(introducing #16 - our new home - taken early april)
(early beginnings of our bedroom)
(as you're walking up the stairs, looking into the living room to your right. the little nook to the right of the partial white separating wall is where we set up the computer.)
(after we officially moved in. sitting at the kitchen table looking out on our "secret garden" backyard area.)
(me about a week or two later very happy because i found my old siouxsie tinderbox era shirt)
The house closed on 3/29/212 so it wasn't until then that we were actually able to get in and start working on things that needed to be done and repaired. I was still working full time, and was limited on what I could do to help. Jeremi was amazing through all of this and knew that once the house closed, he'd have no time with his job, and with a strict apartment time limit, he quit. It sounds risky I know, but it worked out! The house became his full time job, and it's remarkable what was accomplished.
All April the house was worked on, too many trips to home improvement stores, and hour drives back and forth. The week that we were supposed to start making our official move the worst thing happened. I was at work and got several weird phone calls from family and jeremi. I knew something was up when I saw jeremi walk through the front doors. After frantic phone calls to get coverage for me, we were on our way to UVA hospital because my grandma ester had suffered a massive stroke in her brain stem. The week that followed was a whirlwind. Luckily with my job and still having my two days off for the week to follow, and bereavement leave, I had pretty much the whole week off to deal with the loss, moving, and being with family. The person I'm most appreciative of throughout the whole thing was my little sister meg. She was scheduled to be visiting in late may, but with grandma's passing she was here for almost two weeks. She stayed with us, helped us move, and helped us start to get settled here. I'm excited to say that she's going to be in next week for her long visit, but I'll only see her for part of it because I'll be flying back to ABQ, NM and then to Las Vegas for my 30th birthday....what what?!!?
So that is the short version update. I have so many photos that I've taken through all of this. We have yet to install photoshop back on the computer so real photos will be a bit delayed.
