Official

Oh man! SO so much has happened and I haven't had enough time to stay up to date so I will probably forget parts :( but anyways... So as December and 2011 said goodbye so did our lease at our apartment... We had originally planned on moving in to Rusty Christmas Eve, Keith even thought we would move in earlier. With all the chaos that is life with a fixer such as our beloved Rusty home that didn't quiet happen... We had our first night here Friday December 29th! very crazy. But lets back up a few days...

Rewinding......

Rain was constantly threatening to start and yet still have not come. Our roof is still far from being done. The week before Christmas we were lucky enough to have Keith's brother Spencer dominate our roof. He showed up before Keith got off work and roofed half a side and completely stripped, pulled out nails, and swept the whole other half of the roof and still with some day light, we were floored. He is the man! Saturday, Christmas Eve, one of our contractors guys came out and helped Keith lay down the tar (?) or tarp (?) paper that goes under the shingles on the rest of the house. Not too much got done the rest of the weekend, a little moving a little cleaning just little stuff. Monday and Tuesday came and went with not a lot of progress either as Keith can not roof by himself and people had holiday family plans and were busy, which is completely understandable, this time of year does make things tricky. I believe it was Wednesday night when it hit both Keith and myself that Saturday was pretty much here and we had barely moved and so so much still needed to be done. Keith called everyone in his phone and people either didn't answer or couldn't help then. Panic was starting to creep around. However between people seeing Keith's calls, my plea on Facebook and us keeping an understanding mind we were blessed and got people. Calvin, the same who had helped us earlier, replied to my plea. While it will be sad to see him follow his family out to Utah it did mean that he needed to quit his job and his last day just so happen to be that evening and he was down to help as much as we needed him. Between his eagerness and love, the stress that was there and the relief that followed and just the loveliness of being a female at times I found myself tearing up, yes embarrassing to put down but really he has made a lot possible and has helped keep the stress and bickering that comes from stress down. And on top of it he is a funny guy. He came that night and helped scrap and bleach our nasty up stairs. The floors up there look AMAZING while you can still see the stain marks in the wood from everything that went down in this house all the orange and black mold was cleaned. It may sound silly but it was nearly breath taking haha. The next day he came back while Keith was at work and cleaned our back yard and stacked wood and filled dumpsters. Another breath taking sight. That afternoon I came over to see all these things and also to see Sam and Spencer on our roof. Happy, happy day. So exciting.

The next morning, Friday, I found myself back at Rusty and watching the last little bit of our new gutters going on!!!! Our gutter guy is awesome, David Groth, and our gutters look great! We chose a white gutter with our black roof and at the moment we think we will, in the end, paint the house a dark stone gray blue color with a white trim. That evening started the big move. Calvin and Keith moved 40-50% of our stuff that night and we spent the night for the first time. Luckily my curtains had come that day and I went over to Mead Clark and bought 1 5/16 " round wooden rods? poles? I don't know what you would call them. Anyways got those to make our own curtain rods. This idea came when trying to find simple matching rods for the whole house. Well our front window is 10 feet wide. The rods I was finding that would fit that were expensive and not us so were going to make ours! (taking a page out of "the handmade home") I still need to find something to hold the rods up but for now to blacken out our family room, which is where we sleep, we just put some screws in the wall and set the pole on it. Later I also plan to paint them the same white we have for the rest of our trim around the house, Kelley Moor's Swiss Coffee.

Then Saturday, DUN, dun dun! So much to move and clean and yes still pack. Calvin came far too early in the morning and stayed in to the new year. Our friend Rachael also came and entertained Naomi and helped us move from the afternoon in to the new year. To say it was intense and gross and tiring and hilarious is an understatement. We still barely were able to clean and I still need to drop our keys off, I hope there is no issue with the fact we are dropping them off a day or 2 late. I don't think that I should even get in to all that happened in that very long day but Keith and Calvin worked so hard and got so much done that its stupid. I can not express enough how awesome those guys are! Everyone finally left at 2 am and we are officially out of Agnew (the apartment) and completely in Rusty from now on! Also during the day my dad had come over and laid down half of our stick on wanna be tiles in our kitchen. It looks great! I cant wait to see it when its all done. We did not do real tile as we are planning to remodel the kitchen in the next couple of years and these till be easier to remove.

It's hard to believe all that we have gotten done and we haven't even had the house for 3 weeks yet! This place is still a complete disaster but really not for long... This next week to week and a half is really going to pull everything together. I believe Spencer is going to some back and dominate our roof and should just about get it done. I feel with out jinxing it, it could be safe to say our roof will be done by the end of this week. The kitchen is all coming together, I will be figuring out our counter tops and hopefully getting them in at the end of the week or latest the beginning of the following week. Which then means we can get our sink in and then stove and dish washer and refrigerator in to make the kitchen complete! then we can actually cook again! Can't wait. Then the really exciting parts, we will be painting upstairs Monday and or Tuesday because............... we get our CARPET in on Wednesday!!! That is going to make Rusty in to a real home! we can move in upstairs and then really move in down stairs too, organize the garage ect ect. There is still some construction in the bathrooms upstairs but we will just have to be very careful with the carpets. We did feel that it was still the better way to go getting the carpets earlier. It wouldn't be as big of a deal but with a baby who naps and loud construction it was necessary.

Oh yes and Friday morning the girl woke up with a sore throat and runny nose and didn't want to eat anything. sigh. She has been so awesome through this though, I can't love her more. I was cleaning and she came up to me kissed my arm and then hugged it and looked up at me with a huge sweet smile. goodness she is perfect.

Well sorry no pictures yet in all the moving I need to find my camera cord. I will add pictures after the carpet goes in, ON WEDNESDAY!!!!!! but I'm not that excited ha ha.

Happy New Year, It is the greatest holiday!