or, how the view in my house changed in the span of four weeks.

from this

to this

and now this

(my office)

(mckennas new color and new fan in her new room)

this whole experience has been pretty painless. we surprise everyone when they ask us “so hows the remodel going?” and we actually say “GREAT!” the company we have worked with is Upright Contractors, and they arent asking me to do this, but if you are in the surrounding areas of orange county and you are looking to add space to your house-these are the guys to call. every single seperate contractor they sent to our house from prep to carpentry to electricity was totally cool, very accomodating, and sensitive to the fact that i had four kids running around. one of the carpenters even helped us when one of our other pieces of furniture broke. went and got supplies and fixed it for us. they showed up when they said they would, they cleaned up every day before they left, and they have finished ahead of schedule.

we are SO HAPPY with the house now. we still have to add floors and then we get to do my favorite part-decorate.

but first the floors. we are getting all new floors throughout the house. our carpet was just………well…….lets just say beyond repair. our dear darling anna was quite the scientist in her 2nd and 3rd years of life. everything from paint, stazon ink, and red gatorade has been spread into the fibers of our front room carpet. we wont miss it.

because our house is tiny as it is (1375 sq ft)-and my scrapbook stuff and office work area took up the front room of our house, we are now going to have so much more living space. the entire downtairs will now be just a big place to hang out and relax when people come over. and to help seperate the limbs and noggins in our house from bumping up against each other so much.

and for me to have my office space upstairs, out of sight from anyone who should happen to come to the front door is such a lucky thing. i feel so lucky.

and for sweet kenna to get her own room, and sweet anna to be able to sleep in her room again. (for the past six months, anna has slept on the floor of the boys room to give mckenna the space she needs) if mckenna has to share with anna, she (mckenna) cant get to sleep and ends up keeping everyone up. one of her little quirks that we deal with is how hard it is for her to sleep. so this is going to make it more comfortable for all of the kids i think.

and the boys, they pretend to feel a littel jipped, but come on, we all know they would come crying to mommy the first night they had to sleep alone.

and i seriously dig that about them.