Family Effort

Macy and Ollie..enough said

Kristi and I taking the carpet off the staircase

Jared has been very helpful and encouraging through out this entire process.

Now the fun begins

We are doing some remodeling to our new house. We started with our bedroom. I just realized I don't have any pictures of it. I will post those later. The more settled we are getting the more I am realizing how big this house is. I find myself starting some thing in one room, walking to another room to get some thing, starting some thing in that room, and never returning to what I started in the first place. I love it! Here are a few pictures of what we started this week.

Josh and Jared taking out the ceiling. You will see why we did this later.

Chaia and I knocking out the wall between the living room and the dining room. We are getting rid of the dining room to make a bigger kitchen and living room. The wall is gone. The closet to the left has been removed too. The Kitchen was really small for a house this size and the living room was oddly shaped. Getting rid of that wall is going to make the space more usable.

Moving

We were supposed to close almost two weeks prior to when we closed. Our plans were to use those two weeks to do some remodeling to the house before we moved our stuff in. Things didn't go according to plan. We ended up closing at 4pm on the day we had to be out of our apartment. Thank God for great friends. When we got back from signing our wonderful friends had moved every thing out of our top floor apartment. Josh and I were both shocked and grateful! All we had to do was clean and move stuff into our house.

Tommy supervising

Chaia made sure every thing was going smoothly while we were gone. She is a God send!

We can't even begin to express our gratitude to every one who helped move. We know it was no fun, hot, and tiring.

Taking a break and enjoying some Buffalo Wild Wings.

FINALLY

We finally signed on the house last Thursday. We could write a book about our loan process. It was crazy. Things are definitely different than they were four and a half years ago when we bought our house in Wilson. It will be a very long time if then before we buy another house. Thank you God it is over with!