Voilà!

Well, we met our goal of finishing our remodel before my parents came to visit at the end of April! We're still waiting on some trim and new interior doors, but everything is functional. We got new carpet in a few weeks ago so our house now actually feels like a home, not just a construction site! Everything turned out great, we're really happy with everything. We started the whole project last October so we're happy to be mostly done and enjoy our new space. We will soon have all of our pictures from the remodel, start to finish, on our picture website which is linked at the top right of this page.

We had a great time with my parents for a week at the end of April. Unfortunately the weather wasn't very cooperative, but it didn't rain much, just cloudy, so we can't complain too much. We had a great time down at Pike Place Market, we took a trip to Snoqualmie Falls for a GREAT breakfast, had some fun at home grilling out and they were able to see a lot of their old friends. It was a lot of fun having them out to visit! We have a few more pictures of their visit on our picture website as well.

Catching Up

Whoa time has flown by. I've been meaning to get a new post up for the last couple months now but never seemed to find the time. We went to Burnsville for Christmas this year and had a lot of fun. Katie and Renee and their families were all home, it was great to see everyone! We were also able to spent a few days in Grand Forks with Katie's family. Not too long after we got back Katie and I had our 1 year wedding anniversary. We're going to be doing a lot of traveling this year, so we decided to stay close to home. We spend the afternoon and night in a nice hotel downtown and went out for a nice dinner. It was great to get away from working on the house for a bit and truly relax! We lucked out with the weather and the sun graced us with its presence for the afternoon. The house is coming along great. We have begun remodeling the master bathroom and closet. We pretty much gutted it completely, took out the inside walls and re-framed a new wall and a new doorway. We put a schedule together to make sure we kept track of everything and so far we're two weeks ahead of schedule! We hope to be done by mid-April. Here are some pictures from the last couple months.

Mt. Rainier from our hotel room

A view of the sound, again from the hotel room. The sun was so nice!

Ripping apart the bathroom

Here's the new door to the bathroom. Katie and I had a fun evening putting together the new closet wall

Finished pocket door

New bathroom all framed in. The sinks will be on the left just this side of the small wall. The shower is just beyond the small wall, and the toilet will be in the far right corner.