Hey - remember that time when we moved the week before Christmas?! The past few months and weeks have been chaos (but a good kind of chaos - minus the illnesses and pneumonia of course, but good overall), but we are finally in our beautiful new house! A huge, massive, eternally grateful thank you to our families for helping us paint the ENTIRE interior of our house (minus one small bedroom and a bathroom), but everything else got painted!!! It was an all hands on deck painting/cleaning/moving party for about 5 days and PHEW are we glad that's over with! Some couples loooove doing house stuff - like redecorating and painting and renovating - but let me tell you that Steve and I are NOT those people! We are happy to be freshly painted and be DONE. Phew! Here are a few thousand pictures in no particular order. Again seriously - THANK YOU to our families and friends and all those that helped us move (on both ends of the move!!!). Your babysitting, painting, cleaning, constructing, and moral support are just unbelievable - thank you thank you, THANK YOU!
Jumping for Joy to be together again FINALLY!!!
Dad painted Jillian's room a beautiful pink!
These two....the dream team!! They practically slept on the scaffolding because painting the foyer took for.ev.er....
Mom painting the bathroom
Auntie Theresa was a cleaning machine!!!!!
Jen was a painting task master!! I swear she painted every room in the house....I'm not kidding....
This two tone paint required a LOT of paint.....I swear it just sucked it right up
Our house looked like a construction zone
No one got electrocuted while hanging this massive chandelier! PHEW!
Addie even came to help and painted some closets!!!
Uncle Paul painted the office - Bermuda Bay, my fav color!
Jerry was the construction/maintenance guy
Our friend Mike came to paint too - seriously we called in a lot of favors....SO MUCH WORK!
Jen painting the kitchen (conveniently close to the Christmas Ale I see....!!)
Union break! Hey everyone's entitled to one!
Gosh those stairs looked awful to paint....
Dad built us a whole other shelf in the pantry!! Woop!
Dave came to help too! Painting the master.
Pizza and beer flowed like water
The sunroom finished!
The office finished!
Painting the Master
Kitchen/Sunroom finished
Dining room and front room done
Half bath done
Signing our lives away! Don't worry - our mortgage will be finished in 2046....(cue the heart attack)
Jillian scoping out her new house the night we got the keys
The sunroom before we painted
Welcome hoooome!
We replaced this yellow/tan-ish color with "planetary silver"
Dining room/front room before - kind of a dark brown color I guess?
Our basement! (and a huge factor in us picking this house - how awesome is this?!)j
Family selfie in our new house!
We took this project SERIOUSLY! Check out these project boards Steve and I made. Steve brought his work skillz home and hooked us up with this.....great job Steve!
Mom removing this awful border that was in the office!
Linn cleaning every surface! She was also babysitter extraordinaire all weekend!
Our little friends came to inspect the new house - they approve!
Don't worry - we gave everyone lessons on the project board.
I mean seriously - Aunt Theresa barely sat down for days and days! She is my hero!
Mike even burned a vacation day to help paint! AMAZING!!!
They were nonstop cleaning machines!
Dads on construction and maintenance - thanks Dads!
Painting the mudroom
Steve kicked off the painting with a little Bayberry Frost in the front room
Family pic at the final walk through - just a few days before we closed and got the keys!
Wow! I got tired just looking at all that work! It looks awesome though! Congrats and best wishes getting settled.
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