We're Done!!

Yesterday we had a full day of Dr. appointments down in the cities for Mr. Elliot. We had 2 ultrasounds plus met with his Hematologist and Urologist, and even had a surprise visit with his Nephrologist. We were originally supposed to see his Nephrologist but were called several weeks ago saying she would be out of the office and we had to reschedule for November. This was really disappointing since she makes the call on when Elliot is done with his sodium supplements. While waiting for his urology appointment we saw her walk by and long story short she and the urologist teamed up and saw him at the same time which was awesome!

The results of the tests:

  His kidneys are about the same as they were back in May. They are still dilated, but since they aren't worse and he hasn't had any further infections we can continue to watch and wait. We'll go down in 3 months for a follow up and just keep an eye on them. If he gets any more UTI/Kidney infections he goes back on his medicine and we talk surgery - praying we don't get to that point. The Dr. said in general boys who do out grow hydronephrosis will do so by around 2 or 2.5 years of age. His nephrologist was very pleased that things were stable and he was growing so well that pending the results of his lab draws we will be off his sodium supplements for a month trial period. If after a month his levels are still good we get to be off for good! That is huge, he hates the sodium and we hate giving it to him!!

  His other ultrasound on his blood clot also led to good news. His clot is continuing to get smaller. Because of this we get to be DONE WITH LOVENOX SHOTS!!! You have no idea how happy we are about this. I did a quick bit of calculating and we have stuck a needle in his chubby little legs almost 200 times! 200 little bruises on his legs. It sucks! But we are DONE!!!!!!

3 Years of Love

3 years ago today was such a wonderful day!

I got all dolled up and squeezed into my lace dress 

So I could go meet up with this crazy guy and takes lots of pictures

 And we started our life together, hand in hand,

and side by side.

With the support of our friends and family

We became husband and wife, and our lives will forever be changed, be better, and be filled with love.

Thank you love for 3 wonderful years. I love you more than I can express, can't wait for the next 3, 30, and 60 years with you!

Ding Dong...

Ding Dong The Wicked Witch is Dead....

Can you guess why that song has been stuck in my head today? 

(Please note that I am not calling my son the wicked witch, I just had to laugh when I walked back into E's room this morning and saw this)

 Apparently playing on top of the play mat is sooo yesterday!

In other Elliot News/Pictures

Bath time has become so much fun with him. Ever since he found out that splashing in his tub makes me laugh we play lots of games during bath time. 

Even though he isn't quite crawling he can sure get to where he wants to be. I put him down over by the teddy bear and came back a minute later and he had rolled himself over to the rock n play and was trying to tackle it. Crawling isn't far from our future, and I can't decide how I feel about that. He can get up on his hands and knees and will move either his hands or his legs but hasn't figured out how to do both at the same time!

The best news of the week is that we have finally had some success in Operation: Sleep in the Crib. He now only takes about 20-30 minutes to settle himself down for naps and will sleep for a little while. It is so great to see progress!

New things

I love watching Elliot learn new things. It seems these days there are new things to brag about every day! Some good, some bad. He's learning how to sit by himself, how to grow razor sharp teeth to bite with (ouch!!!) how to play on his stomach without getting mad at the world, how to pull himself over to the wall while I'm changing his diaper so he can scratch the wall and flake paint off in the process, to give bear hugs and kisses. What we've been working on this week is how to sleep in a crib (during naps, I've been entirely too selfish to give up my nights so far - bad mamma). Yikes, I knew it was going to be tough, but this week has just sucked. After so many hours of crying, snuggles, researching new techniques to sleep train, and hoping he isn't going to hate me later in life we've gotten only a few 20 minutes naps out of him. Translation: overly tired baby and stressed out mom. Yesterday was our best nap - a whole 30 minutes!- and I took a picture of him sleeping in his pack n play just so I could remember how peaceful he looked and to keep me moving forward in this frustrating process.

Another new thing he is learning this week is to use a sippy cup. He sort of gave up bottles again so I thought I would pick one up in the store and try it. He loves it! Still not super great at it, but it is really cute to watch him!

I can't wait to see what new things he learns next - like the fake cry he has going on right now... oh joy!

Lately....

I know I've been MIA in the blog world for quite a while. Sorry about that. But here is a quick recap of what life has been like lately.

