Project Update: Complete!

Whew!! These last five months have been busy and crazy full of hard work on our house.  We have only updated the upper level of the house, but it is finally complete! (Well, there are a few minor things that need to be done, but not a big deal!) I am so excited to be able to enjoy the house and take a breather for a while.  So, I am going to attempt to post before and after pics of the house, but, I think it is much easier if you just come pay a visit :).
Living Room Before's:

Living Room After's:

 The living room was probably the easiest to do, the walls and carpets just needed to be cleaned, and add some new paint and you are good :)

Master Bedroom Before:

 Master Bedroom After:

This bedroom was pretty simple, it just needed a good cleaning and a new paint job too.  We received some new carpet as a gift and installed new carpet in here as well.

Second Bedroom Before's:

 Second Bedroom After's:

 This room was a bit of a challenge.  The blue wallpaper took a while to get off but turned out really nice.  We also received carpet as a gift for this room too, and we are so thankful for it cause this room needed it sooooo bad!

Now for the Kitchen Before's:

 Kitchen After's:

 The kitchen took us about 3 weeks to do.  As you can see, we had a lot of work.  One thing that I am really glad we did while updating the house, is adding a dishwasher.  It makes it soooo nice!

 For this update, we painted the cabinets, installed the dishwasher, put on new countertops, painted, and put in new flooring. 

Dining Room Before:

 Dining Room After:

This room is conjoined with the kitchen so most of what we did in the kitchen we continued into here.
Bathroom Before:

 Bathroom After:

 The bathroom was a bit tricky, the people who owned the house before us had painted the bathtub and the paint started to peel and so in the process of fixing that up, we decided to do the rest, and I am so glad!

So that's  the house and all the work that was put into it! I'm glad it's done and Logan is too! Ha ha!  I hope you enjoy the pics and when you come visit next, we would love to give you a tour :)

Busy Quarter

The past few months we have been SUPER busy!  We bought a house at the end of January and did some updating on it before moving in around the end of February.  We are still working on the house and it is slowly coming along.  There are lots of finishing work to finish and some painting to be done which I am hoping to finish this summer.

Logan has been in school this last quarter and with all the projects we have taken on with the house has been struggling with school.  We are hoping that next semester will be a bit easier where he can focus on only school and work.

With the warm weather comes yard cleanup and gardening.  Logan and I are starting our first garden and it has been going pretty well.  Logan tilled up the grass in a section of our back yard and chopped down the bushes in the area so we could get ready.  With the warm weather we went ahead and planted our garden and are hoping that the weather doesn't get too cold.  Our yard is in pretty decent shape, there are some things we need to clean up such as a bathtub that was put in the ground (not sure what it was used for) and instead of pouring a sidewalk to lead to the back yard, the previous owner just used broken up tile and stone.  Plus, there is a lot of paint and other garbage that they left that we need to get rid of.  I will be busy making some garden beds and giving the yard some more curb appeal.

With how busy we have been, I haven't really noticed how big and grown up our little Jake has gotten.  He is no longer a helpless baby, he is mobile!  He started crawling and even though he is still getting the hang of it, he wants to get into everything!  He is so much fun and I am so glad that I can quite my job this summer and be able to spend more time with him.  He is the sunshine in my day and he sure loves to be around people, he does not like to be alone very much.

Well that is a quick update about us and I will post pictures later of the before and after's of our house.