Lost

The last few months of my life have been crazy. Busy. Stressful. Fun. Evolving. But it's over. The house is done. I don't have that routine of waking up and thinking about what needs to get done that day reguarding the house. Putting out the fires of what couldn't get accomplished or had to be changed. Stressing over where to put phone jacks or how square a wall really is. Then rushing home to play the role of mommy and catching up on everything that didn't get done during the day that is due tomorrow. Homework. Ball games. Quailty time with my kids. It never ends.

Now things are back to "normal". A new kind of normal. A boring normal. Boring to me at least. The last few boxes were unpacked this morning. Closets are starting to be organized. Everyone is settling into this new normal. But I have to admit. I feel a little lost. My project of building our house is over. Now what? Don't get me wrong. I'm enjoying my cuddle time with Sadie and just relaxing in the fruit of my work. But I'm getting bored. I need a new project. I need a new passion. A new something. Something to bring me back from feeling lost. Any ideas?

Have you missed me?!?!

It's been a long, busy, crazy, insane month since I've posted!!! We are finally moved into our new house. Record time too! 1 week short of 5 months. How crazy is that!?!?! Here are a few pics of the final product.

The basement before furniture was moved in.

The kitchen jsut after the kids got on the bus this morning.

Ms. Princess Sadie's room. Notice that there is no bed. She is sleeping in our room until Craig gets more comfortable with her being further away. =)

Cody's room. Can you tell that he is an OU Sooners fan? My mom made the headboard. She did an awesome job. Still need to hang up some pictures and a clock in his room.

I'll post some more pictures when I get time next week. And when the girls have thier rooms cleaned!

Happy Birthday Halie!!!

Happy birthday to a sweet wonderful and very helpful daughter! Love you so much Halie!!!!

Happy Birthday Sadie!!

Seven months ago there were moments, minutes and even hours that we didn't think that we would get to celebrate this day. Praise God that we are able to enjoy today and every moment that we have with her. We are so blessed to have Ms. Sadie is our lives. She has brought more joy and understanding to life than we could have expected. Every day is a new adventure with her. And we are loving EVERY moment of it! Happy birthday to the sweetest 2 year old I know. We love you very much Sadie.

PICTURES!!

Her are the pictures that I promised. We will start with paint. We had a lot of people show up to help paint. The garage alone took 3 hours to prime. Here is a picture of the color that Halie picked out. It really fits her personality.

Bathroom. laundry roon and bar cabinets have been installed too. Here are the base cabinets in the laundry room.

My brother Josh and I spent a whole afternoon building the deck for my tub and installing it. No fun. But it is done.

Ironing board and cabinet are stained and varnished. Just waiting to be installed.

Fished dropped by a couple of weeks ago to do the final instal on the fireplace/ It is ready to be used.

Yesterday the boys were able to trim out the basement. I'm glad to see it start going on the walls and getting off of my floor!

Dad and Craig started hanging ceiling grid yesterday also. It will be nice to have the panels up.

Here are Joe and Josh putting up the bi-fold doors on the closets.

My free pantry door!!!!! Love it!

UPdate with no pictures....yet!

We have been VERY busy since my last blog. Unfortunately I don't have time to upload any pictures right now. But I will soon. I promise! Since the last time I wrote we've finished painting (except for touch ups). Halie's room will crack you up. It is so her personality! We've also finished all of the electric except for 2 lights, hung all cabinets except for kitchen cabinets (which are being custom built), ordered trim, stainined and varnished trim, hung doors, put up ceiling fans, finished brick and I'm ordering carpet and tile this morning. That's a lot in a couple of weeks!! The plan this week is to finished all varnishing and to hang trim. Kitchen cabinets will be installed this weekend too. Everyone keeps asking when we are going to move in. I don't know. I know what I hope and what would be the perfect time between work, school and everything else. But I'm not making any promises to myself. I'm sticking to my original answer of " We would like to move in by my birthday, February 23rd. But if the house is finished sooner that would be great!". Let's hope for that. Pictures soon to come!!!

Almost There....

Mud and tapers came last week. It's taken them a while because the mud hasn't been drying very well due to the weather. Today is thier last day though.
All in all they did a pretty good job.

My brick is finally tied together!! Bill is just about done with it. This should be his last week. He still has what is left in this picture, the porch, steps and columns.

On Saturday we blew the insulation in the attic. It was a nasty and awful job. So glad that it is done. Craig was being silly before he climbed up in the attic.

It took 150 bags to cover the whole attic to the R value that we wanted. That is a TON of insulation.

Today the finishers are doing the knock down ceiling. Tomorrow we are painting!!! Cabinets are here too. Should be installing those this weekend. I'm ordering trim this week. Staining and varnishing will take a while. Then it's flooring, guttering, finishing dirt work, finish plumbing, finish electrical, deck and driveway. Still a ways to go.