Updates on the House!

I just wanted to put these on here for me, life is going by so fast these days, and I know that when we have moved on from this house I will enjoy looking back on these pictures! :) 

Plus it's always fun to look at pictures of hard work and home improvements! 

Here is our Yard Work! Matt and I (mostly Matt) mulched and pulled weeds, and Matt pulled all of the overgrown and half dead shrubs, and massive amounts of ivy in the backyard! 

Remember our nightmare of a kitchen flood? Well after about a month of ripped up floors, LOUD industrial fans, and one heck of a mess...it's finally finished and looks beautiful!

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I had to share my unbelievable deal at a yard sale! Case and I ventured out on Saturday morning, and I saw this gorgeous rug rolled up, hesitantly I asked the owner how much she wanted for it...and she replied "Ohh, I don't know five bucks" 

"This rug?!?" (I know it was the worst thing a "bargainer" could do, I just couldn't hide my shock! I was fully prepared to spend my $50 in cash I had brought to buy this gorgeous thing!

So, I quickly said "Okay I'll take it!" and with a little carpet deodorizer, a few good vacuums, this rug was as good as new! I think it fits in perfectly with our living room, and I still can't believe I paid a measly $5 for such a beauty!

A Little Brighter

Things are looking a little bit brighter! 

The EIGHT industrial fans were finnaaallly hauled out of here yesterday, it was so unbelievably QUIET without all that white noise we were used to for waaay too long! 

I finally feel better, I think I still have a little bit of allergies but I can finally breathe again!

Gunner is sleeping through the night! This is the third night in a row...yaaaay! 

Now the next steps to finishing the floor and the plumbing might not be so fun, but at least we are on our way to getting it over with!

Oh My!

A lot has been going on in the Williams' Household! 

1.  I'm still in the first trimester which means I'm EXHAUSTED. Case is such a sweet boy, and so good but it's still very difficult sometimes to keep up with him, and play with him as much as I'd like to. 
2.  Matt woke up one evening panicked about something, I asked him what was going on and he informed me that we had a fair amount of WATER underneath our kitchen and hallway flooring. (OH JOY!) We talked to our Insurance Agent, and things are starting to come together. It's going to be a long process though! The Servpro guys came in and ripped up the rest of the kitchen floor (Matt started it that evening) they put in EIGHT Industrial Fans that are L-O-U-D and quite annoying! They told us it may take a week or so to dry everything out. I'll just be glad when everything is back to normal and we have FLOORS again! I feel like our kitchen is just a wreck, and I have to enter a wind tunnel to fix all of our meals throughout the day, not fun!
3. It had been a solid 80+ degrees for about a week, and of course our AC went out. I was absolutely miserable on Friday. I was so hot and overwhelmed with the fans and the allergies that attacked me since the windows had been open for the last few days. It just seemed like one more thing!
4. We have a Puppy. Need I say more? :) He's actually a very good puppy, he has his moments of nipping and running around like a crazy thing but he's so patient and had been so great with Case, the only thing that's hard is that he doesn't sleep through the night yet! 

I was joking with Matt that at least we were getting all of the hard stuff over with at one time! Shew!