House Update

I know there haven't been any updates recently, but the past couple of weeks we've been busy working on the new house. All the major work (Kitchen, bathroom) is pretty much done, as are all the bedrooms. Now we just have to finish up painting the living room and wait for Home Depot to come by and finish our carpeting and Kitchen cabinets. We've had a couple of bad run ins with Home Depot recently (cracked mirror, hole in tub...), so hopefully the carpeting and cabinets work out okay.

The moving company brought our stuff from storage and dropped it off at the new house yesterday. There were only 2 guys, but they managed to get all of our stuff unloaded and our furniture reassembled in about 2 hours. So now, in addition to all the sawing and painting that's still going on, we have all of our stuff crammed into various rooms. We haven't officially started living in the house yet, but I think it's safe to say we'll be living out of boxes for a little while.

We've already run into a couple of crises with the new house (that is in addition to our mishaps with Home Depot). First was the pool crisis. Considering that neither Phil or I have ever had a pool or lived anywhere with a pool we had no idea how to take care of one. And the 5 minute explanation the previous owner gave didn't quite stick. As a result we ended with a very green pool...I don't think this picture properly conveys how green the pool was, but trust me when I say it was really green...
But thankfully after a couple of trips to the local pool cleaning supply store and some free water diagnosis the pool is back to normal. Just in time for hurricane Hanna...
Second crisis was paint. It is official that Phil and I are no longer allowed to pick out paint colors. Somehow we have managed to pick out a collection of colors that resemble a child's coloring
book. First we have Big Bird yellow...
Next we have baby blue, which isn't too bad in our opinion...
And then we have the master bedroom which is a toss up between Kermit the Frog and Yoshi green. Although the color seems to have grown on Phil. It reminds him of a movie green screen, which I guess makes it easier for him to pretend he can fly...
When it came time to start painting the living room we almost ended up having to add bright orange to our mix of colors, but luckily we were able to settle on something a little more neutral before we got too far with the painting.

But not everything has been bad. Our granite countertops were just installed this past week and Phil is officially in love. We also had carpets installed in the 3 bedrooms. Phil was very excited
about the carpet, and I must admit it is quite soft. ^__^

More pictures to come as we finish moving in and getting settled.