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

Back porch

If it doesn't stop raining we are going to go crazy! We haven't been able to pour the driveway and sidewalks for 2 weeks now and we can't bring in appliances or get a certificate of occupancy without them. Thankfully, they started the railing and stairs from the back porch. Today they were supposed to put the last coat of stain on the hardwood floors so we can't do anything tomorrow inside the house. Wednesday should be big, though. We should get all tile, paint, and trim finished. We set the movers up for Dec. 29 and our closings are both set up for Dec. 30th. We are on a super tight timeline right now so pray for sunny, warm weather:).

12/11/09 update

Today we went to see our wood floors. Yesterday they sanded them and started the stain. Today the 2nd coat of stain went down. They also put up front stairs, columns and our house number. If it would ever stop raining we could get some concrete poured, but so far no luck. We do have air conditioners and the Rennai system installed. Hopefully tomorrow they will work on the back porch putting in the railing and stairs and then on Monday the wood floors will get their last coat. Next week the trim carpenters will come in and finish up and we'll get our appliances installed. What do we have left? Finish the paint, cabinets need to be finished, driveway, fireplace tiles, backsplash, mailbox and landscaping. Then of course the punch out and clean up. We're close, but still seems like a couple of weeks if we're lucky. Oh, the good news? We sold our house!!! Thankfully even in this economy we sold our house so we may either move into our new home or into a hotel until our new home is finished... we'll keep you posted.