HOME...

Home.

I am learning now more than ever what it means to truly be home.

For the past year and a half it has been pure chaos.  I haven't felt settled.  I haven't felt content.  I haven't slept well at all. 

Now...everything is different.

I can relax.  I can sleep.  I am not on edge all of the time.

I am happy.

All of this didn't come because we have a shiny new home. 

(Although I do love the shiny new part.)

It comes from knowing that this is where we are meant to be and that this is where we plan on staying for the rest of our lives.

We are settled...

And it is WONDERFUL! 

The move went well thanks to Jacob's friend Brent and his father in law.  We closed on Friday and we had all of the major stuff moved in by Saturday night. 

The bad part was being without phone and Internet for a month and a half.

There is still a lot of work to be done on the house.  That will all come in time.  The yard needs a lot of work.  We need to get our rocking chairs and porch swings put together and hung up.  I still don't have a dining room table or bar stools.  (They have been ordered but aren't here yet.)  I also need to hang a lot of pictures up but I am just going to live in the space for awhile before I make any decisions. 

So here are the pictures of the house finished up as much as it is going to be for awhile. 

 

 

 

This is my favorite room...the Laundry room.  It is so functional.  I love it!

Master bedroom.

Master Bath 

 

Jackson's room...He has a hunting themed room. 

Boys bath. 

Tyler's John Deere room. 

He is so happy to have his own space. 

Jaci's pink big girl room.  She is so thrilled to be out of the baby crib!

(We are so happy to have her out of our room!) 

I still need to refinish her bed and dressers.  They were mine as a child and are pretty beat up.  I am going to paint the dresser white to match everything else. 

She even has her pink ceiling fan. 

Jaci's bathroom.  It is also pink. 

I am happy with how it all turned out! 

And now just for old time sake here are pictures of the kids sleeping in their new rooms for the first time.

Obviously the move and lack of Internet has thrown off my plans to repeat my 365 project but at least I kept it going through out the building process.  I will figure out some type of a posting schedule because believe it or not I have actually missed my nightly posting and picture taking. 

(I think my kids and camera have enjoyed the break though.) 

I'll get back on track with something sooner rather than later. 

Thanks for following this journey from the first day of January 2010 when Jacob was leaving us to take his new job up until now when we are finally settled in our new home.

It has been quite the journey.

72/365

Today I got up early and headed out to the house again.  Tiffany and Felipe came over around noon so that Felipe could hang the shower door and shower curtain rods in the kids rooms.  It made the day much more enjoyable to have someone to visit with and Tiffany helped me out with my appliances and floors.

Speaking of the floors...they were a nightmare to clean!  I was literally on my hands and knees scrubbing them.  There was so much dirt in every little crack of the floors.  It was not fun but they look so much better now.

Jacob and the kids got home around 7:30 last night.  He went to work cleaning out the garage and the kids enjoyed spending some time playing with Rhett.

Here is the house last night after I got it all cleaned up.  They still have to paint the backsplash, but most of the other major stuff is done.

I hesitated on staining the patio doors thinking that it might be too dark but I think they turned out nice.

View from dining room into living room.

The shower finally all finished up!  It looks so nice!

71/365

This is what happens when you spend all of your time working out at the new house.

Needless to say our laundry (which I am usually really good at staying on top of it) got out of control.

I cleaned out at the house all day long (around 10 hours total) and came home and folded laundry.

My life is so exciting right now.

70/365

It is officially Spring Break!

The kids and Jacob headed to Henderson for a wedding, while I am left behind to do the big move in clean out at the house.  It is going to be a huge task this weekend and I am not looking forward to doing it alone.

We are exactly one week away from moving in!

I can't wait!

(If I survive the weekend...and next week!)

69/365

Ahhhh...CARPET!

I can't even begin to tell you how excited my kids were to be able to roll around on the new carpet this evening!

I am excited to have it as well.  I actually don't mind having carpet.  I like sitting on the floor playing with the kids and carpet just makes that so much more enjoyable.

I am happy we have the floors we have in the main living areas (if I can ever get them clean) but I like carpet in the bedrooms and basement.  I just feels more cozy.

In addition to finishing off the lighting and putting in the appliances, they also stained the doors and put on the door hardware today.

I am so happy with how they turned out!

We are just down to the little details now.

Yay!

68/365

Lately we have been working at the new house every evening until around 8:30.

This means we get home, scramble to get baths and feed the kids.

I feel like I am barely keeping my head above water, but the end is near!

Until then things will just be crazy and unorganized.

67/365

Today I was happy to finally get caught up on my blog!  I always feel better when I sit down and write about what is going on, even if it isn't about anything special.

It certainly feels like Spring is here in West Texas.  The wind has just been crazy and the sky is brown.

The trees are starting to bloom out and I am so excited that we will have a house to start working in the yard.  I missed having my plants last year.

Today they started putting in the septic system.

It took up a lot more space than we had thought it would.

The worst part is that we lost about 4 trees because of it.  One of them was a big beautiful mesquite tree right off the back porch.  It made us both sick.

Here is the tree carnage.  So sad.  :(