We're still working on getting settled into the new house. I hadn't taken any pictures because I haven't gotten the house to a point where I like to show it off, but I don't think we'll get there for awhile. So here are a few "as-is" pictures from this morning.

What little boy doesn't need 4 beds in his room? We had him sleep in his rock in play (that's where he is in this picture) because of our nomad status for the first chunk of his life, but now he refuses to sleep laying flat in his crib or pack n play. Any advise on how to transition him to his crib? I'm at a loss. I've tried letting him play with toys until he falls asleep, crying himself to sleep, laying him down while he is asleep - but he wakes up instantly and freaks out. I need to figure something out soon because he is quickly outgrowing the rock n play.

This is what I'm greeted with in the mornings. Reason #5753367 why I love him - He sleeps from 9:30pm - 8:00am and then gives me the best "I missed you and am so excited to see you" smiles when I walk in.

In between getting settled in and working on the never ending to-do list we've enjoyed some good down time as a family

Elliot is enjoying his new big boy highchair and learning to eat rice cereal. He is also working on pushing his bottom two teeth out/leaving a trail of drool behind him.  Sigh he's getting way to big already.

So that's our life in a nutshell - enjoying having our own place, enjoying our summer (lake time this weekend - YEAH!!!!!) and most of all enjoying our little/growing too fast Elliot.

House Progress

It's been awhile since I updated with what we've been up to at the new house. We took a couple of weeks off with all Elliot's health issues, but we're getting back into the swing of things. 

We've gotten the bedrooms just about finished with paint. Now we're ready to start trim. I'm not sure if I've put this angle of the master bedroom up. This shows the living room, then we have our closet, a small linen closet and our bathroom.

Elliot's room. Two walls have the stripes and the other two are just the brown color.

Guest room. 

Before the craziness of life hit Bryce and his friend Dan got the floor in the main living area down. It looks great. While we were stuck in the hospital our carpets and appliances arrived. It was so much fun to come home to a house that felt so much more like a home! We were even able to take our shoes off inside the house for the first time! What a great feeling!!

Now that I have these shiny new appliances it makes me even more excited to get the cupboards whipped into shape. I can't decide if I want to go with dark cupboards to show off the stainless steel, or keep it light to match the woodwork. Thoughts?

A closer look at the floors

It's not going to be too much longer before we can start moving our things in, and we cannot wait!

We're Home!!!!!!!

Well I think the title says it all. We finally got discharged yesterday afternoon, and man were we ready. We had to sit around and wait for his blood thinner medicine do its thing and give us the magic numbers. And yesterday the Xa levels reached .5 which is the lowest number in the therapeutic range but hey its enough to let us get discharged. We found out at 1:00 pm and then had to wit around until 5:00 p.m. for all his medicine to get filled at the pharmacy and the discharge papers to get finished.

While at home we will give his antibiotic through his PICC once a day, sodium supplements twice a day (basically salt water we have to force him to swallow), and inject his Lovenox (blood thinners) twice a day. In addition we get to go to the lab twice a week for blood draws to monitor all his levels to make sure his kidneys are doing their job, So its a lot but if it makes E better it is worth it. We will also do a quick follow up in the cities in a month and then in three months do a full fledged follow up with ultrasounds and meet with the nephrologist and urologist too.

Thank you again for all your prayers and messages and support. It was such a scary and stressful time but we definitely saw God's hand of guidance and protection through it all!

Wednessday Update

I was really hoping that we would be done with these updates by now and all snuggled in back home resting up. Doesn't look like that is the case for a few more days.

Elliot was put on the OR schedule as a fill in again. Meaning we had to stop feeding him at 3:00 am and just wait to see when they call us down. That sucks. Majorly. It is one thing to deal with a crying baby during the day and a whole different ball game when it is 5 in the morning you have barely slept and all your baby wants to do is eat and you can't do a single thing about it. Once morning rolls around life seems a little easier. We were able to get some more sugar water to pacify him and we played with toes and toys and he flirted with more nurses. Good news this morning is that his morning labs show that his infection markers are down to the 20's where they had been well over 200. So we are pretty pumped that this infection is almost all the way out of his little body!!

