Checking off stuff from that damn list!

We are so close! The electrical is all done, inspected and approved. We have a new water heater and it's all installed and working. For the first time since we've owned this house there's hot water in it, huge step!

A couple weeks ago we put up sheet rock on the ceiling in the bedroom downstairs, it was one of the hardest things we've done so far... definitely not something I'd like to do again. Anyway, now it's mudded and sanded and soon will be primed and beautiful! After that, just paint and crown molding and we're done! (oh and also the closet has a giant hole we have to address... minor fix)

The bathroom is all primed, we had to scrape the 5 thousand layers of plastic paper and paint on the shelves, and it was a mayor headache... first I tried soapy water thinking it was the same as wall paper, but I quickly found that it was not cutting it, so Dan told me to use the torch, and I used that for a while, a long while, so I ended up using a super strong chemical paint stripper and that did the trick! I spent like 5 days on those damn shelves, between striping sanding and priming, but now they looks so nice and clean, it was worth it. The walls are all patched up and, the window has been scraped and primed, and tomorrow we are tiling the walls! After that we'll pick a paint color and call that room done! (I'm sure there's about 10 things I'm forgetting right now... cause when you think it's done, you're always wrong...one of the many things I've leaned on this journey).

The Kitchen is looking awesome, with a new back door and beautiful tile on the floor! I finished that today, we still have to grout, but on the pictures you'd never know... ha! we still have quite the list of things to check off on the kitchen, but it's moving, and every step is oh so exciting!

So there it is, so much progress despite a minor set back (a few days in the hospital, it's all good now, no worries it was not house related, just a side effect of being so tall, poor Max) and many, many cuts on Lilo's left hand and a few boxes of band aids (all house related) but we are going strong and moving forward, quickly approaching our move in date!!

Here are some pictures of the surprise Valentine's day picnic I made for Max... and some more progress...cheers!