Today's the day!! We are finally to a point where we can move stuff in! It's been a very long, but rewarding, 4 months. Friends came by this morning ready to help us with the heavy lifting. We were able to get the couch, front loaders, bed, safe, dressers, etc. over so we can finally have a warm place to sleep!

Tonight we went hunting - not for deer - but for a REAL LIVE Christmas Tree! And it had to happen tonight - because tonight is the last night Keil and I will be together until next Sunday! So the hunt was on. First we went to Bomgaars. They had some cute trees until we realized that most of them had been PAINTED! Really!?! The only one that hadn't been painted had lost it's top...somewhere. LOL.

So we ended up finding a lot that was run on the "Honor System". Only in Small Town USA - I tell ya. So we picked out a cute little tree, took our pictures with it, stuffed it into the back of the Mazda, wrote our check and dropped it in locked mailbox, and then took our Christmas Tree Adventure Selfie :)

Got it home! Now to get it watered and decorated! But first.... what do you think of our new Christmas PJ's? :)

This weekend my parents came up to help with more of our projects so we can get some things moved in before Christmas. We focused on the baseboards, trim, cleaning, painting the kitchen, cleaning out the wood stove, fixing the chimney for the wood stove, and then some odds & ends. It was a LOT of work - but we got TONS done! We were so grateful for all the help!!! I am adding captions to some of these photos so you will know what's going on in them :).