Happy Homeowner

Its official.. I now own a house and I'm completely in love with it.

I went to settlement on Friday and about an hour later I was in my new house, celebrating and getting to work. This house was a foreclosure, so it had nothing.. literally. No water, no furnace/ac, no appliances, nada. I was blessed enough that my brother, Andy, is a AC/Heat man and was available to get in there to begin installing the AC/furnace that night.

My dad :)

Day One: Even through the snow, I had about 5 people come over to help getting to work with some major things that needed to be done. Andy continued to work on the furnace/ac, I had a friend doing some electrical work and re-wiring a lot of things throughout the house, while two other friends and myself ripped up all the carpet, tack strips, nails and staples. Now that was a tiring tedious job.. took us about 5 hours to get it all done. We worked through the cold, thankfully my parents brought over a Propane Heater so it wasn't unbearable inside, lol. Andy stayed through most of the evening and was diligent about getting some heat pumping through the house. My brother is remarkable, I don't know any other ac/heat person that would have accomplished all that he did in that short amount of time. End of day one and we had HEAT :)

After pulling up carpet.. tons of staples to remove

This was our source of heat.. thank goodness for it!

Rich busy fixing the wiring of the house

No running water = no bathroom.. so here was our make-shift potty lol

End of the day... ready to GO. I'm sitting in the sink b/c there was nowhere to sit, haha

Ok, and now I was just a little bored and delirious...

My momma aka Renovation Supervisor ;)

Day Two: Started off the morning helping my dad shovel snow, which is always fun.. not. Then we adventured to my new favorite store - Lowes. lol. We got a lot of supplies we needed and I bought all my paint. After grabbing some grub, we went to my house and I learned a new trade.. I started mudding holes in the wall, putting wood-filler in the doorways, and painted most of the corners of the house. A friend of the family, Kenny, got straight to work and knocked out the wall some more that is between the kitchen and living room. It looks GREAT. He then pulled up all the baseboards, and linoleum around the house. The plumber came out and turned my water on and got it all working!! Jose and Dylan stopped in on their way home from walmart and brought me hand soap, a dust pan and a toilet seat, haha. I know, random items, but all were gravely needed since we now had running water. Well the dust pan was needed to clean up all the piles that were accumulating, Gotta keep the house clean even though we're in demolition mode lol.

Wonderful source of heat <3

Bye-Bye Wall

My fully functioning potty =D

All in all, it was a very productive weekend and I am deeply thankful and grateful that I have so much love and so many people that are willing to help.

*Miss Complicated