A Long Three Weeks

We have been in house exactly three weeks and I REALLY wish I could tell you it has been a fairytale but as the wise Harry Potter says, "I must not tell lies." Actually I feel more like Cinderella before the whole glass slipper, fairy godmother thing. I really could use a fairy godmother right about now. Someone who could come along to wave her wand and hang all the pictures and unpack all the boxes. If anyone has a number for someone like that, HOOK A GIRL UP!

It's probably unfair that I am painting a totally unhappy picture that life is not good right now because it feels amazing to be in our home and I can feel us start to roll downhill. The stress level has decreased from about 500 to about 75 over the last couple of weeks. Let me get the not fun stuff out of the way and I will show you what the house looks like currently.

Not fun stuff:

1. We had a leak in our brand new bathroom sink.

2. Our brand new dryer would not work.

3. Our master bath toilet would not flush. See #5

4. I can't really remember all of the problems. There are too many so I am going to stop right here.


5.

Surprise! We got new sewer lines. The problems in number 3 were caused by old sewer lines and the fact this house was vacant for about 7 years. It is not all bad. Jon was almost giddy this day because he has been dying to start sowing grass seed and planting new landscape. Right now we have a dirt front yard. Seriously. I give directions to anyone who comes to our house like this, "it's a green painted brick house with a dirt front yard." They get there every single time. I can't wait to show you what the exterior of house looks like in a couple of months. 

Time to end the suspense….prepare yourself. Ain't nothing clean and put together.  Those pictures will come in a few weeks or months if I'm honest. 

I adore the kitchen. It's probably my favorite room in the whole house. We have to put up the back splash and do a little trim work and it's done. Done.

The bedrooms are done except for unpacking and hanging pictures, pictures, pictures. Thankfully we figured out a nifty little way of hanging pictures without losing our minds. For the right price I may just share my secret. 

Well these are the bathrooms. I don't have a lot to say about them but they sure are pretty. 

This room has come a long way in a short period of time. Need me to remind you…

See I told ya.

This room is giving the kitchen a run for its money. It's kind of amazing. I am loving watching all of those Tennessee wins in this room. It's like a dream come true. 

I am going to leave you with this beautiful pictures. I sure do love those kids even though I'm pretty sure my hair is going gray. 

House Update: Week 10.5

I really hope you guys weren't taking me serious when I said that I would post a mid-week update last week because I meant this week. I'm such a jokester. I've gotten lazy over here. Joking again. Things are just a tiny bit nutso and by tiny I mean complete mayhem. Okay, now I'm exaggerating. But just a little. We moved our first boxes today. I am beyond ready to be in this house. So ready that I will probably spend tomorrow cleaning ALL DAY LONG. We are getting desperate people.  Let me get to the good stuff.

Master Bed and Bath

This room is pretty much done. It needs a good scrub and some pretty pictures on the wall but it is fully functioning. Thank heavens! 

Apparently I took zero before pictures of the master bedroom. I promise it looks a little better than the pictures. Okay. Now I'm lying. It is still a big, hot mess. I'm going to walk away from this room for a little bit and maybe when I come back it will be done. Maybe.

I can't decide which room to show you next because both of them make me so durn happy. I would do a little dance but I'm church of christ. Just kidding but not really. 

Family Room

I'm still trying to compose myself. This room give me all the feels. The can lights above the fireplace. The white brick. The built ins. The color. It's all so overwhelming wonderful. This maybe my favorite room ever. 

Kitchen

Let's all just take a minute and breathe in the beauty of this room. Look past those minor details (unpainted doors) and envision the finished product. It is going to be amazing. I'm practically salivating.

Even though we are "almost" finished we still have so much to do. I will probably wait until we are completely finished and moved in before I post another TOTAL house update. I will post updates on random rooms but we are at the end and I'm pooped. I hope to take a good long nap when all of this is finished.