Super (cute) Kids

For VBS this year, our church did a superhero theme.

As you can tell, our kids really, really got into it.

"I Feel Connected..."

Okee dokee, this is the final, completed, finished house with my car in the driveway as if I finally belong there :)

Oh yeah, they installed the sod a couple days after we moved in. The first week of the entire year that it DIDN'T rain and was 90-95* every single day. So, there's some yellow spots. Big deal.

Moving the stupid sprinkler every 5 minutes for an hour=yellow spots. We'll live with it.

Her Highness's Room
A few weeks ago, we made it to the closest IKEA to us, with a truck, and we had like an hour there. How heartbreaking. I did happen to pick up the cute little canopy for Lili. And, that was about it :(

Our kitchen, painted green. If you notice that the backsplash isn't looking so hot, not to worry, at some point we'll be installing subway tile.....

One view of our basement which has been a total lifesaver. If our builders hadn't finished our basement family room, I'd probably STILL be at Meemaw and Peepaw's....just kidding mom and dad (who are breathing a HUGE sigh of relief and thanking our builders profusely!)

Our Big Lots sofa....after a couple weeks of sitting on a basement floor, and knowing that Big Lots is 2 minutes away, well, it'll do!

So far so good for the internet. We got the modem in the mail, so we're not sure how to connect again after we turn the computer off.

Geek Squad, we are not.

Hopefully we're online for good. I can't believe how unconnected and uninformed I've felt over the past few weeks. We didn't have satellite for a week either. No phone for that matter, either. It was really, really creepy.

The day Michael Jackson died, for instance. I was driving to Hobby Lobby and I heard a Jackson 5 montage. I thought it was odd and then I heard the DJ say he was dead. Jeff had no idea when I got home.

Just weird. We're not techies by any means, but we really do appreciate all our luxuries.

Promise one of these days, I'll have pictures of the kids doing something .......

I really should be banned from Blogger-dom, shouldn't I?

We STILL don't have internet, can you believe it?
I had to take Brett to a camping/canoe trip, so I'm getting my Blogger/email fix on Meemaw's computer.


The house is coming along. We painted the kitchen green. The exact green I wanted, can you beat that? Looks pretty good.
Our wood flooring is in and Jeff is itching to get it installed......I'm doing plenty of itching for him too :)


We've been running errands pretty much every single day. We were in Target and Brett asked me if I could believe we were at Target on a Sunday at 8:00pm, and that we'd be home in 3 minutes.......it's the little things, isn't it? Seriously, though, it's pretty darn cool.


And, that's about that. We've been very busy and I haven't taken a lot of pictures of my adorable children, even though they've been doing adorable things. Maybe I should be banned from Mother-dom while they're at it.


As soon as we get internet (supposedly next week) I'll update more with house pics.
If anyone even cares anymore :)

Spinning Around and Around, Chasing My Tail

Sorry it's been so long.
We moved into our house last Thursday. All went well.
We don't have internet access yet, so I'm borrowing Meemaw's computer while we're having a swimming/sunning/relaxing day. Whew.
I took some pictures of our house, but don't have the camera card with me. Not much to see anyway, just lots of boxes, stacks and STUFF all over the place.
We can't really, truly move in until Jeff lays the wood flooring, which is still back
ordered. So, we've been hunkered down in the basement, which is perfect because it's cool and that's where the TV and video games are anyway :)
It's absolutely amazing to go shopping anywhere and everywhere I want without driving more than 10-15 minutes. Lots of take-out going on too. (it's just too darn messy to cook, you know!)
The kids, cats and dog are adjusting very well. We've met most of our neighbors and they're very, very nice.
By the way, we watched "Lakeview Terrace" a couple of nights ago. Not the best movie to watch as you're moving into a new house, especially when we have 4 police officers in the neighborhood. hee hee.
OK, I'm off to the sunshine......4 months living in a basement followed by another week living in your own basement makes you a tad bit pasty.
As soon as we get internet I'll update more in depth w/ pics.
till then......

In Honor of Flag Day

One of our friends from church has a WWII tank at her house.

Her son's repairing the fuel line, so she invited us out to take a look at it.

It's a British tank, captured by the Germans, captured by the US.

Really cool.

The kids really, really enjoyed looking at it and they even got to take a ride in it.

How's that for fun on Flag Day?

Almost there......

This is more progress than we've seen in our kitchen in weeks. The microwave hood still isn't in, but it will be by the time we move in (God willing!)

We are planning on painting the kitchen a nice soft green, probably a celadon color.

We have a black table and chairs as well as some dark brown/black knobs and pulls for the cabinets. New faucet and light fixtures too.

Still have A LOT of work to do....amazing with a brand new house, but we know what we want.

The kitchen isn't really very big, but it has more than enough room and storage for us, so it'll work. (never had a pantry or garbage disposal---oooohh !)

Another angle.

Don't even look at the floor. It's the 'included' vinyl, which we are going to promptly cover with wood ASAP.

Downstairs 1/2 bath. Finally complete. (except for paint---light blue, and probably wainscotting--white)

We have a different faucet and light that I can't wait to install.

We are on schedule to close Thursday at 8:00am.

I can't wait to take a picture of the finished outside. We're STILL waiting for 4 more shutters and then they'll install the sod the day we close, weather permitting. (not too worried about that since we have to take care of it!)

So, that's that. We're going to be freaky busy over the next couple of weeks.

I'll be taking pictures and updating as much as possible.

Can't wait till Thursday :)

Updates **UPDATE ON THE UPDATE**

**I really need to coordinate my blog posts with my emails.
About 2 mins. after my Updates post I got an email from our construction guy, Brett. He said that everything's back on track and that the house will be finished on Friday and we're having our final "Homeowner Orientation" Friday at 4:00pm.
So, it looks like we'll be on track to move next Thursday.**
:)


Not a lot going on.
Not physically anyway. Mentally, that's another story.


This past weekend we went to my cousin's graduation party in Illinois. We stayed in a hotel then went to Brookfield Zoo and did some shopping on Sunday. We had a nice time, but it was freezing on Saturday. It was 59 in the afternoon and it got into the 40s that night. Nothing like a little October weather on a June weekend. sigh

The kids and I checked on our house last Friday. Jeff didn't even want to go. The kids hadn't seen it in quite awhile and they were excited to see all the "progress" (whatever)
There were a zillion people there. Guys were painting all the trim, the plumber and electrician were there.
The kids were able to go up to their rooms and look around, they went in the basement and the backyard. I was glad they got to go look and run around.
But, this was the first time I didn't really want to be there.
There was still SO MUCH that wasn't done that needs to be done by FRIDAY, like 3 days, Friday.
I'm just waiting to get a call or an email from someone telling us that they won't be done on time. But, what can you do?
Not a stinking thing.
That's what kills me.
argh.


At least we have a busy week this week. Our church has our VBS every night this week from 6:30-8:30pm. We're all involved in it and it's always a lot of fun, but exhausting.
It's hard to believe it's going to be our last VBS. If things are on schedule, this Sunday will be our last Sunday at our church.


So, that's about it.
Our house is supposed to be done this Friday and then we're supposed to close the following Thursday, which will also be the day we start moving.
9 more days (allegedly).


Stay tuned.....