McD's anyone?

We are still alive and enjoying our new home.    We had a nice visit from Devon on her tour of the world and enjoyed meeting her in person.  I'm afraid we are pretty boring people to visit, though I'm sure I talked her ear off. 

We have all the appliances except the hood installed, all the touch-up painting is done (for now), ceiling fans are up, master closet organizer is installed, and lots more boxes are unpacked.  We just got our stucco color coat today - goodbye grey, hello Trabucco!!!    We got an imperfect smooth texture and our house now reminds me of two scrumptious luxuries: milk chocolate and crushed velvet.  Mmmmm...I just want to wrap myself up in my house. 

Our internet is a little more available now, but only through Kevin's laptop.  Our office computers aren't exactly up and running yet.  And we haven't even touched the common area flooring.  Kevin finished the cedar flooring and baseboards in all the bedroom closets.  Our window treatments have been ordered and we should see everything but the draperies in about two weeks.

Kevin found the camera battery (after Devon's visit, of course - grrrr), so I'll be able to take some pictures of the house and hopefully upload them for you all to get a glimpse. 

Okay - we are finally in our new home! 

It is not quite what I imagined.  I have had images of a completed house with everything in its place.  Instead we look like a warehouse: furniture and boxes everywhere with a half-completed floor.  lol  Kevin wants me to take pictures of our big mess. 

We spent much of our time getting the old house ready for the renters.  Man, that was a lot of work!  We finished up the last of the yard work and garage clean-out yesterday while they were moving in.  Even with all the work we did, we still coughed up more than $500 for cleaning of the house and steam-cleaning of the carpets!    The nice thing about it, is that they have to leave the house in the same state we gave it to them.

We are slowly but surely working our way through the mess.  I started with the livable issues first.  The bathrooms are scrubbed, disinfected and clean (Especially the boys' bathroom that we didn't demolish.  It is the original bathroom, was used throughout the construction, and was DISGUSTING!!! ).  My MIL helped us clean up all the kitchen cabinets (and that is a lot of cabinets!), so all I had left to do was clean up the pantry and the countertops.  Kevin installed the fridge two nights ago and is installing the dishwasher as I type this.    Next he will do the Speed Oven (kind of like a fancy microwave), cooktop, and the washer & dryer (we have been using my in-laws' for our first loads of laundry).  Clothes are all accessible, just hanging in the boys' closets.  lol  Our closet organizer systems (master closet and hall closet) are coming Tuesday in 20 boxes!    I'm not sure where we are going to stick all those boxes, and we still have to finish the closet floor!  I guess I know what else we will be doing today. 

I'm sure I've got more to say, but I have a lot to do.  So I will leave you with this for now.  Thanks for reading! 

My body reminded me of my priorities pretty quickly.    House or no house, my baby needs me...or more accurately, I need him!  *ouch* 

I put Simon, and Andrew to bed at my Dad's house Friday night.  That night, I slept great!  The next day I pumped at lunch time and again right before bed.  Saturday night I was up at 3am pumping, because I was engorged and hurting.  I was pumping again by 6am.    Oh boy, this was getting difficult!  I called my Dad Sunday morning to tell him I was coming for the boys that night!!!  My plan was to spend the night once I got there and come back in the morning, because I knew I would be too tired to come home that night.  Instead, Kevin came with me and even drove both ways!  I am sure glad he likes his coffee. 

The boys did great at my Dad's house and had lots of fun.  Andrew learned how to snap his pants by himself and Simon learned how to say "Meow."    I learned not to be away from your nursing toddler more than 24 hours! 

Kevin, his mom, his dad, his parents' neighbor Willie, and I worked hard on the house all day Saturday and Sunday.  We installed wood flooring in the bedroom hallway and the entryway, and cleaned the kitchen cabinets inside and out.  The wood flooring is very narrow and is slow-going, but is very worth it as it is so gorgeous!  The carpet guys will be here Tuesday morning for the bedrooms and then we can start moving stuff in!!!  I'm already going to start moving some kitchen stuff into the kitchen cabinets today. 

Okay, I think we are all dressed and breakfasted, time to join Daddy at the new house! 

Sorry I've been so absent...

...we've been spending most of our time on the house trying to get finished up and moved in and living there by September 15th, so our renters (who are being kicked out of their current house) can move in.  The boys are spending the weekend at my Dad's  and I miss them already.  I'm crossing my fingers that this won't be too difficult, since Simon is still nursing.  We are doing what it takes because we still don't have all our floors even! 

We still have to polish all our wood (and we have lots of wood - all our trim, cabinets, everything) and clean out the cabinets (so we can start moving stuff over, yay!).  Kevin hasn't even started laying the wood flooring yet,   and it has to be finished in time for the carpet guys to lay the carpet Tuesday morning.  Ack!  Then comes baseboards and bath hardware, and the rest of lighting (Kevin has been doing this every night, so I think he is probably pretty close).  Forget landscaping, back patio, and color-coat stucco until we are moved in!  We still need to take delivery of and install all the appliances, and move in and be living there - all by the 15th!  

I'm sure there are plenty of details I've forgotten, and time's ticking, so I am off to work on the house already!!