We got called down to the OR around 1045, did the pre-op thing and he was brought back to the OR around 1130. Bryce and I walked around outside for a little bit and it was the first time I had been outside since Friday when I drove down here. It was so nice to get a breath of fresh air and walk around in the little garden area they have here. The best part were the lilacs lining the paths, beautiful! We came and hung out in the waiting area and finally a little after 1:00 the Dr. came and talked to us. The good news: the PICC went in great on the first try. The bad news: They did a ultrasound to look at the clot while in there and it was a little larger than they would have liked and closer to the main vein to let them leave it alone. So now we are getting the Hematology gurus involved in the equation. We will start him on twice daily shots of blood thinners to help his body break up and dissolve this clot and hopefully decrease his chance of getting another clot that compromises his new PICC. He will be on these shots for 3 months so we get to go find out not only how to shoot medicine into his blood stream but now we add medicine sub-cutaneously!Oh the joys!! He will get his first shot this evening and we have to hang out here until after his Friday morning shot and do some more labs to see if levels are where they should be, then home - theoretically!   It's a good thing that there is a laundry facility in the building as we are here way longer than either of us anticipated. As frustrating as all these setback are we feel more comfortable here getting things checked out than going home now when things are still in the unknown category.

Monday/ Tuesday Update

Sorry I didn't get to update yesterday. It was such an exhausting day that the computer just didn't make a high priority.

Yesterday we had Elliot on the OR board as a fill in so he couldn't eat all day just so he would be ready whenever they could squeeze him in. He did surprisingly well with that. We tried to keep him asleep as much as possible just so he wouldn't be aware of how log it had been since he had eaten. We also kept him hopping with different tests. In the morning we went down to Nuclear Medicine and had a renal scan with Lasiks. We had had this test done before, so it wasn't anything new. In a nutshell they pump him with a low dose radioactive dye and take pictures every couple of seconds to watch how his kidneys process and dump the blood. Thankfully he slept through half of it.  We got back into our room and were told that we were on the OR board for 230 so we had just a few minutes to grab lunch and get ready to go down to pre-op. We got pretty excited and pretty soon 230 came around and we were still in our room. The nurse came in a bit later and said that we got pushed back to 630.  just about left then. That is already over 12 hours for my baby to go on nothing but some sugar water on his pacifier. We got brought down to imaging for his renal ultrasound, and that helped pass a little bit of time until his procedure. Finally we got the ok to be brought down. We spent a few minutes in pre-op and met the doctors and nurses that would be working on him. He had to get a PICC line in. A more permanent port for us to give his antibiotics to him for the next week or so. The urologist also did a quick look with a scope and he had a minor other procedure as well since he was going to be put under. Everything went well. The urologist came and gave us the great news that he is almost positive that he will out grow the hydroneprosis!!! After all the worst case scenarios that were thrown our way we were almost not expecting for the best case to come into reality. We were able to breathe such a sigh of relief. Just do some follow up ultrasounds in a few months but as soon as the infection clears up we are in the clear. We were back in the room by 900 and E was having a rough time. The scope makes it very painful to pee, so he would be resting comfortably and then wake up crying in pain. Thankfully the nurse stayed right on top of the meds to control the pain as best as we could. We had a pretty fitful night sleep. E would sleep best with one of us holding him so as you can imagine not much sleep has had by anyone!

Today, we were told that there was a possibility of getting to come home. He has been fever free for oer 24 hours the infection was going down and so life was looking good. We went to a class of how to administer the iv meds, which is crazy scary. Knowing that you are shooting things right into your sons blood stream next to his heart is more than a little daunting. When we got back from the class we were told that the nurse was concerned with his PICC. His hand was turning a little blue and had puffed up a bit. We got another ultrasound done a little bit ago and found out that there is a clot inside the line. which means that that PICC needs to come out and we need to get scheduled for another surgery to get a replacement one put back in. It doesn't seem likely that it will be today as we are already far into the afternoon so we will be staying put for a little while longer. Even though we were told that today might be a possible discharge day we were anticipating being here at least through Wednesday, but to hear it for sure is a little disappointing. But we are thankful that the clot was found early and that it can be taken care of quickly.

