Our new home!!!

 

 

 

 

Casey and I are not ones for change.

We drive our vehicles until we absolutely have to get a different one.

We don't venture off our list of 5 restaurants for date night.

We had been living in our barely 1400 sq ft home for 8.5 years when we felt like

it was time for a change. We honestly were kind of dreading having to move.

We LOVED our sweet home that had been so good to us.

 It was the house we brought all of our babies home from the hospital to. 

We LOVED our neighbors.

We LOVED the quiet gated community we were tucked back off of Greenfield road.

I LOVED my morning routine of loading Lindi in the stroller and jogging to the park with

Rusty peddling in front of me on his bike.

Most importantly we LOVED our ward.

We knew the time was drawing near but always felt like our next home would fall into our laps.

We found a realtor and starting looking on MLS for almost a year.

Nothing seemed right for us.

Almost to the point of discouragement.

It wasn't until January when I got a text from a friend saying that the home

2 doors down from her was going up for sale by owner.

Interest did spark but we didn't really act on it.

Good news was that it was still in our same ward and the beloved street

that all of our kids friends live on!

About a week after the text we got a phone call from a man in our ward telling us

about the same house going up for sale.

We decided to meet with the owners and long story short, we bought it!!

Every thing about seemed right to us.

It was going to need lots of TLC but I love a good project:)

 

Here she is in all her glory!

Keep in mind that these are the before pics.

We pretty much gutted every. single. thing. inside that house!

The outside will get landscaped and painted in the near future.

 

The kids had a blast taking sledge hammers to the walls and floors.

We had lots of help with the demo from papa and grammy.

 Our neighbor Russ Carol helped tear out part of the kitchen.

 

Jefferson took over the bathrooms

 

We did push back the kitchen wall to allow more space.

That little table nook and all the ugly arches went bye, bye!

SO, that exposed wall stayed like that for probably 3 weeks:/
Our first night sleeping in the house we couldn't believe how LOUD
the crickets were. We thought it was just our new surroundings.
NOPE, they had made a new home in our ac vents!!! Goo.

Remodeling this house has sure taught me patients!!

 That white door leads into the master. We took it out and is now part of

my kitchen cabinets.

In the middle of it all I had a garage sell!

Marcie and my mom threw some of their stuff in and was a HUGE hit!

We were there from 6am-1pm. People kept coming!

 

We took out some steps that led from the entry to the living room and dining room.

That was probably one of my favorite things and made the biggest difference.

This called for some concrete!
Luckily a knew a guy who was pretty cheap;)

 

We also needed to fill in some floor they had to jack hammer out for plumbing

and electrical work.

You can see the new wall!

 

We took out the mammoth bush that hadn't been cut back in years!

I had to decide on paint and oh boy, that was TOUGH!!

 

I bought about 15 different samples and Bethany, my friend, let me borrow a bucket of hers because

they had just painted their house.

I ended up using Autumn Haze with 25% of the formula.

I LOVE IT!

It is the perfect creamy, off white color to go against my bright white trim.

I did use an awesome gray called Balboa Mist, its from Benjamin Moore.

That is in the kids bathroom and bedrooms.

 

We started the remodel in March.

Our renters were coming at the beginning of June.

I was getting really nervous that we would be camping in our backyard because everything

was still a mess! Here is what our kitchen looked like 3 days before move in day!!

The workers were on crunch time.

There was a group of them there every time I drove by the house.

There is the plumber, electrician and painter standing in the street.

GET BACK TO WORK, haha!

 

The carpenters head quarters.

 

I am SO SAD I don't have any pictures of moving day:(
It was just crazy and I didn't think about it.

My mom has plenty of video footage tho:)

 Lots of family and friends there to help us.

I am humbled by the generosity.

I was talking to Stephanie on the phone the day before the move and she said Travis

wanted to come help move. I told her we would be totally fine ( seeing how they live in Gallup).

She kept insisting and I kept declining.

Well come to find out he was in Mesa, haha.

I think she got offended I didn't want him there to help us:)

My mom and Marcie watched our kids all day which was a huge help.

Here is the one picture I do have.

It was after everything had been moved over.

I thought I would be a hot mess, ya know.... because change is hard for me.

I didn't cry once, I think my mind was on over load to get all sentimental.

Plus we still own it so it wasn't a forever walk away from it kind of deal.

 

We however did need to stay at my parents house for a week until we had at least one toilet, one sink and one shower head installed. Minor details:) Makes you appreciate everything you have!! And my parents are rock stars for letting us crash with them!

 

 

FINALLY after 3 months we got to sleep at our house!

I am in love with it.

Even though we still don't have countertops, tile in kids bathroom, faucets

and such. But we DID just get door knobs, woo woo woo.

I will post pictures of the whole house once its mostly completed.

 

For now we eat on the floor and pee in one bathroom and wash our hands clear on the other side of the house in the other bathroom. All of it is just adding to our fun memories of our NEW HOME!!