The 2 pictures I forgot...

The storm shelter. Also where the trim carpenter is storing his equipment and will have to move it out REAL SOON!

We're almost finished!

Tonight we went to see the house. Amazing how far we have come! I can't believe we're almost finished. In all honesty it's a little surreal because I was starting to think we weren't going to get there. However, we are starting to move our boxes in TOMORROW and movers come on MONDAY! Here are some pictures I took tonight so the coloring isn't that great but it will give you an idea... before we let the Mackey kids run wild in the new house and it doesn't look like this anymore:). The pictures start upstairs, main level, and basement/garage. I tried to get them in order as if you were walking around, but it didn't quite work out that way for all of the pictures.

Kaden's room. His view last night was amazing. The sun was setting and the snow clouds were thick. The little mountains we have and the yard were covered in snow. It was beautiful!
McKinley's room

View of hallway to McKinley's room and then Christian's room. If you turn to the left you would see Kaden's bed and bath. Keep turning left all the way around and that's their living room.

Christian's room. These windows face the street, she's at the front of the house.

Kaleigh's room. She also faces the front of the house.

My upstairs storage closet. Those are ADT's wires, we're still waiting to get phone installed so ADT can get set up. This is down a hallway that leads from Kaleigh's room to the upstairs living room and stairs.

Opposite of the closet is the laundry room.

Upstairs living room

Stairs going up

Master bath/shower... still waiting for shower door

View of master bath from our room

Our room

My kitchen.

The dining room is directly to your right as you enter the front door. The windows look out at the front porch.

The living room and kitchen

The study is directly to the left of the front door as you enter.

Stairs from main level down to basement and garage. These are across the hall from the powder room (I forgot to get a picture of this room) and in between the living room and our room.

Workshop area of garage

Garage

Basement

View of basement from the door to the garage. To the left are the stairs to go to the main level and on the right is the bathroom and hidden is the door to the storm shelter.

* Oops! In my attempt to organize the pictures in order I accidentally deleted the storm shelter picture.

1.5.09 update

Well, as of today we have postponed the movers 3 times now! This weather is RIDICULOUS! I mean a high of 25?! I don't have any new pictures, but we're getting very close. The painters came today after bringing in heaters to warm the house up. We FINALLY received our certificate of occupancy but won't get temporary power until Wednesday. The painters didn't want to come but I am tired of waiting around and moving our move date over and over. So, they came today for me. I'm sure my next bill will have a nice diesel charge to keep the heaters running! Oh well. The paint looked great. All we have left now is for the tile guy to come back and put grout in our backsplash and fireplace tiles. The painters need to finish, we need the closet hanging bars, toilet paper holders and things like that. And, lastly landscape and a mailbox! We need that mailbox too because I've changed some of our addresses on things. Needless to say, we're close but no home run yet. Keep us in your prayers that we keep our sanity and get moved in before my maternity leave is over!

Christmas Day

Again, these are the pictures I can find from our Christmas Day. Santa brought Rie an Easy Bake oven, Kaden got a basketball arcade hoops, Christian got a little trampoline, and McKinley got a bouncy chair.

Rie made a potholder for me at school. This is when she gave it to me.

Christmas Eve the kids were running around and Kaden bumped his head into the couch. He got a pretty yucky scratch on his left eye.

Christmas Eve

For Christmas I received an external hard drive so I can save all of my pictures in one spot. Unfortunately I was trying to be cool and saved all my Christmas pictures to it before I could put a date on them. So, I'm having a hard time locating the pictures. This is what I found so far...

rie's picture for nana. picture taken by christian

some of our stockings. kaden and rie have 2 because they made one at school and wanted to hang it up. another picture by christian.

Making Santa's cookies.

Our yummy cookies.

We have concrete!

And, we thought we would NEVER get concrete....

But, today we had the front porch rails and...

THE DRIVEWAY!! WOOHOO! Finally.

Thursday, 12/17/09

back porch and stairs

fireplace (will have brown tones once they put the glaze on)

kitchen island

ovens

stove top and cabinets

powder room

master shower