If that isnt the damn truth. Nick and I have now owned this house for a year and a half. While most people feel happy and ecstatic to have owned a house for that long, we do not. We often get discouraged because we are still not living in this house. We live in a very very small space which is not idea for two adults, a 6-month old, and 65-pound German Shepherd.For reference this is the space were living in, also to shamelessly show how cute my two babes are. 
We try to make the best of it and remember that in the end we will have a beautiful house with PLENTY of space for Oliver and future children to romp around in. We get through it with a lot of wine and an optimistic (most of the time) outlook. Friends, family, we do love to spend time with you and when our house is done we would LOVE to spend all of our free time with you!
That being said, we have made SO much progress. We've torn out plaster and lath in the entry way, kitchen, bathroom, dining room and closet. After that monster of a project I was rocking some nice arm muscle. We re-insulated the attic, the ceilings in all of those rooms, new sheetrock in all of those rooms, tore out the subfloor in the kitchen because, SURPRISE, it was not laid right and you could walk across it and feel like you were going to fall through. We put new floor joists in the kitchen. Preston spent one evening balancing on the floor joists while the whole time I imagined every terrible scenario waiting for him to fall through to the basement. We took out cement in the bathroom, laid new floor joists again with Preston balancing and me imagining his death. New subfloor, tile board in the bathroom. All new windows in the house, except for the basement, those will be done at a later time. Keep in mind we have 40 window.
A couple shout-outs for a few of our major projects, the first one bieng a new roof. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! to Howard Construction, I am not just saying this because Colton is my brother-in-law, but because literally no other construction company wanted to do our roof because it was so bad and was such a large project. They did a phenomenal job and got it done before it snowed. Highly recommend them for anything you could need. Another big thank you to Steve Thole Construction who just recently finished laying cement for us on the side of the house, he also got it done before it snowed.
Take a look through Here for the progress of what we have been doing or just take a tour below. If you're interested in me going into detail about certain projects I most definitely can, drop me a note! I just dont want to bore too many people. You can check out the dining room project here and the bathroom project and Dont forget to check out our new windows and see the process of sanding hardwoods
Xx
K