Post Wedding Updates

Man, the house (or at least the front portion of it) is really coming together. With all the wonderful gifts we received for our wedding our kitchen is pretty much complete and ready to use. The living room and dining area is now all set and has already been used as we had most of the group over to hang out before we left for Ohio. Since our last update we've had a lot of additions. Unfortunately we didn't take a a whole lot of pictures of every step but we have tried in the last few weeks to take as many as possible.

This first after wedding post actually happened before the wedding.

When we got home for the wedding Stephs cousin Matt had a great and very important wedding gift for us - a new AC unit and the use of his crane to lift it on to the roof!

That's Matt's son Chase in the operators chair and, yea, he's actually operating the crane ... you'll see! But meanwhile .. Garrett looking confused!

And there it is, Matt giving Chase the directions. He actually worked it pretty smoothly, without any close calls or scary moments.

Smoothly up over the house .... and onto the roof!

Big Update - Lots of pictures!

First, Geoff replaced the toilet in the master bathroom. Voila!

He also started on the built in shelving ... and finished.

Steph decided the kitchen needed to be started, and began painting before the range came in.

The mess of a sink that Geoff created ....

The guest bedroom is finished!

Meanwhile ... Tiffany painted the fireplace....

... and Billy and Garrett trimmed the tree in the front!

Then they installed the range ..

... and Geoff pretended to be working on the new master showerhead ...

Then Geoff stopped pretending to do stuff and just stood around!

To wrap it up.. the sink miraculously cleaned itself! JK, Steph and Jacque teamed up on it.

After we cleaned up a bit we brought Shadow over for her first visit. She was timid at first, but eventually was walking around like it was her house.

The House is Comin Along

The kitchen isn't really that clean, except for the floor (thanks mom!), but it looks pretty nice in this pic for some reason.

On Sunday Matt came over and did a good job painting a lot of the trim. This corner is in the kitchen, pretty clean!

Here's the little temporary fridge we finagled. It keeps my water, beer and milk cold so I have no complaints!

Here's Matt finishing painting.

After he painted the trim we decided to put the handle on the front door. We had been needing to drill a hole through the door to install the handle and since you can't really mess that up, we had Matt do it!

Yup, he's actually using a measuring tape. Something I probably would not have done...


It didn't take long before he had the whole thing installed. I'm working on getting the video turned, but for now you'll just have to tilt your head!

On Monday night I decided to try and get my office finished. This entailed painting the rest of the trim, edging the tops and bottoms of the walls and painting the shelving unit. I thought I had taken more pictures of the process but apparently I didnt!

By next update I hope to have the shelving unit finished and the master bathroom finished!