Work Days

Through out the month of March we were still living with my parents, but had a contract on our house. We had a bunch of legal issues that came up last minute with the house so closing kept getting delayed (not problems with us, but with the owner of the house). Luckily our real estate agent is closely linked with the top real estate attorney in Springfield. So we had our issues taken care of with absolutely no stress or work between Brandon and I. It was great. So as the financial side pressed on, we were able to take early possession of the house and start the changes that we had planned on.

(Here's a shot of the kitchen before. It looks like the floors and cabinets match- but they didn't!)

The kitchen and dining room originally had dark cabinets with super light cheap laminate flooring. In the living room, upstairs bedrooms and hallway was UGLY burbur carpet. So we had it all ripped up and replaced with top of the line laminate flooring in the kitchen, dining room, living room, hallway and new carpet in the three upstairs bedrooms. To save on the labor costs, and because I have the best daddy in the whole world, we spent a couple of evenings as a family ripping up flooring, staples and carpet padding. The boys even got in on the action with plyers and ripping up staples.

After a couple of days of hard work, we were finally done! Brandon and I LOVE LOVE LOVE our new flooring. We were just looking forward to the day when we could official move into our long awaited new home!

Later in the week we were able to put the twins new bunkbeds in their room and our new couch for our upstairs bedroom. Slowly but surely we were getting closer to the official move in day!