Sunday Update

Hi all, not much to report today. It was our "rest" day before the craziness of tomorrow hits. A quick rundown on today:

• His fever has been down all day and his blood pressures have come back down to the 90's!!
• His infection markers have spiked a bit but they aren't too concerned with this yet as they take 36-48 hours to come down after the infection starts to get better. His sodium levels are still pretty low so he has to take a salt water solution by mouth a couple of times a day.
• We met with his urologist, nephrologist, and core Dr. team to set up 2 scans in the morning and a minor procedure and scope for the late afternoon. These will be the key points in telling us what we will be doing, whether it is surgery now or still a watch and wait situation.
• His IV stopped working in his scalp so they took that out and started one in his arm. Taking the tape off his head was the worst thing of the day. I have rarely heard him cry so hard. He just looked at me with his tears streaming from his eyes with a look that asked why I was letting them do this to him. Broke my heart. His catheter also came out and so he had to go through that whole ordeal again. How this little man is still letting nurses near him is beyond me!
• Thankfully after that we had an hour stretch of some really happiness. We talked and made faces at each other. He played with his toes and whacked Bryce in the face with the protective cover over his arm iv - which he found hilarious!
• Our hospital room is starting to feel like our home away from home. We went grocery shopping and got food and snacks for the next week or so. I walk around to the lounges in my slippers grabbing my cup of coffee, for a hospital it really is a nice place.
• Last night was another terrible sleep night, we are praying hard for a good nights sleep to make it through tomorrow. It will be a tough day for all of us.

Elliot's Saturday Update

Well it's been another fabulous day here in our hospital room. Last night right after I wrote that he fell into a deep sleep he woke up and we didn't have much sleeping past that. Between the fussiness from being uncomfortable and the vitals checks there was a whole lot of disruptions. The only thing that seemed to settle him down was a bottle, which is weird since he swore off bottles a couple of weeks ago. That was hard on me, to not be the one he turns to for comfort and nourishment but I suppose I had to get used to that eventually. Today he has gone back and forth between me and the bottle so thankfully he hasn't totally given up nursing. When we woke up or rather gave up sleeping he was alert and happy. It was so wonderful to see a little bit of his old self peeking through.

We got to meet several of the Drs that will be helping us along the way, and we feel so happy to be here. These doctors are knowledgeable and are treating everything seriously but don't seem to be jumping the gun to fix everything at once until we know what is the core problem. Today and tomorrow are days to set the stage for Monday when we finally start running the tests to help determine the course of action. They want to make sure the infection is under control and that his kidneys start acting at least semi normal. This will allow us to get a better picture of where things are sitting.

Elliot throughout the day has had some good periods of time where he will smile at us, but as the day went on he got fussier and fussier. He now has a catheter in to try to relieve the pressure in his urinary tract and we're hopeful that will alleviate some discomfort and allow him to rest a bit more tonight.

Thanks again for all your thoughts, prayers, messages and just being a blessing in our lives!

Elliot's Hospital Stay

Hi folks, I know there are a lot of people that know a little bit about whats going on with E right now so I thought I would take a moment to write out the full story so you can stay up to speed.

We've been keeping a close eye on Elliot's hydronephrosis (dilated kidneys) since he was born and have done numerous tests, scans and doctors appointments to keep things in check. At the beginning of April we had a few tests done and he was put on antibiotics to ward off UTI's. He started reacting to that right away, just in irritability and diarrhea. Soon he started throwing up frequently. Talking to the doctor we stopped the antibiotics to see if that was causing it, and things just got worse. We went to a couple of apts and tried some other meds to try to settle things down and nothing worked. Yesterday I took E to go to the pediatrician because he wasn't eating anymore and anything he did he threw right back up. He had no energy, had sky high blood pressure, and lacked the cute pink baby look. After a few minutes with the pediatrician we were sent up to the hospital to get an iv in for fluids.  Unfortunately he was so dehydrated they couldn't find a vein so he had to have the iv in his scalp which is just awful to look at! We spent a few hours at our local hospital before being transferred to a larger hospital about an hour away. E and I got our first ambulance ride together! He did great, I got motion sick apparently I don't do well riding sideways in a vehicle. Anyways we spent some time in the ER there and did all the lab work repeating our story for the 50th time and the ever fun catheter.

