What a storm!!

We had a crazy storm last night! Not only was there copious amounts of rain, but hail too. I have never seen so much hail. The wind was blowing really, really hard, and the wind was so loud against the house. There were tornado warnings in the area, so that's pretty scary. I'm really glad Becca was here with me and Emma, because it was pretty intense!

We watched our table and chairs get blown by the wind. In fact, one of our chairs ended up 3 yards over from our house! For a minute there we thought the table was going to go through the sliding door.

This much hail collected in one of the pots outside:


Our neighbors the Johnston's tree blew over completely:

Out front you can see how hard the wind was blowing:

And all the hail covering the ground:

And saddest of all:

My tomato plants that had just begun to flower:

Painting day

I'm finally getting the pictures from the day we painted the house posted. We settled on the house on a Thursday, and all day Friday we painted to be done before the big move-in on Saturday. Literally for a total of about 12 hours. We never would have been able to do it without help, especially because Martin had to be at work and I am pregnant. Our parents helped out so much!

Mom D. putting on some of our blue/grey primer:

Mom H. working on some primer too:

Dad and I worked in the baby's room:

bit of an action shot (I think I said, hey Dad!):

I'm painting behind the fridge:


Dad working in the kitchen:

I'm doing the first coat of red...which looked like strawberry jelly at first:

but turned out looking very nice:

Dad rolled the whole downstairs in a second coat of tan:

Mom finishing up the red:

I will have a complete "after" picture up sometime soon. Right now the couch is way comfier than getting up and taking one :-)

Settlement on the house

Over the weekend we received our settlement date: November 20th! This is two days before the Saturday we were hoping to move in. We are so thankful that everything has worked out so well in terms of timing. This is just another way that God is showing us that He has everything under control even when we can't see it that way. I dont even feel stressed about packing because we've been working on it a little at a time so far (we'll see if the stress levels start to rise as we get closer to the move-in date!)

We saw the house Saturday and the kitchen is in, cabinets and countertops. Its starting to really feel like a house now! All of the cabinets are in the bathrooms as well, and the light fixtures are throughout the house. There are really only a few things left to be done, so that is great.

we have drywall!

Here are some pictures from our newly drywalled house! We are very excited to see how things are progressing. Now it is actually starting to look like a house! Hopefully these pictures will make the layout of things a little more clear to those of you who have not gotten the chance to see things in person yet!

this is up in the loft:

from the kitchen looking into the living room:

from the living room looking at the kitchen and front door:

House update

They are moving right along on our house. Here are some pictures from the past few weeks. This week they are putting the stucco on the outside of the house and working to get the inside insulated and ready for drywall! We are probably only a month away from move in!

House progress

Our house is well on its way! Here are some pictures that we've taken over then last few weeks of the ongoing construction:


They did that much the first day...very nice start!

From the front...we are lot #184

This is going to be our powder room!

The second floor is looking good and the A-frames for the roof are going up.

From the front again...we are the third house from the right, this side of where the blue juts out.

Our loft window stands out, the only loft in our building.

More to come!