The Haynie Happenings: Where it all began...

So obviously I have been very neglectful in blogging for the past few months but I really do have good cause... Madi is doing well and is growing up and getting into everything. She has figured out how to walk on her own but she refuses simply because if she doesn't have a hand to hold then she knows that no one is following her... She also has started talking quite a bit and is very social. With the addition of 2 new nephews and a new little friend she also has become very interested in babies. She is very sweet when she plays with them but doesn't quite understand why they won't come when she calls them. The biggest news for us is that we finally closed on our house February 19th!!! Yes we own a home and yes we have yet to live in it :-(. This new house has kept us quite busy, hence the lack of blogging.

Now to explain the house situation. Yes we did buy a brand new house and it is wonderful, however we were very grateful to be able to make our house exactly how we wanted it and started the home improvement projects only a mer few hours after we signed the papers! First we pulled up the carpet and linoleum in the front room and kitchen. I didn't want to have to worry about constantly cleaning the front room carpet with a kid, dog, and mud for a yard so I really wanted wood in the front room. We decided that putting the wood throughout the whole main level would really open up the house so we finished that project and continued to the rest of the house. The builder build our house with a bonus room above the garage that they leave completely unfinished. We chose to use that large space as our master bedroom and so we had to add a bathroom and closet and finish the room up. With the upstairs started we carried on down to the basement. We have a full unfinished basement that we finished about half into a tv family room. So as you can tell these aren't the smallest or easiest projects but about 6 weeks later we are finally ready for the final inspections and will hopefully be moving in sometime this week!!! I currently have the before pictures and will post the after ones when I get things cleaned up! I definitely like the after better than the before what do you think??