I'm back..?

Hi friends!  Are you still there?  Maybe not...I guess not posting for 3 months would kind of make you think I'd stopped but I've missed you.  Plus I still haven't posted house pictures.  Our July was the most insane month of our lives.  Work...come home...change into work clothes...drop Luke off at mom/sister's house...eat dinner on our way to the new house...become construction workers...clean up around 9:30pm...go pick up Luke...take a shower....watch YouTube videos in bed to figure out how to do the next project...wake up...go to work...change into work clothes...everyday.  Then we moved into the house at the beginning of August and continued but this time we didn't have to go anywhere, and we waited until Luke was sleeping, and THEN we became construction workers.  It's still not all done, but nothing we can't live with until we feel like picking up a tool again.

Here are some pictures...which don't really explain how weird the floor plan was and how much better it is now, but you still get an idea of how much was done in 6 weeks.

First though, a quick shout out to my dad/general contractor/architect/developer/negotiator/babysitter/cheerleader.  He made it happen and was working 12 hours at the house when we were working our day jobs.  He also somehow envisioned all we did in about 5 minutes when we first saw the house!!  Here he is in work mode:

The whole thing seriously could not have been done without very generous friends who helped us on their own weekends...but I can't let you think we did all this work without the the Gordons.  I think they might have earned some equity.  Or our second born child.  Michelle primed practically the whole house (and provided moral support when I thought we'd lost our minds) and Jeremy sanded entire rooms with a hand sander.  He probably could sue us for workmans comp for back problems for the rest of his life.  AND they would bring us beer regularly.  The Gordons everyone:

Okay so here are some pics!

The Living Room before:

The Living/Dining Room after:

Entrance to middle bedroom before (directly off living room):

Now the entrance to a new hallway that leads to the other 2 bedrooms, and we sacrificed that bedroom and made a laundry room and bathroom (are you confused yet?...it is even in person!):

Here is the old kitchen (yes that's carpet)...

that Adam then demolished with some friends.  It looked like this in July (from the other direction):

Now it's the hallway and looks like this.  Hoping to put in hall cabinets in the near future on the right...if only they were free!

The Dining Room before:

Is the Kitchen now:

The Family Room before:

The Family Room after: 

*It looks shorter because it is...there's a bar between the kitchen and family room now...which might be my favorite part of the house!  

Luke's room is done but he's sleeping and there's no way I'm going in there to take a picture.  Our room isn't done...but Adam has plans for it this weekend, while I'm gone.

I'm going to Germany tomorrow to celebrate the life of my sweet, precious Oma who passed away on Friday.  She was sick but it was still a shock.  Even though she lived in Germany, she spent lots of time with us growing up and stayed with my parents for months at a time.  I hope to be half the mother and Oma she was.  

Oma with her grandchildren and great grandchildren in May (the ones in the U.S. at least):

XOXO