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I know I know, I haven't posted anything in a long time. But I swear I have had no time to sit down and type something up, let alone upload pictures! But after reading other mom's blogs, I feel a little guilty!

Most of you know everything anyways, cuz I am sure you are keeping up with our life through my mom's blog. But since that is still not enough for some of you pushy blog readers, I will attempt to do an update.

Justin, Annie and I bought a new house and were finally given the keys about 3 weeks ago. We moved out of our rental home on July 1st and have been living with our parents ever since....yikes! Just kidding mom! We are very thankful to have a place to stay with yummy dinners and full time babysitters!

Our house needed a few renovations, and since Justin and I are both picky, we decided to do a little more work on the house than what really was necessary to move in. But we wanted our home to be almost perfect before we started living there.

So three weeks have gone bye, and we have: scraped, sanded, painted, torn down, built up, removed, given away, thrown out and redone almost everything in the house! Yet there are still MANY things we still want to do to it. But it is a work in progress. We should finally be able to live there in a few days! Woohoo!

From the beginning......

Got the keys!

Our first guest

Lots of helpers

Even Annie wanted to help

Justin will be making our old cabinets look like these! He did them for a beach house recently!

Tyler came over and had some friends take up our fruit trees and replant them at The Nichols' house

We picked out new appliances!

Annie wanted a green room!

Before

After

Before

My after picture got lost.. all of our plants and bushes were dug up and the tree was trimmed!

I put a hole in a wall!

And Justin framed it out and fixed it!

I took this railing out

And replaced it with this Pier 1 hutch, thanks Mom!

Before

After, with primer

Before

After, again with primer only....our wall color is French Vanilla, but that isn't shown here

New tile floor, wrong grout color.....

New couches

Blinds, paint, and a new fan

My window I made!

Break time at Akiras!

Our blue room, very peaceful

Before

After

Our new table

Tyler and Katy come to help move us in

Annie sneaking doughnuts.......naughty girl

Kurston and Kevin help build furniture for Annies room. And Auntie La La helped A LOT allllllll day long! Thanks guys! ( Laura, I had a picture of you in here.. and I have no idea where it went! And if I upload it again, my pictures will be all spaced wrong and I will have to spend another hour spacing them! But just know you were apprecitated!)

Our bedroom furniture carefully goes up the stairs....

Woohoo! We got it up there without any problems!

So thats it so far. We have all of our stuff in the house, we are just waiting on a new cieling fan to be installed in our bedroom. And then it is move in time! Stay tuned!