Day 2

It's been 4 days since we closed on our new house and things are starting to get finished. Yesterday my friend Charlie and I were able to finally finish installing the garage door openers. We started installing them on Saturday, didn't expect it to take this long. Turns out that installing garage door openers, while not extremely difficult, is pretty entailed and takes some time. Then once we finally had them all secured in place we had to wire the opener buttons and the safety sensors on the doors which took some time. Even after all of that there is still one of the buttons that doesn't work so I'll have to get a new wall button to replace the existing one.

We also spent a long time painting yesterday. Katie's brother, Leif, was at the house all day while we were at work and painted the entire kitchen, two coats of a very deep red, it looks great. (Thanks Leif!) We also got a one coat of paint in the dining room, bathroom and office. Tonight we're going to do second coats in the bedroom and office, and the bathroom and dining room if needed. Things are starting to come together. Don't worry there will be pictures of all of this.

We got the kitchen operational yesterday after Leif finished painting it. The stove and refrigerator are plugged back in and are working, which is great. That means that we can cook the frozen pizzas that Emily bought for us and we don't have to use the three-season porch as a refrigerator/freezer anymore.

I am still amazed at how many people want to help us. Katie's sister, Emily, has been over every day since we closed helping us clean and paint, so have my good friends Alex and Charlie. Katie and I both are amazed every day when we think of all that God has given to us and what a wonderful place we are at in life right now. It's been great to have everyone over helping, while it's a lot of work it's still a lot of fun.

Well, that's all for now. I think I'm going to enjoy this whole blogging thing.

-Phil