We Survived...Well, Kind Of

Unfortunately, I'm not writing about tax season here (although, it's done, finally). I'm writing about our first storm in our new house.

Dave and I have been looking forward to our first spring storm here. We were looking forward to sitting on the deck and watching it roll in. We wanted to watch the lightning through our large living room windows. And we wanted to see how the house held up. Well, last night, we finally got to experience our first spring storm.


We had hail.

Lots and lots of rain.


And crazy winds.

It was quite a scene to watch. The thunder and lightning was constant for several hours.

Our house held up quite well - at least that's what we thought last night. We came home today to a large puddle on our floor.

As you can guess, we are not happy. Our four season room ceiling has several wet spots; the floor is slightly warped in one place and there was water directly below in the basement. So much for enjoying the first spring thunderstorm. We'll be talking to our builder on Monday and hopefully he'll be out here immediately to fix all problems (well, not hopefully, he will be out here or he will deal with me and I'm not happy).

We're Still Here!

We're still here! As you can tell posting on this blog has been completely abandoned lately. Things have been super crazy in our lives with tax season and house projects piling up.

Luckily, the end of tax season is in sight. Dave is especially happy about this as he runs the house while I'm working endless hours. I think he's as ready as I am for a break. This tax season has been unusually tough as we are frantically trying to finish up the major house projects.

Dave is making a huge dent in our house projects. He finished sanding all of the trim (this picture only shows a portion of it).

And he has begun the staining process.

In his spare time (ha), he also has begun laying out the tile in the bathroom upstairs. He also ordered the cabinet for the room and we only have countertop and fixtures left to choose.

My dad has been busy here as well. He finished laying all of the hardwood! We now have wood on all of our stairs.

My dad also installed our remaining doors and doorknobs. I never realized how great doorknobs were until I had them on every door. It's the little things, I guess.

So, yeah, we're still here and we are still making process. Only 11 more days until sanity is restored.