Preparing to move

For those of you who don't know, we are going to be moving in the next couple weeks. We are buying the "boyhood home of Wesley T. Miller," as Wes likes to call it. Kandy is going to buy our house so we're doing a house swap. Needless to say, this pending move has kept us very busy. We have been spending most of our spare time working on the new house. Wes has spent nearly every evening and weekend at the house for the past couple weeks. We have stripped wallpaper, refinished the floors and painted all the bedrooms, painted the small half bathroom downstairs and are now in the process of tiling that room and the kitchen. The dining room has also been stripped of wallpaper, but we porbably won't paint in there until after we move in. And by "we" I don't just mean Wes and myself, we have had LOTS of help from friends and family - including one day where several of the Miller family cousins swooped in and worked furiously. Thanks to everyone who has helped!

Finn has spent a lot of time in his new play yard (or crate, as cousin Corinne liked to call it) in the middle of different rooms as we paint (very low odor) and clean. He has not been overly enthusiastic about it though. When he is there with us we get most of our work done when he is napping and then have to take turns hanging out with him while the other works.

Our goal is to move Thanksgiving weekend and then have a housewarming/Finn's birthday party the following weekend. Sound a bit crazy?

I didn't have my camera for our first big workday so I don't have any "before" pictures to post of the house. Here are some in progress pics.

Wes touching up the paint in our room.

Finn peeping out the window in his room.

Here he is playing in his play yard in the bathroom.

The spare room.

The tile we chose for the half bath.