WE DID IT!!!

We MOVED in!  HURRAY!!!

Would you believe, the minute we move in - and I'm all excited to spend time with my husband... he has a week's worth of training in Ohio to do!??!  WT&#^!#R@#%?

Ha.  So, we don't have internet connect yet.  Our stuff is still everywhere.  Salt is still present on our brand-newly-refurbished hardwood floors (no time for me to mop this week)

(and yes, I'm updating this while at work... but shhhhh don't tell anyone...)

I just HAD to share that we moved in!!  IT WAS SO EXCITING!!!  And then so frustrating when my dishwasher doesn't work, my stove doesn't work, my microwave is still in the basement, internet is not working... shall I continue?  (and the man that knows how to fix it all is GONE!)

Bah!  Of course that would happen.

But on move day, I got us all some of the BEST donuts in the WORLD!!

Bah!  And all Mary is concerned with is Daddy coming home to fix our TV.  :)  Because yes, that is not up and running either.

Okay - back to work.  More details and pictures AND video to come soon!.

MUCH love to you all!!!!  MWAH!!!

So many choices... too many decisions!

I am so stinking excited for the tile wall in the kitchen!!

Made TWO trips to Lowe's today.  Its a 25 min. drive from our current house, about 15 from Noble.  That's a lot of time in commute.  I'm SO ready to be done with this.

But really.  I mean, really.  Must there be that many choices for a toilet seat?!?  These are only half of what was there!  (these are the oblong ones).  Geesh.

We also wiped out their entire inventory of Antique Brass Finish canopy kit for the top of some pendant lights/chandeliers.  :)  They even had two whole racks of them at once!  (bought 4 of them and got that last one down there)

So, Tom and I hung this AWESOME chandelier - I bought it back in July, maybe?  I did post a photo of it.  At any rate, its beautiful and very old.  (Its heavy!)  So, well, we hung it - turned the light on - it worked!  Turned the light off, secured it some more, turned the light back on - and saw a spark and it fried.  :(  Bummer.  Means we'll have to take it down and all (you every hung a chandelier?  That crap is not easy.  Not horribly hard either but not easy).

BTW - I'm loving the color in the dining room! :)

TALK SOON!

ANOTHER Late night at Noble

Tom and I are usually asleep by 10.  Its 11:30 and he is just hopping in shower.  Alarm set for 6:30 tomorrow.  Ick. 

Today we did LOADS of things:

- Mickey put more backsplash in.  Also put in a 'mosaic' behind the stove. I think it looks AWESOME!  Scroll down for pics
- Beth (Tom's mom) cleaned a BUNCH of light fixtures.  There is this really cool orange one by the back door entrance.  I'm lovin it!
- Josh stained the stairs.  Yahoo!  I think staining is almost done ;)
- Tom put in our master ceiling fan.  Caulked around jack and jill bath and installed that light.  Cleaned the master bath, boy was it dirty!  I know he did LOADS of other things but i wasnt there much today. 
- Tom and I put up the tape to paint Mary's purple stripes.

When I think about all that we've done and have been doing, its soooo much and we've worked sooo hard.  When I think about what else has to be done, I get a bit overwhelmed.   :/  Not one bedroom upstairs has a door to it yet.  Kitchen diswasher, stove, disposal, etc. all still need to be connected... and we are going to live in it in one week!!  Yikes.

Here are the pics I took tonight.  Enjoy! 

And HAPPY LAST SUNDAY OF WORKING 'AT' NOBLE to us!!  :)

Stripes in Mary's room (Time consuming!)

Tom cleaning the bathroom.  12 hours later it still smelled like bleach!

Sconces in living room.  They are neat.  I thought they were really old but turns out they're pretty new!

Light fixutre in 'mud room' area.  This has GOT to be original.

Another original sconce - in dining room.  These have also GOT to be original.  Right?

'Mosaic' Tile wall insert above stove.  YAHOO!!!

ITS ALL COMING TOGETHER!!

Chocolate cures everything... and helps with the shopping!

I'm on my second Hershey bar right now.  Mary is sleeping, I should be sleeping too.  Woke up at 3am for work the other day, and finished work (related items) at 11:30pm.  Ick. Problem is - I have TOO many thoughts running through my mind.  Like:

8 MORE DAYS until move in!

Did we pay everyone this week?

Should I really spend that much $ on THIS vanity top?!?!

But its a kid vanity top.  Don't want granite - I've seen that water stained too often.

I STILL have to unpack.

Oh wait - I have to pack EVERYTHING in this house.  

And its impossible to carry boxes in front of THIS belly.

Oh shoot - gotta change the laundry out.

Okay.  Now - what type of under cabinet lighting should I get?  

WHY are there SO many choice for THAT?!?!

Oh yeah - gotta order these (spotlights for the stove/tile wall!)

Mickey was installing the backsplash tile in the kitchen yesterday - IT LOOKS SO AWESOME!! Didn't have time to take a picture, I was on my way home from the airport and it was already 7pm (had to go pick up Mary).  But I gotta tell you, Tom is STOKED about the countertops/backsplash and all and SO AM I!!!  So is our neighbor Rick too.  I tell you what, he has excellent taste in home interior design/decorating!  (so, I call him to ask him q's about everything.  Hah!)

The guys have painted the living room, haven't seen it yet.  Doors are pretty much all stained and oiled, and ready to be installed.  Jack and Jill bath is painted and the tub surround is up (it was cheap and looks a little cheap, but its for the kids, eh?!?)  

THIS WEEKEND ITS GO TIME!!!

Anyone in Pittsburgh free and want to come help out?  Haha... we could use it.  Promise - this is the last move we will ever make in pittsburgh!!

Happy Friday ya'll.  Have a great day and thanks for listening.  Love you all.  Come visit us sometime in the burgh - would love to have you!

Late night at Noble

Just got off the phone with Tom.  He'll be there late tonight.  I need to be up at 3am for a flight tomorrow.

No rest for the weary, eh?

Oh - and the other day I asked Mary, 'What letter does B start with?'.  Bah!  And, Tom spilled his take-out fatoush salad all over his lap.   Better days are coming - RIGHT?!?!  They have to.

Speaking of better days.... COUNTERTOPS WERE INSTALLED TODAY! 

Here are a BUNCH of befores.  I'll add the afters whenever I have a chance to take them.  Tom took one after today.  They look FABULOUS :)

 

We only have 10 days left until we move in.  Things are going to start picking up, and FAST.  I think we are going to have Mickey do as much work as possible!! :)  (its amazing how much time it actually does take to paint!!  And we still have stairs left to stain!!)