Kim Mee Zimmer - Day 2

Hello my friends! It's getting late...and our nights are short!

First things first, Kimmee is doing great! She's a very healthy, alert, and curious little girl. She's very strong for her age, crawls everywhere and can pull herself up to a standing position. Very impressive! Her fine baby hair is falling out with the new thicker hair hidden underneath (Jade had the same thing!)

It was such a blessing to get her in time for Christmas! It completely changed our holiday plans, but in a good way! We feel special and complete now that she is here with us...

Last night was a bit rough on her. She cried a sad cry -- you could tell that she missed the familiar. Today was a new day, though! She has completely latched onto both Kathy and Jade. It's a beautiful sight! Jade is EATING it UP! When she is in their arms, she is quiet as can be. Kaleb and I....well, we're just a couple of goofballs to her! Kaleb, surprisingly is very resilient. If Kimmie doesn't come to him, he just waits for the next time, or the next, or the next. You can see in the pics that when she does sit with him, he's just glowing!!

She's hot and cold with me right now. I think her strong attachment to her foster mom makes her more content with being held by a female. This is just pure conjecture. It could be the strange way that my hair grows out of my chin! I'm patient though, and am just wanting her to be happy for the now. She'll warm up to me, just like Kathy eventually did! :-)





Today was a low-key day. We hung around the house, ate, played, and slept. Kim did great last night, sleeping from 9pm until 5am, waking up once for a mid-night feeding. We moved our mattress to the floor and are letting her sleep with us since this is the Korean way. No sense in forcing her into a crib just yet. The kids insist on camping out on our floor too! It's family style here at the Zimmer house! Come on over, bring your sleeping bag!




Kaleb is so happy about finally being a big brother! This smile is so genuine in this pic!














Our tired world traveler.










Sisters for life!

You can't see it here, but she has a beautiful smile and coo....her whole face lights up and lets you know when she's happy! I'll work on capturing a better pic with her smile!








The Zimmer kids!











We only have 2 more days left at home before we head up to Breck! Then we'll be skiing and hitting the slopes hard. But we'll probably only stay out for 3-4 hours a day. The rest of the time we'll be swimming and hanging out at the lodge. We haven't "tested the waters" yet with Miss Kim, but we hear that she loves to play in the water....she's going to fit RIGHT in with this crew!




From the words of Kaleb's favorite rock star: Hannah Montana
Good night everybody!!

SHE'S HERE! :-)

Friends and family, let me introduce you to miss Kim Mee Zimmer!!!
















Two years of anticipation and our "gotcha" day has arrived! In the adoption circle, the day that you receive your baby is known as your "gotcha" day. Our family will always celebrate the anniversary of December 18th as the day we became a party of FIVE!

Okay, first things first. I felt like at any moment today I was going to throw up! I could not contain my excitement. I called several friends and family members and talked my co-workers ears off because I just could not bottle up my excitement anymore!

Kimmee traveled from Inchon, Korea (near Seoul) to Hong Kong, then to Tokyo, then to Los Angeles, then to DIA. What a trooper! We think she traveled for about 24 hours.

When we got to DIA, my number one task was to get past the security screening so that I could meet my daughter at the gate! A very lovely and understanding ticket agent for Frontier made this happen for us! She found Kimmee on the flight and generated boarding passes for us so that we could make it into the terminal.


Of course I TOTALLY forgot that I was carrying my Spiderco pocket knife that I ALWAYS carry and had to make a mad DASH to our friends back at the fountains then sprint back to the screening gates. "Everyone outta the way!! My daughter arrives in TEN MINUTES -- let me thru!" as I'm sprinting thru the crowded concourse. They all did....with applause I might add! :-)



(One last shot with Jade and I before heading to meet Kim at the gate!)

We did make it the gate with time to spare. Relax. Calm down. And wait.









Then she arrived. She was so beautiful! And alert. And happy! And curious. It was a perfect introduction.










