Update on House

It has been a CRAZY last week or so with the house situation! We are due to close on both houses on Wednesday the 11th. Terminix decided to come early last week to do the clearance inspection. They determined that the storage space under the house that Kris built was not able to be inspected properly, so they would not grant 100% clearance on the house. Basically they said they would only 100% guarantee everything including the downstairs office--just not the storage space connected to the office. The kicker for us was that they HAD been guaranteeing it for the last 4 years with no issues!! Crazy! What did this mean for us??? It meant we were in a panic for a couple of days until it was finally determined that we had two options--the buyers could decide that they were okay with everything but the storage space being guaranteed against termite damage and get $500 from us OR Kris could rip out the storage area and make it like it was never there so that the entire house would be guaranteed. They chose the latter. So, instead of going home with the kids and I to my parents this past weekend, Kris was stuck here to fix the downstairs.

If you don't know about our downstairs, about 4 years ago when Kris realized that he would lose his office space because we were having our first child, he got creative and enclosed a section of our crawl space and made himself an office with a section of storage. It is a really neat space--something you wouldn't see much of around here and something that probably really helped us sell our house. Here are some pictures:

Back of the house--Kris put the windows in that are next to the door.

One view of the office. These are the oak bookshelves he was making when he just about cut the top of one of his thumbs off with a compound miter saw when I was 8 1/2 months pregnant with Hannah. I was hysterical. There was blood everywhere!!!

Here are the pictures of the demolition the other night. My brother, Jeff, came over and basically tore most of the storage space out so Kris wouldn't have quite so much to do by himself over the weekend. He was a HUGE help! Thank you, Jeff!

Here you can see the one wall completely down and most of the floor pulled up. This storage area was nice because there was a lot of shelving to keep things on.

This is a picture after Kris enclosed where the storage used to be.

I just have to say that I think my husband can do just about anything he puts his mind to and this is absolutely something that I LOVE about him! He has really been my rock the last few weeks while things have been so crazy stressful with all the house stuff. He amazes me with all the things that he can juggle (being a dad/husband, church work, Life Group stuff, work at Alltel, MBA classes, and all the things that come along with buying/selling a house) and do such a great job at them all. He is one of a kind!!!

I guess I have to throw in a couple of pictures of the kids. Lincoln and Hannah played in the sandbox while the demolition was going on. This is Lincoln about to eat sand.

And here he is actually eating it. He made the awfulest face--but did it again.