Moving Day!!

I am currently sitting at the kitchen table writing this post from our new home!!!! It was six months of an incredible amount of work, but it is all worth it to sit in our house and be home. We still have minor projects to do, but we are here to stay. As boxes get unpacked, I will post some new pictures.

Some updated pictures

The breakfast nook bench is finished. The bottom beadboard is salvaged from the original porch wall to keep some of the original house history intact. The washer and dryer are in and working in the laundry room. And our first snow fall was on Saturday.

On the top of Andy's Christmas wish list

I caught a glimpse of this a while back at Barnes & Noble. Anyone who knows Andy knows how highly he thinks of Chuck Norris; and in light of the recent poll that came out ranking television's most "manly men" and Chuck Norris' absence from that list I feel that it is only right to remind all of you how great Chuck Norris is. Walk on Walker, Texas Ranger, walk on.

What we do in our spare time

I know that every post has been about the house and some of you may be thinking, "Do Andy and Kori ever get to do anything else?"
Allow me to introduce SAM (Smoking Anatomy Model). To go along with my tobacco unit at school Andy was kind enough to help me make SAM smoke some cigarettes last night. What a gross, smelly habit!
So yes, our lives have been reduced to work on the house, work in the orchard, and work for school.
Some day Andy and I will sit on our porch and enjoy the evening...someday.

My lovely cabinets

Is it wrong to be in love with cabinetry? I absolutely love my kitchen cabinets! We managed to squeeze every useable inch of storage space out of our tiny kitchen. If anyone living in the Nampa area ever is in need of amazing custom kitchen cabinets that are actually cheaper than boxed cabinets from Lowe's go to Kinsmen Cabinetry! They may not be the fastest, but their craftsmanship and quality is outstanding. Each slide on either side of every drawer can hold 100 pounds, that's some major silverware storage!

We took the picture at 9 o'clock at night after the 4 of us had just finished staining the hardwood floors (thus the mighty mess on Andy's shirt).

Floor Facts

We have stained the floor and the finishers came today to put the first coats of finish on. Crawling on hands and knees until 9 o'clock at night isn't the most fun job we have done, but the floor looks great. Toby and Noah were great help staining the floor. (Can you tell that our poor camera has been in a construction zone by all the sawdust stuck to the lens?) A look at the floor before we stained.

Home Sweet Home

We are getting closer to our move-in date! Flooring is next on the list. We have started to hang the doors, tiling in the bathroom is done I just need to grout the walls in the master bathroom shower. Here is the picture from the real estate flyer. As you can see, the yard is looking much healthier and the house is in much better condition, as for the deck...it will have to wait until next summer.