Countdown to Spring Break!

Thank goodness Spring Break is almost here! Between grading, the house, planning and many other things, there has been no time to breathe! It will be lovely to go to bed at night without the anxiety of having to grade and get plans together a whole week! Now, I say that, but I will be grading, but it will be on my time. What a concept!

We are in the final days of the remodel, thank GOODNESS! the kitchen is beautiful with the final touches going on today and tomorrow. Finally a stove will be in tomorrow! I am so excited to bake a tri-tip with peas and potatoes! The family room carpet will also be in. What a difference that will make. (pictures will be posted at the end of the week)

Feeling the time crunch!

It's been a couple weeks since I posted due to the fact that I have way too much going on! Keith and I are at our 3 month mark until the wedding. I am at T-1.5 weeks until my bridal shower at my house. I am really excited for it, but at the same time am feeling extremely crunched. Our tile was not in this past week as it was supposed to be so we have now been about 2 months without a kitchen and a room that has a rubber floor in desperate need of carpet. In the time frame of living in the new house without a stove and oven, I realized that I actually do enjoy cooking and find it very relaxing. I had never really thought too much about it before. So, I am really looking forward to a stove and brand spankin new one at that! At least I got my kitchen stuff unpacked last weekend thanks to my Mom and sister.

So, I woke up yesterday, Monday, a day off school, to the lovely sound of hammers and the tile saw! I was so excited! The tile in the kitchen is getting done! But why does it always happen that the thing you want most doesn't happen at the best time. Why do I say this? Well, I had just woken up after 7 hours of sleep due to the fact that I sat in my car the evening before in traffic leaving South Tahoe for 7 hours! It was definately a memory and a lesson that people need to follow the caltrans rules of chains and 4x4. Some person who thought their car could make the pass without either found themselves being towed and taken to the hospital. What a day!

In the mean time as well, we are anxiously awaiting two friends to have their babies! It is such an exciting time and we can't wait to see Baby Girl Johnson and Baby A Boland!

Will post pics of the finished kitchen and carpeted room soon!

Master Bedroom

Uncle Adam's old bedroom and furniture

Great Dresser

Beautiful carpet and light

Old closet doors

Destruction

some old floor and new floor

Keith put all our furniture together while I was in Vegas

New Door out to the Hot Tub

hall bath remodel

old vanity and lights

Beautiful toilet

pink and gold shower

Toilet still stands, no more bathtub

only the toilet left

New vanity and sink: So much better!

Gorgeous tile work!

The kitchen ......

old kitchen: look at that light!

The old wall and original stove

Tear out

New Bar Area

No more wall b/w the kitchen and dining room

New cabinets. They are a little more red. The camera didn't do a good job

check in time

Still doing some rearranging and unpacking

So, Life goes so fast that at times, I have no idea where the weeks have gone.  We are 3.5 months away from our wedding day.  Invitations will hopefully get finished this weekend so they can be sent out asap.  I still vividly remember Keith proposing on May 16th last year.  It didn't seem like June 2009 would come fast enough.  It came way too fast, but everything is coming together. 

The house is coming along well.  Our cabinets came in and the granite may go in tomorrow with tile and appliances following soon afterward.  Once this rain stops, our windows can go in.  I just ask that it is all done by April 4th for my Bridal Shower and that we can take the contractor paper off the floor and clean the house.   (That's 4 months since we started!!!!)