Shower for Baby Auten

At the end of January, Matt and I went home to help throw a baby shower for some dear friends of ours. We were in charge of putting together the activities.

This picture should be a huge indication as to what the shower theme was.......

And what could be more FUN than a skeet shoot, BBQ, bonfire, cake, 

and a cornhole tournament for a baby shower??!!!

I printed the "Wishes for Baby" as an activity for everyone to be a part of.

just a quick video

Matt and his dad set up lanes for the skeet shoot as well as built the bonfires. 

Later in the evening we had a cornhole tournament.

There were so many shotgun shells

My love and I

Time for cake and gifts!!

A Child Training Bible 

Brandon's shorts as a little boy

The parents-to-be: Brandon & Livia

We had a LOT of fun at the shower celebrating the new addition 

and we look forward to meeting baby boy Auten in just a few days!!!! 

Finally!

We have floors!!

Hallelujah!

The journey getting there was unpredictable and took much longer than we had anticipated!!!

(Oh the joys of home ownership, right??!)

After having the majority of the joists and foundation repaired underneath the house (contingent upon closing), we still needed to level the floors in the kitchen and 3 bedrooms in order to install hardwood floors. Matt's friend and dad came down to help start rip up the kitchen floors. There were multiple layers of nasty laminate, a sign (I have no clue why?), and plenty of rotted wood. yuck.

PS- Isn't that yellow medallion flooring so cool? gross.

Once everything was up, we could get started on putting in the floors!

 

 

Needless to say, that's not what happened.

It was very disheartening to get a picture text (see below) from Matt while I was at work with the message that they had to buy supplies to replace 5 joists and new sub-floor due to extensive damage (praise the Lord the home inspection company reimbursed us the cost of our supplies for missing the termite and water damage). Sad day. Only putting us further behind.

So thankful for the guys helping out with our house & one of the nasty old joists

After replacing half of the kitchen floor, it was (finally) time to start putting in the hardwoods! A friend of mine, several years ago, had prayed through our apartment as well as anointed the doorways with oil before we moved in. I wanted to do something similar to ask the Lord to bless our new home.....So, we looked up Bible verses containing the words 'hospitality' and 'home', chose our favorites, and wrote them in between the doorways on the sub-floor. 

Here is one:

The first straight run from the living room to the kitchen   &   The finished hallway

All of the Pepin boys together to finish the bedroom floors 

 

I took some sweet photos of our puppy while the boys worked

We purchased the flooring on July 21st and it was finished on August 25th.

We spent two weeks living in the Airstream.

We have officially been in the house three weeks.

We have had hot water for only two weeks ;)

Our most recent electric bill is out of this world high.

But He is faithful. He has provided.

and the floors are DONE!

Let it Begin!

Matt and I became official homeowners on July 31st!!!!

and the battle against popcorn ceilings began.......
One whole week of sweat, tears, back pain, neck strain, and earning new arm muscles.

After an entire week of intense labor, we finished scraping the living room, dining room, kitchen, hallway, and master bedroom. Our next project is to install hardwood floors throughout the entire house!!