The kitchen is my favorite room in the house. It is the most transformed room. Josh built this table. 
The living room furniture I ordered arrived. The house is finally starting to feel like a home. I am still waiting on my curtains to be finished and searching for art work.
We went away to the mountains for a few days. It was a nice getaway. We didn't work on the house at all during September or October.
We celebrated 80 wonderful years of life to both my grandma and grandpa King. We threw them a surprise birthday party.
We meet everyone at the Myrtle Beach for a few days. Heath, Paige, the girls, Tony, Lisa, Brandon, Grandma, Grandpa, Kristi, Josh, and me.
Looks like a completely different house.
Here's the final exterior changes.
Added a porch to the front.
We had the outside painted.
We went to Topsoil Beach for the night to see Mike and Connie. 
After the funeral we all went back to Dad's one last time.
Heath built a memorial where Dad died.
Flooring is complete downstairs.
We added these french doors going into the downstairs bedroom.
Josh built this one night when I went home to see my mom and dad. Little did I know this bed swing was going to become my dwelling place.
Yard of the Month...after a lot of trimming, cutting down, and sewing sod. 
This was one of my last visits with my dad before he died. He came in for Easter and stayed all weekend. I hadn't planned on working on the house while he was here but he wanted to help. Before he left we planted this garden. It lived all summer and produced beyond what I expected. The day I had to pull it up was very emotional.
He helped Josh put in our microwave. As he was helping he managed to dent my brand new stove. I didn't get upset because I knew over the years I had messed up a lot of his stuff....it was just pay back. He was going to order me a new plate but I told him not too. I'm so thankful because everytime I cook and see the dent I think of this weekend we spent together.
Trying to get the dent out.
We put the tile backsplash in.
The kitchen is almost complete.
Finally finished after a day of back breaking labor.
The process of putting the flooring in for the kitchen.
Flooring for the kitchen
March was very productive for us. Looking back on these days makes me so thankful for flooring. This is how we watched tv for awhile.
We put the railing in
The ceiling in the kitchen is getting close to being finished.
We closed in the pantry and put shelving in.
The porch on the house was weird so to maximize space we pushed the front porch out to make it even with the front of the house. It added about 12 feet to the inside of the house. We needed this extra footage for a foyer. Before you walked straight into the steps that go upstairs. This spring we are going to add a real front porch and paint the outside.
We also busted out the wall that went into one of the bedroom downstairs. We are going to put french doors in and use it as a office. The old entrance to the bedroom was off the kitchen.
Here is a picture of the cofferd ceilings Josh has built in the kitchen. I will get an updated one of them finished.
As you can see we have been living in a mess! Here we had to remove the sliding glass doors (which we were planning on doing any way just not when we did) we found out that the header across the back side of the house was completely rottening through. So Josh removed it and replaced it. We also removed the fireplace because it was no longer in the center of the room after we moved the living room wall.
We replaced the sliding glass doors with french doors.
Here is the kitchen and dining room.
I love the kitchen! We have to tile the backsplash but other than that the kitchen is almost finished. Not having a kitchen for almost 2 months was pretty hard. Glad those days are behind us!
The old kitchen was awful!
What have we gotten ourselves into?
We moved the old kitchen cabinets into the garage.
