No promises

I am going to try to catch up and be better at blogging, but after the amount of time it took me to do this last post I am making no promises. It may easily be a year again before you get another post so I hope that you enjoy this one!

Our New House

We moved into my parents house 2 years ago. We had our property and plans to build our house. The property needed to be leveled and developed. Between Pat's new business, scouts, remodelling the Joe's Valley cabin, and everything else in life, it did not happen as quickly as we hoped. I told Pat that if it wasn't started by the summer, I was looking for a house to buy. Summer came and nothing happened so I began my search. We wanted a house that was inexpensive and needed work so that we could fix it up and make some money in 3-5 years. (That is the new deadline for building) After looking at many, many, many houses that didn't quite work I found this one. I made Pat come and see it and even he liked it. It didn't look like much from the outside, but after going through it and seeing the potential, we decided it was the one we wanted. We put in an offer, and it was accepted.

Here is our new house!

We had to reshingle it replace the window in Landen's room, and fix a few other things before we could get the loan. It was kind of bad timing since it all had to be done while Pat's mom was in town from Illinois. But thanks to Gary, Jim, Brock, and Sue, we got everything done in a few days.

We officially owned the home in September and moved in the first part of November.

Everything needs to be redone, but the kids' rooms and the downstairs bathroom were in the worst shape. We did those first then we will do the kitchen, family room and laundry room. The master bedroom is not so bad, but the bathroom needs to be remodeled. It will be the last thing we do.

We used the recess in the wall to build a desk and book shelves for all of Alyssa's books and other knick knacks.

We took off the closet doors and put up curtains. Much easier the access the closet.

The old renters left behind a lot of crap. We cleaned out tons of stuff.

At first we were really nervous about how bright the pink was, but it turned out amazing.

I love the big window in Alyssa's room. She loves having a space that is all her own.

Landen's room is a little smaller, but it is perfect for him.

Landen wanted all of the superheroes in his room.

Landen loves his new room. He loved it even before it was redone. He was just so excited to have a space of his own.

This great cowboy wallpaper was underneath the amazing paneling! Lots of surprises when you rip stuff apart.

I love how Landen's room turned out!

We completely gutted the bathroom.

As much as I loved the glass blocks around the window, we decided to replace them with a new, slightly smaller window.

We knocked out the wall around the tub and moved it to put in a bigger one.

I love our house! We still have a lot of work to do, but it has been great to have our own place. As soon as we finish the remodel I will post more before and afters.