Kaleb could not WAIT to hold Kim! He was beaming!!!












Although this picture doesn't reflect it, Kimmie has taken an immediate liking to Jade. She'll quit fussing just by being held by Jade. It's very sweet!










One of my favorite shots taken at DIA today! Jade took it without my knowledge. Pretty much captured the moment!


Perfect.







After we met up with our friends at DIA, we brought the party home. We really discovered how active Kim is already! She scoots around just fine and can pull herself up and even enjoys eating Cheerios!


No, the camera's not out of focus. Even the equipment was experiencing teariness from the moment!

The Zimmer Kids! December 18th, 2007.










She has got such a great personality! I know all parents say this, but truth is she's very alert and constantly exploring her new environment.

The opposite side of this coin is that she does experience moments of sadness. You can tell that she misses her familiar environment and the only family that she has ever known. It's tough, but we expected this. Then she'll break through the sadness with a smile and a coo. She's lovely!




No fear of the dog! She jumped right into the Gwenie action. Gwen licked her face a few times in a very lovingly way. :-) They're going to be GREAT friends!








Today was a long day, but it was fun to share it with everyone that could make it! I'm going to work on a "Gotcha!" video that I'll post sometime after this weekend. I'll have video clips and more pictures and a GREAT CHRISTmas song to carry the clip.

Wish us luck and send out a prayer. Kim extremely confused on time, and very tired but sleeping lightly. The next few days are going to require a whole-family effort to make it through. I'll upload more pics and updates tomorrow!

Good night!

All I Want for Christmas in my NEW LITTLE GIRL!

Hello friends and family!

If you haven't heard by now, tomorrow is the day we bring our daughter home! The family is sooooooo excited to have this day upon us. It's the ENTIRE reason why we added onto our home. We have been waiting 22 months (Feb. '06) for this day to happen, and it is almost here!

The cameras have been charged. The car seat has been strapped into the Durango. Grandmas and Grandpas, aunts and uncles, friends and by-passers on the street have been notified. We are driving out to DIA tomorrow afternoon (Tuesday, Dec. 18th), 2pm, and picking up Kim Mee Zimmer from the airport and bringing her home in time for CHRISTMAS!

We are very, very excited. All of us. The paperwork has been shuffled and the red tape has been cut. Right now Kim Zimmer is legally ours...and she's flying high above the Pacific while we're all flying high above the Rockies (the last one was a metaphor!)

Because of a glitch on the Korean paperwork side, Kim is being escorted her stateside rather than us traveling to Korea. We're a bit bummed about not being able to travel, but it's all going to work out for the better. She'll get here much faster than if we would have traveled, and we get to avoid all of the uspleasentries of traveling: jet lag, airport food, hotels, language barrier, escorting a baby via airplane for 24 hours.

Our friends have spontaneously invited themselves to join us at the DIA fountains where Kim will be hand-delivered to us. We welcome their presence and hope that the fanfare isn't too overwhelming for our weary traveler.

I don't have any pictures to share right now, and I'm so excited I can barely type. Plus I'm kinda tired. The next few weeks are going to be exhausting, but fortunately we are not flying solo. Jade and Kaleb are thrilled to pieces at the arrival of their new little sister. Jade can barely stand the wait. Kaleb has been praying non-stop for her since the phone call on Thursday. Kathy's mom is going to join us up in Breck to help take care of Kim, which will offer some sense of familiarity for her. It also means that we are all going to be able to enjoy the mountains this year...what a trip for Kimmie!

Keep watching the blog as I will MOST DEFINITELY wear myself out taking pictures and uploading them for you all to share in our experience!

With much love and anticipation....

Aaron, Kathy, Jade, Kaleb, and ............


p.s. For those of you who have been wondering...

