another house update

On Monday when we got home from Florida we decided to check the progress on our house. So much has been done in a week! The counter tops and kitchen sink are in, all the walls are painted, the light fixtures and electrical are working. While we were there the floor guy arrived to put the linoleum in the laundry room, 1/2 bath, and Libby's bathroom. Yesterday when I drove by the floor people were working to put the tile in the kitchen, entry way and the master bath. I am guessing that carpeting is next. Only 3 weeks, 2 days until we move in!!

Oh so tired....

Mike, Austin and I got back from Orlando yesterday afternoon. The weather was beautiful. The only day it was really hot was Sunday. The other days were warm but bearable. The mornings were humid but cleared off during the days. It rained on us a couple of times but it didn't last very long. We got to Orlando around 8pm on Wednesday. We were to arrive around 6:30 but we had an hour delay in Chicago because our plane didn't have any pilots.

We stayed at a house with 7 bedrooms and 4 1/2 bathrooms. There were 16 people there total (Austin, 5 girls and 10 softball players). Our house had a pool, a game room and was super close to everything. After we got to the house, we went and got a few groceries and some dinner. We hung out the rest of the night waiting for 8 house guests to arrive around midnight. The boys' first game wasn't until 6pm Thursday night so we had plenty of time to hang out, which is what we did.

Since the boys lost their first game they didn't play again until 2pm on Friday. So that morning we got ready, went out to breakfast and headed to the park. Unfortunately, the boys lost that game too so they were out of the tournament. Friday night a few of us went shopping and hung out at "Old Town", which is a carnival type area with tons of shops. This turned into a long night and nobody at the house got much sleep except for Austin.

Saturday 13 (6 from another house) of us went to Disney World. 6 of us only had 2-3 hours of sleep. We still had an AWESOME time and stuck it out for 14 hours!! We went to Hollywood Disney and Magic Kingdom. It wasn't too hot and the lines weren't too long for any of the rides. We were all in bed before midnight Saturday night.

Sunday we went back to the ball park to watch an Omaha girls team that was playing in the championship game. Then we went to eat lunch, did a little more shopping and back to the house to lounge around. At night 11 of us went mini-golfing and out for dessert. We packed up our things when we got back since we had to leave for the airport at 7am Monday morning.

The little amount of sleep we got, the go-go-go, and the excitement of traveling has worn us out. We had a great time. I did miss my girl and I am glad to be home to spend time with her and get some rest (hopefully) before our next big event-Mike's 40th birthday party.

We're leaving on a jet plane....again

Austin, Mike and I are leaving for Florida on Wednesday. We will be gone until next Monday. I am excited for a vacation but I am going to miss my girl. This will be the longest I have EVER been away from Libby. I am sure she will have a good time with Aunt Jacque. It is going to be interesting to see what they have done to our house while we are gone.

We decided to take Libby to do something fun last night. We took her to the "Amazing Pizza Machine". It is like Las Vegas for kids. They have tons of video games, bowling, golf, go-kart racing, a pizza buffet and tons of other stuff. The first 20 minutes Libby just ran around to all of the games, seeing what they do and pushing buttons. We tried to get her to ride a couple of the kiddie rides but she didn't stay in one place long enough. So needless to say, she is a pretty cheap date. I guess we had better enjoy that while it lasts!!

Libby is getting so big! She talked up a storm. She recognizes letters and numbers and knows the difference between them. However, all letters are "Bs" and all numbers are "9s". Libby loves to read. She will go in her room and sit on the floor and look at books for 15 or 20 minutes at a time. Libby is very entertaining and keeps us laughing all the time.

Our new house slideshow part 3

More pictures of the house! Things are coming along great. See the pictures to check the progress. All of the inside doors are hung, the laundry room sink is in, the bathroom cupboards are in just to mention a few things. We didn't think they were ever going to get the deck on since it has been raining here the last 5 days. As soon as it is finished and the mud clears up, I will try to get some pictures of the back of the house.

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We are very excited to get out of this apartment living. Our hot water heater has gone out 3 times in the last 3 weeks. Hopefully we won't have that problem since ours will be brand new.

house update

Things are progressing nicely on our house. All the dry wall is sanded, the concrete pad is down for the basement walkout, the posts are in for the deck and the sidewalk is poured. We have been looking at paint colors. Mike wants to paint one or two walls in about 4 or 5 rooms. I think that is pretty ambitious thinking right now, we will see how it actually turns out when the day comes. Yesterday we went to NE Furniture Mart. We bought a new high top table to put in our kitchen and a day bed set to put in one of the bedrooms. Someday Libby will sleep in but for now we are going to have 2 guest bedrooms. We are going to have PLENTY of room for lots of overnight visitors.

Our new house slideshow part 2

We found out last week that we get to move into our new house on October 17th!! This is a week earlier than we originally thought. Since we don't have to be out of our apartment until October 31st this will give us some time to paint some walls and take our time moving in. All of the walls will be painted a "khaki" color before we move in but we might decide we need a few new colors. Hopefully everything will be spic and span so I don't have to clean (except our apartment when we move out).

All of the dry wall is up now. We went in the afternoon so I could snap a few pictures (see slideshow link below). It looks SO much bigger with the walls up! Everytime we go in, it makes me more excited! I am not looking forward to the repacking and the unpacking again but it will all be worth it when I don't have to live in an apartment anymore

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home again, home again..

Libby and I are home again. We had a good time in Michigan. We just hung out, ate and Libby played with her cousins. We went swimming at Aunt Judy and Uncle Rob's one day but the rest of the time was too cool to go swimming or to the spray park. Libby had a good time playing with "JoJo" and Ben. Ben and Libby are definitely "kissing cousins". Ben would walk up to Libby, take the pacifier out of her mouth, they would kiss and then he would put the pacifier back in her mouth. They did it a few times and it was too cute. You would never have known that a few days before Ben was pushing her around.

Libby was a pretty good traveler on the way home. This time I had to go though security alone and all was going good until I had to take Libby's DVD player out of my carry on. She saw it and started screaming. I put it in the stroller with her for our 25 minute trek to the gate and everything was fine. She had a couple small fits when we had to board the plane and when I had to shut it off for take off. As soon as the plane started moving she fell asleep and slept until just before landing. I would absolutely do it again since she was such a good girl.