Moving In!

As of this past Wednesday, January 16th, we've officially been living in the new house!  We both absolutely love it-it's big enough to not be crowded, yet still cozy feeling.  The interior also turned out nicely-we have lots of wood all over the place-cabinets, doors, trim, etc. which looks wonderful.  The animals are getting used to it here as well.  None of them is crazy about the laminate floors (too slippery), but now that we have rugs down all over the place, they are much happier.  We still have some things over at the old house that we need to bring over, but I would guess that ~80% of our stuff is here now (not counting all of the stuff we still have in the old mudroom).  We've also disconnected all of the utilities to the old house, which means no more outrageous heating bills!  Once we have our things over here, we will get rid of the old house.  Matt may decide to save part of it as a job/storage trailer, but we cannot have the old house on the property when we finally close our loan.  I'm hoping we'll be able to keep the mudroom as a storage shed for the time being, but that's it.  

In other exciting news, I've accepted a position with the Montana Department of Revenue as a cartographer in their Bozeman office!

The Interior of the New House

Here's some pictures of the interior of the new house. The house is pretty basic-3 bedrooms, 2 baths, living room, kitchen/breakfast nook and utility room. As you can see, the interior is still going to need a lot of work. As soon as we have the heat and electricity hooked up, the drywall guy will come and finish the walls and fix some of the cracks. When he's done, the flooring guy will come in and finish the floors. The bathrooms and kitchen have the same vinyl flooring, while the rest of the house will have wood laminate flooring. The siding guy will also probably come down with one of the other guys and finish the outside siding. All of these different people, including the guys who came to set up the house are employed by the dealer from whom we bought the house. If the other guys are half as good as the ones who were already here, I'll be extremely happy. Our set-up crew was great-not only did the set-up the house, but helped us to fix our neighbor's fence that we took down to bring the house in.

Matt wanted me to put up this picture of me and Avi sleeping in together this morning

Looking through the house to Ross Peak

The living room

A closeup of the living room floor

The master bedroom and bathroom

The master bedroom-living room in background

Front of the living room

Back of living room

Bedroom #1

The other bathroom

Bedroom #2

Looking across the living room to the kitchen and master bedroom

A view of the front porch

The Kitchen

Kitchen Sink

Looking back at the living room

Sunlight on the countertop

Breakfast Nook-future sliding glass door on left

The house is set!

Too many pictures to upload them all to this page, so take a look here at all of today's excitement.

The house is here!

We're getting really close

The house will be delivered tomorrow afternoon and we'll set it first thing Wednesday morning. Although we are essentially ready to set the house, we still have a ton of work to do before we can officially move in. Anyways, here's a couple of pictures from Saturday-the i-beams over the foundation and Avi helping.

The house rolls offline. . .

Tomorrow! We're looking at a delivery date in the next week or two. Are we ready? No. Will we be by then? Probably ready enough that the house could be set on the foundation, but otherwise, no.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We (once again, mostly Matt) poured the 2nd half of the walls late yesterday. Matt braved the freezing temperatures (around 0 when he finally finished) to get the walls done and covered. I helped a little bit, but I wimped out and went inside. Although we are not close to being done, we only have to set our I-beams across the width of the foundation before the house gets here. Everything else can be done after the house is here, including pouring the basement floor. I still haven't heard when the house will be here, so hopefully we will have a lot more done before then.