Rest.

I Shawn is out in Colorado and hopefully in a few days will no longer be in the Army! We're using this time to relax and recoup. And plan. Always always planning. 

We've set a finish date for the house and barring any issues when the water gets turned on its completely attainable. I'll be making a big Lowes run this week to get the last odds and ends. 

The back of the house is painted and ready to go. It's looking great! The bathroom vanity has been installed, pipes  fixed and other than blinds and toilet paper holder is complete! 

The kitchen is last remaining area that needs the most work. The composting toilet needs to be removed, cabinets painted and the last of the floor installed. It's looking so great and I can't wait to see it finished. 

We started our seeds and most have begun to sprout. Wyatt thinks it the neatest thing. 

Sawyer popped her second bottom tooth and has found a love of egg yolks, meat and anything everyone else is eating. She's getting so big and becoming independent. 

Wyatt learned how to cut with a knife (dinner knife) he also hit a growth spurt and got his first fishing rod! 

Shawn culled some of his moms chickens this weekend and Wyatt did great with the whole experience! 

He's such a lover of animals I didn't know how he would do and honestly was a little nervous. He did great and stood by his dad's side the whole time. 

So, in a little excitement we're considering adding in a new animal to our little place. We went down to Blue Seal and one of the employees had his 4 day old bottle goats there. Complete swoon! Wyatt fell in love. So did the rest of us. We knew we wanted goats for a while but were thinking next Spring. It's been a few days and Wyatt is still waking around asking about his baby goats so needless to say we are now looking at fences. 

It is the year of the goat afterall. 

We've been in touch with a few breeders and are specifically looking at Nigerian Dwarfs. We're planning on going out next week to visit the farms and see if anything clicks. 

I can see the finish line.

I So this last week has seen some major progress! Not only with the house but Sawyer popped her first tooth! (Finally!) 

We got the toilet installed, bathroom painted, pipes cut and ready to be moved. The last major part is installing the vanity. 

Wyatt figuring out the light switch doesn't work. 

We started on the first coat of primer for the kitchen cabinets. Primer white looks good! We decided to hire painters to finish the house. Neither of us enjoy painting and it was becoming a big stress with both kids playing in paint. Fortunately close family friends own a painting company! Big thanks to DiVito and Sons! Seriously, what took us days to do took them an hour. Big stress off our shoulders. 

The kids room, Behr Mountain Haze. Seriously gorgeous. 

Play room and Master are both Behr Vermont Cream. 

The kitchen! It's our last big task we have to tackle. We laid the underlayment yesterday and my inlaws installed the tile floor. I cannot thank them enough for the help. Wrangling two kids leaves little time to help and it's definitely a defeating feeling. 

Willa likes to help too. 

Dish came out to install our satellite and that didn't go well. After walking through hip high snow we were told we needed to cut down trees to get signal. Channels went digital here so traditional bunny ears don't work. We're okay with not having TV- don't watch much more than the news and occasional PBS for the kids. Since we don't have a computer we decided to look into streaming devices. 

We took the weekend off and it was a nice needed break. Shawn cooked an amazing Valentines Day dinner with Swordfish, broccoli and mashed Sweets. It's so nice to have access to fresh fish again. I loved Colorado but being landlocked was a bust. 

Shawn passed his polygraph and should start his new job next month. He's flying out to Colorado this weekend to file out of the Army. I'm so proud of him for all his work and landing his dream job. 

Our chickens have been bought and paid for! Next up Narragansett turkeys and ducks. 

Week three.

We're all completely exhausted between driving 1.5 hours each way to the new house, sleeping on air mattresses, living off Dunkin Donuts and the remodel.  Also- if the snow could stop that would be fantastic. 

Our house has been deemed non-deliverable by well, everyone. They all say they can't make it down the driveway, the Lowes guys loaded the fridge in the back of our car! The gas guys refuse to deliver which I do understand but I'm not sure what our heat solution will be for the rest of winter. 

We have most of the house primed and the bathroom has the first coat of paint. We're all ready for running water and a functioning bathroom. Peeing outside is not fun. 

We checked out our local Blue Seal and they are the nicest people! Put in our request for Spring turkeys, no issues. We also come to the hard reality that an outdoor cat is needed. If you know us you're probably laughing at that but it looks like we've lined up a semi nice set of harden mouse killers thanks to my inlaws!