Slowly but Surely

Slowly but surely the house it starting to become our home. Thomas has been gone this week and while he's gone, its been my goal to get as much done as I possible can. I think Thomas will be most surprised to see the basement. When he left, my guess there were about 30 boxes, all stacked up. I think I maybe have 7 left. Makenna's room is completely finished as well as her bathroom. Kitchen is put away for the most part, just a few pictures hanging out on the counter waiting for Thomas to hang. Each boy and Tom & I each have about 3 boxes left to unpack. So, I'm getting here and happy with all my progress. Why the hurry, you may ask. Christmas is in just over a week and I haven't even started my Christmas baking! Me being me, I can't even think about baking until the rest of the house is clean. My goal is to have enough done but Friday that I can start baking on Saturday. Normally Thomas doesn't like me to be too busy when he's home so I'm trying to get most everything done so I can spend time with him on Friday and he won't mind my busyness on Saturday and Sunday as long as he can be my taste tester!
I hope to have some pictures posted of the house but that probably won't happen until after Christmas!

Makenna mad the Honor Roll

Check it out... You'll find her under the freshman!
Way to go Makenna Jo!!

http://www.couleenews.com/articles/2008/11/27/school/wshshonorroll.txt

Our new house

Well, we did it!! We closed on our new house on Monday, December 1st and we are so thankful for the jouney God took us through to get here!! Last night Thomas and I cuddled up on the couch in front of the fireplace and we both couldn't believe that we own this house!! This is a big up-grade for us, its double the square footage of our old house!! We love that the family room downstairs is so huge.
We have so many boxes to put away and don't really know where to even start. I'm in training all next week so I'm going to try to get the livingroom and kitchen (we get our new stove and fridge this morning)unpaked and usable before I leave tomorrow night!
Move in day was fun, due to the weather. The picture about was taken before the movers arrived on 12/3! Thomas had meeting all morning long which left me to shovel the driveway and sidewals so the movers wouldn't take snow in. We had more stuff then we thought, we had two semituck filled with the Helgeson's stuff. It's going to take me months to put things away.

We are homeowners again

Yesterday we finally were able to sign closing papers on our new house. If you haven't seen the house, here is the link for a virtual tour (I'm not sure how long the link will be active)
http://www.justsnooping.com/tours/2456438/?b=true
This house was a short sell and there was nothing short about it!! But, we are very happy with the house and can't wait to get all settled!! This house is an up-grade for us and almost double the size of our old house!! The boys are so funny because they just run all over because they don't know what to do with all that space.
Tomorrow the household good will arrive and then the hard work starts. There are several room that need to be painted but all of our supplies are in storage so I guess we'll have to wait for that....once thing at a time.

"Stuff"

I am so excited. I just got a phone call from my hubby and our household goods come to our new house on Wednesday!! So, we'll be getting all our "stuff" so I can unpack and make our house a home!!

In a few short hours, we'll be signing paper on the new house. What a journey its been. This new house is so worth the wait! God has taught us so much in the past few months, and I'm so thankful for his Grace.

I'm most excited to take a bath my new tub and to put up Christmas decoration. Last night we drove by to see what decorations were up in the neighborhood! Tonight we are going to go over to the house and have pizza delivered even though we have nothing in the house. We are going to turn on the gas fireplace and listen to music and just hang out with nothing in the house. It should be fun. I'll post so pictures on facebook of the house later tonight!!

Thank you

I would like to personally thank the inventor of the DVD in the mini van. While we have young children this is one of the most important feature for us. This weekend on our way home from Tom's parents we ran into some bad weather. A 7 hour drive home turned into 11! The kids did an amazing job but I'm afraid of what the out come may have been without the DVD player!!