How could I forget??

I finally got in the tub! It was heavenly!! 

Moving time!

Tuesday morning we had our final we all through at 8. We woke up to a beautiful sunrise at the cottage and headed over to mikes moms to load our stuff. 

Before we went we already had both cars and 2 trailers loaded and ready to go. This is all the stuff we had at mikes moms:

We went to lunch at dinosaur BBQ and then walked over to our closing at 1:00. 

We were happy campers :) 

We headed right to the house and started unloading. We got both trailers and cars unloaded, we loaded up another trailer and our cars again, grabbed Madi, and mike went to pick up the furniture at raymour and Flanagan. Madi and I ran a few errands, my mom brought Declan home, and we all met at home for pizza :) 

The first night in we had all of our stuff that had been with us at mikes moms, and what did I make sure to unpack??

It is pretty overwhelming having every single article of clothing that you own in one spot!  Oh, and the closet wasn't the ONLY thing I unpacked, I also tackled about a dozen boxes and totes in various rooms but mostly the kitchen. 

During the week mike brought more stuff from storage and we continued to unpack. Here are pics from I think Wednesday night:

As you can see we had some painting done. ^^ 

We also bought a new couch and chair and a half for the loft, both are sleepers:

On Thursday night Declan enjoyed his first bath in our jetted tub:

Friday and Saturday allowed for quite a bit of unpacking and getting settled.

Madis room, she picked the color which I really like:

Declan's room:

The loft: 

The family room:

Kitchen:

Sunday we went to mikes dad and stepmoms to get the rest of our stuff. They generously allowed us to store stuff in their basement when we started staging our house. We got back from their house and went to pick up new bedroom furniture that I found for sale on Facebook. It was a physically exhausting afternoon!! But we are in love with our bedroom set!! 

I was grateful for the extra day off on Monday. I got some work done around the house and also enjoyed a drive around the lake with my parents. 

This week has been hanging pictures, clearing out boxes and totes, and cleaning up. Declan's room is pretty put together, the other rooms aren't quite done. I'll post more pics when they are :) 

A huge thanks to mikes mom for giving us a home for 4 1/2 months, mikes dad and stepmom for giving us a storage space, my parents for all of the help moving, and Sara for watching Declan this weekend :) 

Our last few homeless days...

We enjoyed a couple weeks at the cottage before we moved, so grateful to have such amazing weather! 

Declan and dad collected pine cones: 

They went fishing in the morning before work/school:

And went hunting:

The last walk through before the big move!

These pics I think were taken October 2 or 3rd... 

Landscaping:

Mikes office:

The loft:

I. Am. In. Love.

We stopped by the house today. They put out real door and doorknob on so my breaking and entering skills are no longer sufficient. Today I used my Madilynn skills.

She got in and then realized the door was unlocked. Hahahahaha! 

Anyways... They vacuumed and swept, patched some more paint, and took the paper off the vinyl floors. 

And more importantly... They put in out counter tops!! And I'm in 💕

I love love love it. 

Here is a close up of the color

We went upstairs to find our bathroom complete. We even have water now.

And we also have closet shelves now. Here is half of my closet, I may sleep in there next Tuesday!

Carpet and lotsa dirt

Declan and I ventured over to the house yesterday and unfortunately everything was locked up tight. So I did what anyone would do and went back to the car to grab this:

I used to be pretty good and breaking and entering and apparently I've still got it. My poor library card is a little banged up on the left side but oh well, we got in :) 

Yesterday they did carpet in most of the house! 

And they brought in a whole lotta dirt

They also poured rocks for our driveway.

I believe they are painting and carpeting again today as well as doing outdoor work. Hard to believe that 2 weeks from today we will be officially moving in!! 

Oh... I also received an email last night that we are CLEARED TO CLOSE! I'm so ready to do this!!

Update on colors

Well after lots of drama and overcomplicating everything, Madilynn has changed her room color:

I'm sure you were all dying to know. 

And here is a close up of our colors:

Kitchen, morning room, and family room

Accent wall in our master:

More updates

Today we had a fireplace!!

The plumber was there so we had toilets, faucets, shower heads, and our outdoor hose spickets. 

Here is the back of the morning room completely sided, I love it! 

And then I met our friend Derek at the model house to talk paint. Below are our colors. The red is in the family room and kitchen/morning room for accent walls, light blue is an accent wall in the master bedroom, and crazy blue will be all of madis room.