Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Since This is The Only Thing in Our Life Right Now...

More pictures of our ever progressing basement. We offically moved in January 5th and boy that was a very long day. We spent the whole day moving stuff into the basement and cleaning the upstairs to get it ready for the new renters. Okay, so it wasn't completely finished when we moved in...we still had the baseboards, the doors and trim, and finally the countertop in the kitchen.

One week, three days in basement: All doors almost completely hung, only the closet door left. No baseboards yet or a kitchen countertop. Might I mention that without a countertop it's really really hard to cook. We've been eating frozen pizzas and scamming off the parental units (thank you so much). We have someone coming over tomorrow to measure for a top from the Home Depot and apparently it takes four weeks to order the countertop in, so if anyone has any good ideas on easy, dishless dinners let me know! Oh, btw, did I mention that Nate washed our dishes in bathtub...totally gross and seemingly unsanitary! I couldn't even go in the bathroom while he was doing it, but no countertop means no kitchen sink...ick. Well, here are some pictures of our kitchen so far. I think it looks nice and it will look even better with a top on it!!!Our niece Rylee. She is such a good little helper! She was right there with me while I put together the cabinets and once we finished a few she said, "It's fits Rylee!" She got in and then told me to get the camera! I guess she knew it would be a cute picture!
Going back to the college days. We haven't bought a couch yet so for the first week all we had to sit on was our camping chairs. Nate's dad told us we had to take a picture of it to show our kids one day otherwise they wouldn't believe it! Now we have a futon in there until we find a couch we like and want to buy.

7 comments:

Jaime Van Hoose Steele said...

I think it's rad you two are so grown up and own your own place and are fixing it up!! I'm working on getting to that point still :-)

Ps-kinda icky you're having wash dishes where you bathe....but hey, you gotta do what you gotta do! It' also reminds that I totally need to scrub down my shower.

Emily said...

it looks so pretty! my suggestion is crock pot and paper plates.

Summers Family said...

buy a piece of plywood to use as a temp. counter for now. later it is great for crafts and a board to contain the tap dancing to a small space.

Hansen Family said...

It looks great!! Its great to hear from you!!! All the way in Cananda. Hope you like it:)

Kim Hawryluk said...

The kitchen looks fantastic! LOVE the colour of the cabinets! Great work guys!! :)

jamirodana said...

HEY! Of course we remember the Maaaainnnnn's!
Where the heck are you guys? Are you still in Ootah?
We are in North Salt Lake livin' the dream! Hahahaha! Okay that made me laugh. We are not livin' the dream yet, but we are doing great! I really want a home though. Townhome just isn't cutting it for me:)
Especially with 3 kids.
Sweet blog!

Terra said...

Awesome! Good luck without the countertop.