What a Blur!

The last couple of weeks have been quite a blur. Last week included Ryan finishing finals, closing on our house and my mom and her husband, Steve, coming to visit. They arrived late Wednesday night and flew back home first thing Sunday morning. It was a quick trip, but we were so blessed to have them.

After a series of chaotic events, we closed on our house last Thursday afternoon, and we immediately got to work on it. My mom and Steve helped us so much to get the house ready. Steve is quite the handyman, and he and Ryan worked so hard. They installed the garage door opener, put up the mailbox, repaired some of the doors, changed the locks, took down all the kitchen lighting and installed recessed lighting in its place. They also fixed the toilets, installed all the kitchen appliances and trimmed the kitchen cabinets down so that our new refrigerator would fit. My mom and I spent most of the time working on the kitchen--removing wallpaper, priming and painting. For those of you who have been wondering, it looks like two coats of red paint will be enough. (I had heard it would take five or six coats.) Our kitchen is just about done, aside from a few touch-ups of paint.

It was a little sad to spend our entire time with my mom and Steve working on the house, but words can't begin to express how humbled we were by their unselfish desire to serve in that capacity.

Ryan and I took Sunday off to spend some time together. We haven't gotten to do much of that recently due to his finals. I had to work Monday and Tuesday, and Ryan spent a lot of time painting the ceilings and removing wallpaper borders while I was at work. Can I just brag on my husband for a minute? He is such a great little painter! He has almost painted all the ceilings throughout our house. That's been such a blessing because that's not a fun job.

I'm off work the next two days, so we're going to spend that time painting. I took Wally over to our new house after I got off work tonight. He was so excited to see Ryan there and to see everything. I think he's already sniffed out the majority of the house. Wally was by far most excited about his big new backyard. I really can't wait to play with him out there. He's going to love it!

Anyway, I just want to take a minute to apologize to everyone for being so out of touch lately. I'm sorry for unanswered emails, unreturned phone calls and for a lack of blogging. :) I hope everyone had a wonderful Mother's Day.