooo big but turned out looking great!


The 2 pendant lights are a great touch for over the island ~


And here are the stairs after finally being stained, we went darker on the posts. They turned out great! The painter still has to paint the white under the steps (the stoop?)



We installed the ceiling fan in our master bedroom. David picked it out because it has an antique look to it. I wasn't too sure about it (it's red, coupled with our blue wall and ivory ceiling... reminds me of our flag, lol) but it turned out really nice and it looks great.




The tile in the master shower looks great. Now we're ready to order the glass door for it. :)




Here is the shower seat. The tile is actually being grouted tonight - so watch for new pics soon!


David hung up the lights on the porch and put in the can lights too...

And we got someone to do some grade work -- it's starting to look like a real house now... no more dirt piles or porta-potties around! Yep, the porta-potty is GONE, finally! And we'll soon be putting in the real front door, it's purdy! :)
And the HVAC units are awesome, so nice & quiet. Which is great considering they are so close to our bedroom window.
We went last week (after the stolen tools) and bought new faux wood blinds for every window. It stinks because I was looking forward to having such wonderful views without blinds -- but after having a "creep" come and steal from us, I think I'll feel better having them up. They look great too! Not nearly as bad as I'd thought.

There's the run down for now. I'll update again with new pics. Keep your fingers (and toes!) crossed that we'll make it for inspection this week. The inspector only works 2 days a week... so it's very, very important that we can get him out ASAP and that we pass. Then we'll finally get to move out of our rental house and can start making this house a HOME! Woohoo!!!! :)