Getting close

Oh. my. goodness.  

Doors, sidelights, and window installed

Drywalled

Finisher completed mudding and it dried

Painters came and finished

Carpet comes tomorrow!  Woo too!!

Saturday, Kyle came to help install a new water softener that Doug bought a few days ago.  Glad Chad and Dustin were here when we ran into a few issues.  We have soft water!  Our dishes will look so much better.

When Doug found our certificate for a free stay in a Hilton hotel Saturday afternoon, we dropped everything and packed our bags!  I was so happy to have clean floors to walk on for one night.

When we were going to bed, Ethan asked last night if we could stay in this hotel for 3 days until our house is clean. The next morning, Syd said she "hates our new house." Made me a little sad. I guess I'm not the only one hating living in a renovation.  So, I went home and dropped Doug and the kids at church as I'm still under the weather and so is Lyla.  I cleaned the floors.  It took a LONG time with all that nastiness, but I did it.  This was the first time my bare feet touched these floors.  Felt good!

A few days later, Lyla appeared to be feeling better.  It's great to see her alert again with open eyes!

Friday night we had our good friends, the Nelsons, over for dinner and games.  We set the game up…and we chatted the rest of the night until they woke up their boys and went home.  Haha.  Good times.

Ethan is loving holding his baby sister.  He's so gentle and sweet with her.

And she adores him.  Many times when I carry her into the room where he's playing, she starts smiling and kicking her feet.