 After all that was done we got settled into a room in the hospital and continued to give him fluids, antibiotics and probiotcs to attempt to get all his electrolyte levels in check, and the infection under control. He conked out thankfully and slept through the whole night which was such a blessing to us as he hasn't slept for more than an hour stretch in a while, so unlike my champion sleeper! In the morning we had a 2 hour renal ultrasound and Doppler which just ticked him off and he went downhill a bit, his fever spiked and blood pressure went into the 130's (if that was in an adult it would be like comparable to in the 200's - very dangerous!) With all that is going on in his little body, blood pressure, uti, fevers... the doctors there decided that it would be best to be at a children's hospital where we can have access to a team of pediatric specialists - cardiologist, urologist and nephrologist. So we got to make the trek in another 4 hour ambulance ride to a large children's hospital. E has been furious with us ever since, spiking his fever and blood pressure again. Not good. He had many doses of Tylenol and some morphine to keep his pain in check and he was having none of it. He just passed out in a deep sleep a few minutes ago, and we're hoping this time it is for quite some time, giving the medications time to work and rest to his body.

While we are down here, ours and the doctors goal is to put the pieces of the puzzle together. We are hoping to get a clear picture of what is causing all the symptoms so we can treat his condition as a whole and not just piece meal a diagnosis together.

You prayers are coveted. He is a tough little boy but my heart isn't that tough. It is awful to listen to him scream and not be able to do anything for him. God is in control, we know that and are trying to keep that in the forefront of our minds. Pray for wisdom for the doctors to know how to treat his issues. Pray for strength for little E as he has been through a lot in the last few days and weeks.

Thank you all!

Baby Love

People sometimes ask what my favorite part of being a mom is. It took me a while to pick one because, well this babe is so dear to me there are many wonderful things. But I think I may have decided on one, for the moment at least, until the next heart melting thing he does. When I nurse him he will often stop and look up at me, when he sees me looking back at him he grins, you know the kind where it starts with his mouth then the eyes light up and pretty soon his whole body is wiggling from pure excitement. He is so happy to see me and that I came to hang out with him while he's eating that he cant even contain his joy. Now if that doesn't melt your heart I don't know what will.

House Progress

Things are moving along at the new house. And this next two weeks will see things go together at warp speed (at least that's the hope!!!)

Since I last showed some pictures, we've finished ripping out all the drywall in the upstairs bedrooms, re-hung the drywall, got it all taped and Charlie has been a wizard at getting all the mud on the walls. We'll finish texturing the last bedroom in the next day or two. We've gotten one room primed, so it is almost painting time and time to start seeing these bedrooms coming together!

In the basement we've ripped out all the disgusting carpet. Don't worry Rachel, we left your bowling alley carpet in that room for now as it seemed to be in good condition. The previous owners had two dogs and two cats and by the looks and smell of the floors, they weren't very good at letting them out to do their business! The house is finally starting to smell decent, love it!!

This is the mural wall that had mold on it. Everything has been taken off and the walls and insulation disinfected and it now airing out.

Upstairs we got the main living area painted. It's hard to get a good picture of the color, but it is a fun gray color. Thank you to our families who came out in force one Saturday to knock off a huge list of to-dos! It was amazing how fast things got done with that many people. We are blessed to have such great families.

In the next two weeks we are going to have to:

• Finish texturing
• Finish priming the bedrooms
• Another coat of paint on all the ceilings
• Paint the bedrooms
• Install hardwood laminate floors in the main living area
• Prep bedrooms for carpet install
• Get doors hung
• Install trim
• Decide on light fixtures
• Build pantry in back hall
• Get our new appliances installed
• The list keeps going on and on but we're nearing the end
• MOVE IN!!!!!!!! ok that probably wont be in two weeks, but it is getting closer

Kidneys Strike Again

Last Monday I took Elliot to meet a new urologist here in our new town. I had thought that this appointment was just going to be a meet the new dr. and set up tests in a neighboring larger town as our previous urologist had wanted. Nope that wasn't to be. Before he even came in the room to meet us he had an ultrasound set up for us that day and was prepared for action based on E's medical history. He threw so much new information at me that day I felt like I was on emotional roller coaster. He would go from saying that his kidneys and urinary tract were so bad that he will lose them within a few years, to saying I don't want you to worry we have time on our side and don't want to rush into anything. Seriously?!?! My child could lose his kidneys and you don't want me to worry? We went to the ultrasound where E totally charmed the sonographer and tried to help her out by moving the wand where he wanted it. Back in the dr's office we learned that things have gotten worse in the two months that we had a scan done. He ordered E to be on antibiotics for the foreseeable future (since he is at a high risk for a UTI with his urinary complications) and said that he is going under as soon as possible. After going back and forth to the clinic to meet with the urologist and a pediatrician a couple of times we were cleared for the OR.

