Moving Day!

Our Beautiful New Home!

After five short months of waiting...the big day finally arrived! We moved into our beautiful new house. We could not have done it however without the herculean efforts of Michael's family. Michael's father, uncle, brother-in-law, and of course Michael himself worked tirelssly all day to load and unload all our stuff with lots of help from the ladies as well. Megan and Michael's Mom and Sister did a great job getting all the final pieces packed up, making sure nothing was left behind, and helping with the actual moving as well.

Here are some pictures from the move:



Outside our apartment in D.C.

Inside our apartment in D.C.

"Strategery"

Our new kitchen, as opposed to our.....

Old kitchen!

Needless to say we are overwhemingly thrilled with the new house. Its way more space than we could possibly use right now, but one day we hope to "grow" into it. Until then we will enjoy all the new found space. We've been in the house for 3 weeks now and are still settling in, but enjoying it very much. We will post more pictures soon, we promise.

The Cutest Yellow House on the Block

Well our house took some major steps towards completion this week. The biggest, and most obvious from the pictures is that our house now has a color! They put up the siding. It looks even better than we had hoped for! We truly love it.

But that was not all, they also installed all of our cabinets in the kitchen and bathrooms and finished the tilework in the upstairs bathrooms.

We also have railings, light fixtures, electrical outlets and switches, and the fireplace is pretty much finished. Things are really moving along nicely.

We would like to take a moment and truly praise God for this blessing he has bestowed upon us!

The 4th of July!

We popped down to Williamsburg for the 4th. It was a beautiful and fun filled day with everything from a fresh farmer's market, to a cake and ice cream social, and of course fireworks to end the day!

A Blank Canvas

The trim work has been completed on the house and the painters were hard at work when we stopped by this past weekend - all walls and trim work. You can also see on the front of the house the porch columns and railing went in last week too! The house is really shaping up nicely and should be ready in no time. In fact we have a tentative move in timeframe. We expect to move in the weekend of August 15th!!!! Very exciting!

Moving right along...Drywall!

Well the construction of our house took another big step this past week. It has entered the drywall stage – meaning there are now actual rooms and such. You can really see it as a house now. We still cannot completely comprehend that this is our house. It's still so incredible to us!! We feel so blessed!

Here's the Family Room....

Entry Hall

Our wonderful (and patient) friend Amy, who indulged us as we walked through each room again, and again, and again...

They have started work on the front porch as well

Well, keep checking back for more pictures as the building progresses. And we keep saying it, but it's true...we cannot wait to have everyone over!!!

Up!

We went and saw Pixar’s latest animated feature film, Up, last week and absolutely loved it. We recommend that everyone go and see it; you will not be disappointed. Megan adds that even if you are not exactly a fan of animated movies (as she is not) you will still enjoy this movie!

The O.C.

Megan’s parents hosted us for a week at their time share in Newport Coast, California. It was very relaxing and very fun! Activities included a trip to Knott’s Berry Farm for one of their famous chicken dinners (and some boysenberry pie), an afternoon at Downtown Disney at Disneyland!!, and lots of beach and pool time.

Michael and Rich showed their appreciation for their chicken dinners by “thanking” the giant chicken!

We also got a chance to see some friends while we were out there. We got a visit from Jeanette, Caleb, and Issac one day, and we got to spend an afternoon with Janet as well!