Checkin' it off...

Since moving in to our new house at the end of April it has felt like there is a never-ending check list of things that we want to get done! It doesn't help that the house is over 60 years old either though. Finally we decided to recruit my father to come up and spend a couple of days with us so we could use his man power and hopefully knock out some of the bigger projects. Well, those couple of days turned into about 5 full days of work! We are so blessed though because some of the work was electrical and to hire someone to do those things would have probably been boo-coo bucks! We tried to keep him fed and well rested and even threw in some baby time to keep him happy:) Our biggest project by far was the outside....we had to build up the foundation around the house which required a truck bed full of dirt and some re-landscaping

...but it is finally finished

and the grass is even growing for us!

He also built shelves in the basement so that I can continue my addiction of organization down there:) The feeling of owning compared to renting is like riding a see saw. Sometimes it is great because you can change, rip out, paint, demolish whatever you chose! But, there is no one to call but yourself to pay for those things that can't be lived with/without or to fix this problem or that. But, I don't think we would change it for anything now:) A see-saw can be pretty fun!