Life on Sesame Street: Welcome home!

So we're finally getting settled in despite our busy schedules. Work has been a little slow on the house as Kari has been working long hours getting ready for and during the holiday rush. I've been logging a lot of miles preparing for my first marathon in February which has kept me from my manly duty of fixing things.

Most of the house has been unpacked finally. The part not in the "most" is the office, which kind of looks like we're having a garage sale. We still need to do some paint touch-up and some other small projects — which I get to do next week while I'm off of work for Christmas break. We also need to get some decorations up on the walls, etc. as well.

We have two big projects that we're looking at tackling after the first of the year. The first one is to replace the broken, half-tinted back patio doors (no reason to tint patio doors) with some nice French doors. The other is a complete remodel of the master bath. It's called the master because it's attached to the master bedroom but there is nothing masterful about it! It's small, has green and gold marble slabs in the shower with gross green tile (and some of my handy patchwork white tile around the drain), a shower head pipe that points upward and a handle that looks suspiciously like a pair of rusty vice grips. Add in a few dozen inexplicable holes in the wall, vinyl flooring, a door with a hole from a dead bolt and a second door just for good measure. So yeah, we need to address that bathroom ASAP!

Anyways, I'm including before pictures, some during pictures and some pseudo-after pictures for now. We'll post more after pictures as rooms get completely finished.

UPDATE: We're having some issues getting photos off of our camera, so for now you get the before pics only that we have on the computer already.

Front of house and our awesome backyard and pool