At Last...

Remember our prediction that the final inspection would come on June 8th?  Weeeeellll, that didn't happen.  But a week later, this did.

Yes, that would be us carpeting the street in front of our house:).  Although it looked super different in the bright sunlight, it was PERFECT once installed inside.  Aiden and Liam would have posed for a picture attesting to this, except I couldn't get them to sit still...

They were so happy to be in their room at LAST!  And we were thrilled to get the carpet in because the very next day... we moved the contents of our storage unit into the new house!  To keep the kids out of the way, we baby gated them in their new room and threw boxes of toys in to them every 20 minutes.

When that grew old, I took them over for a swim in the 100 degree weather while Itay continued the move...

And at the end of the day, we were in!  Well, at least our STUFF was in:).  We were most definitely not ready to be habitating with two small children in this precarious situation.

The next week was spent trying to plow through that pile of boxes, and supervising the final coat of exterior paint...

putting in a comically pretty mailbox slot...

And setting up at least a few of our domestic areas so we could FINALLY get in the house!  

By Friday, we were ready.  

And yet, the work is not done.  Saturday saw a crew clearing the back patio and leveling the yard to prep it for a deck and lawn!!! Theoretically in the next few weeks!

I am so excited to finally have my stuff back.  I really forgot how much I missed all my kitchen gadgets!  We enjoyed our first family dinner with our first house guests, Uncle Sam and Aunt Sara...

We are home.

AT LAST.