Monday this week the three of us were at the hospital bright and early and about to send my baby into a strangers arms to be put under, scary like none other! The test he was having done was very similar to what he had done previously but he has to lay perfectly still so that is why they put him under, there was no cutting or surgery type thing involved. They inject a radioactive dye into an iv and take pictures several seconds apart to watch his body process the dye. The test didn't tell them all the wanted to know. We still didn't know where the blockage was or what it is. So we had to go back in yesterday to have round two of anesthesia. This time they put a scope up him to take a closer look at the urethra and the ureters to hopefully determine where the problem was. The Dr. was thinking that the blockage was in the urethra and that it could be valves (flaps of tissue that look like sails that would obstruct the flow). If that was the case he could cauterize them and get rid of them right there. Turns out they looked beautiful, no problems there. When he got to the ureters he couldn't get the scope up them they were so restricted. So this is sort of good news. We at least know where the blockage is happening. We know that it is not problems with the kidneys, just the pipes leading from the kidneys which is causing extra fluid to hang out in the kidney. This issue is also much more likely to correct itself, so we may not have to have surgery after all! We will have a follow up scan next week, and then monitor the situation monthly with ultrasounds. If things do not get worse, we can just let it be.

Elliot did wonderful throughout all of this craziness. He is such a trooper. He had no issues with the anesthesia. Made all the nurses fall in love with him with his gorgeous smiles. He had to have a breathing tube both times which made his throat pretty sore. That was difficult to listen to! Yesterday's procedure with the scope made it painful for him to go to the bathroom so he would moan/whine every time he had to pee.That was the worst part. But he is starting to be my happy smiley baby again this morning.

So that is where things sit for now. We are just hoping his body will grow out of this and will not get worse    and warrant surgery. Whew, I'm ready for a nap after all this stress!!

Best Buds

Elliot with his buds

Hanging out with Dad

 Daddy's Mini Me

I had so much fun dressing E to match Bryce to surprise him, down to socks that look like B's shoes!

Bentley likes to watch over Elliot, especially when E is on the floor. 

Elliot and his cousins helping Grandpa H. celebrate his birthday 

The House Tour

I've been asked by a few people to show some pictures of the new house, and am finally getting around to it.  

Warning: Picture overload!!! If you really don't care I would stop now because this is long!

For those of you who don't know,  last month we said goodbye to our ND house. Our first home as a family, the house we brought Elliot home to, the house we had so much fun doing projects on

And said hello to our new home in MN. We have had our eyes on this house for a long time. We knew it would need more than a little bit of loving to get it livable, but we loved the location and the space we would get, not to mention the low price because of the condition it is in. 

Hope you enjoy these before pictures, can't wait to show you the afters in a month or two!

Here is the view you get when you walk into the front door:

To the left is Elliot's room, guest room, linen closet, and a full bath.

Looking to the right a bit from the front door you see the main living area with the kitchen/dining/family room. The master bedroom/bath is the door on the right

 Elliot's room. He has the best views with a west facing window you get to see the sun setting over a small pond.

Standing in the kitchen looking down the back hall towards the garage. The whole desk area is out and will be replaced with a nice pantry.

 Looking towards the front of the house. I love how bright it is in there with the large windows.

Kitchen, obviously. New appliances will be come in a little over a month so we need to get the new floors in and painting done so we'll be ready for them to be installed.

 The basement wont receive much attention right away. We'll focus on getting the upstairs ready so we can move in and then tackle the downstairs when we feel like starting up again.

Family room 

 There's a second living room adjacent to the first along with two unfinished rooms in the back.

What's that great masterpiece on the back wall you ask? Well let me show you the piece de resistance:

Yes, we have our own huge hunting mural, oh how lucky am I?!?

You can see there is mold down here, so all the drywall will get ripped out and the walls cleaned before we move in.

 There are two more bedrooms in the basement, but without closets. Check out that awesome carpet!  Makes me feel like I am in a bowling alley.

The view from the back deck. 

The day we bought the house.

Starting the demolition:

 Phase 1 is ripping out all the walls in the three bedrooms upstairs and putting up new drywall. 

This is only the beginning of our fun adventures on this new house. I'll try to share some more pictures as we keep on.