Sunday, May 3, 2009

Welcome to My World of Chaos

We're Back!! The last nine months of our lives have been ummm.... interesting. Moving completely out of our house, storing our all our belongings in a storage unit, living with Jolene's parents, experiencing 4 birthdays and numerous holidays in another person's home, carpooling our children back and forth between school and other activities, working overtime at our jobs (to help pay for this remodel), and working overtime (sometimes 18 hours a day) on our house, going WAY overbudget and taking longer than expected- we have finally moved back into our house (which is still quite a work in progress). Actually we have been in our house for about a month, but it's been too overwhelming and draining to even think about blogging about this whole experience.

Here are a few pictures of our house during this whole process (obviously this is not the whole house, and please remember nothing is finished yet).

This is the back of our house (before starting, during the construction, and the somewhat finished product). Once the inside of the house is finished, we will start to focus on redoing all the yard, landscaping, redoing the driveway/patio, and building a garage.


This is just the start of many more posts to come detailing our addition/remodel. Stay tuned.

9 comments:

Aimie said...

When do we get to come visit?? (and by visit I mean help unpack / finish any loose ends and landscape ofcourse :) )

Jolene said...

Aimie,
Please feel free to invite yourself over any time (we definitely need to talk and plan our next cousin parties). BTW Happy Birthday!!

Melissa said...

I agree with the both of you. We really need to get together. Maybe that can be our next get together is helping out. Let us all know.

Christina said...

So glad to see your back on your blog. The house looks great. Can't wait to see more pics. Wish I lived close so I could come help.

Aim Aug said...

Oh Jolene! Congrats on being back in your house! Good luck with your projects. We "finished" our house a year ago, and are still doing stuff.

Rach said...

That is some intense remodeling! It looks fantastic. I'm glad you're back to blogging. I love Christmas, but it's nice to know you're still alive and that you're back in your house!

Kristin said...

It looks fabulous... I can't wait to see it in person! *wink* wink *nudge* nudge * Let me know if there's anything we can do to help (perhaps return your steam cleaner).

And welcome back! I hope to see you more online. :o)

Bastians said...

I love the outside! Just post pics. of the inside, we'll understand if you're not all unpacked.

Chrystal said...

Woo Hoo! More space! What a project!