Sunday, February 1, 2009

CHRISTMAS DAY

We have been out of our house for awhile I wasn't able to post the Christmas pictures up. I had made the kids their PJ's and it was fun. The kids loved it and it was a nice time with all that was going on.
Here are some of the Christmas Pictures that morning. Family Gift was the "Guitar Hero Bank set" Damn wanted more Dinosaurs, Mindi wasn't more pillows and a mirror for her room, and Devon his skate board was what he really wanted. They each got a new Wii game and we exchanged names from our own family and bought each person something. It was a lot of fun. They said it was the "Best Christmas Ever" Hey.

Our House Update


BEFORE PICTURES OF THE
KITCHEN





During Construction this was our Kitchen and granite corner that was broken


Our new Granite Counter top

We have moved into our home a week ago now. We had to have a new color of granite picked out due to the batch of Vientien Golds being to "Pink" when it is normally a cream color with maroon in it. So Ben went down to the Design Center and picked out a gray, black color that looks great next to our stainless steel appliances. It looks like a whole different kitchen now. When they were installing it they were two inches short when they cut the slab so they had to do it again and was installed last Monday. On top of that every piece of furniture down stairs came off the









EACH OF THESE PIECES ARE BROKEN AND RUINED

moving truck and into our house BROKEN!!!! Yes every piece of furniture in which was bran new and hard to find, due from purchasing it in California or one of a kind and looked perfect in our home. Now its just stuff.....We are in the process of have the insurance come this week and look over the damages and well as what the out come will be. Lets just say that its a heavy price to pay back. On top of that the tile they redid looks so bad that you don't want anyone to come over anymore, grout lines are thick to thin any piece of tile you step on sounds hollow. Our banister to our stairs are still not fixed and will have to all be done sense it was hand stained. You can't do one and not match the other. We will be looking over that this week as well. I thought in back of my mind that having it all done would actually be better then the first time but I had to high of hopes that it keeps getting worse then better for us. I was able to get my car repaired recently so that doesn't look PATCHED back together. Although when they looked under the hood there was a lot more damage then we thought looking at it from the outside. We were with out two cars for almost two weeks. We can't even put pictures or decor back together unknowing what is going to happen and why sense we have to furniture in any of the rooms anymore. We still are in the process to see if our new TV will even work sense they stored it in the Office where there is 6 inches of dust. Just do it right the first time. It has not been a Dream come true in purchasing a home that you thought you would be in love with. I am realizing that there are times when you don't even care and want things to be simple and looking nice. Our home dose not look like that right now. The good part is that the kids appreciate their things and their rooms a lot more knowing that they didn't have them for 3 weeks. We want to thank our friends the Underhills for taking us in when we weren't sure where we were going to go. They have been the best. Thank you