Kim Mee Zimmer was born April 7th, 2007. Her birth name is So Mee Bae. "Mee" in Korean means "beautiful". She is going to be a third generation Korean orphan in our family, as both Kathy and her mom were orphans. When Kathy's folks adopted her, they originally had selected two children for adoption, one named "Okja" (which translated means "Jade"), and the other was named "Kim" (which translated means "Seaweed" ....just kidding!) They gave Okja her American name: Katherine Young Elizabeth Kahler. But Kim's biological father had a change of heart and came back for her, leaving Kathy to be raised without a sibling. We've always had a heart for naming our second daughter "Kim" for the memory that never became. As a cute nick-name, we began referring to her as "Kimmie", even before we had a face for the name. When we were matched with So Mee Bae, it was perfect for us to keep her Korean middle name for her new name, hence Kim Mee Zimmer. I prefer to spell it "Kimmie", while Kat prefers "Kimmee". Since it's a nick-name, you can spell it as you wish!

Good night my friends! Wish us luck!

UPDATE: Tuesday morning. Last night I had the worst sleep EVAR! Geez, wonder why? Anywhoo, we checked on her flight this morning and all is well -- she's still scheduled to arrive at DIA shortly after 2pm! AHhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! Stay tuned!!!

It's Finished!

Merry Christmas!!

Just a little phrase we like to say around here! And how Merry it is right now. Friday, November 30th, we officially finished our home addition. YEA! We called for our final building inspection and passed with a grade of: WOW! We got great appraise from Aurora's building inspectors. They were a good team to work with and very kind to us.

Quick note: If you are viewing this blog with Internet Explorer, click on the 75% or 50% viewing option on the bottom righthand corner to view the larger thumbnail images.


Now for our story!

If you have been following our home addition, you will undoubtedly recognize the fireplace. Here it is, as it was meant to look. Decorated with garland and stockings, we are ready for CHRISTmas. Since we use the fireplace to heat our bedroom, I had to warn Kaleb against loading up the stockings with chocolate! Didn't want that gooey surprise on CHRISTmas!


Funny thing is that I sketched this fireplace numerous times: on drywall, on scrap board, on the back of prints. Those around me never really could envision the final product, but this is exactly how I saw it from the beginning. I love watching my designs come to life!





Here's a shot of our bedroom. The pair of Pella windows above the bed are on the East side of the home, which provides great sunlight to way to wake up to. We do not have air-conditioning in the home, but the ceiling fans do a great job of circulating the outside air for us in the summer. The pair of lights above the bed provide independently controlled lighting for reading, something Kathy and I enjoy doing in the evenings. The window above the fireplace is a German window, which swings inwards (not outwards like most American windows). It's very, very cool and completes the fireplace composition!


My lens on the camera only opens up to 24mm, so I created a collage for you to better understand the view from our bed. When we look up, we can see the fireplace on the right, the entrance on the left, the french doors on the otherside of the room (west wall, which will eventually lead out to a future deck). The main ridge beam that the fans hang from is 12' above the floor. It's such an impressive vaulted space!








As the project wrapped up, the $$ ran out! Eventually we would like to add a couch and tv to our "Sitting Area". But for now it's not important.

You can better see the wood wainscot in this shot. I still have to put a wood cap on it....just trying to find the right wood and grain to complete the finish!







I just love the way the ceiling turned out.

Funny story: the mechanical inspector didn't even notice that we had a fireplace in the bedroom because he told us he was too busy looking at the beautiful beams!

The lights inside the triangular space are direction spot beams that illuminate the fireplace. Accent lights!











I found a pair of antique pocket doors stored in my boss's garage. He sold the pair to me for $200. I designed the opening around them, installed a high-strength aluminum track with steel ball-bearings for the doors to float across. They are simply beautiful! The great thing about the doors is that we only use them for privacy. When not in use, they are not in the way like french doors would have been. The view below is from our bedroom side.





































































You can see the landing at the top of our stairs there behind Kaleb. There is a door on the left that leads to our closet, and a door on the right that leads to our bathroom.








Here's the view from the hallway side. You can see just a sliver of the doors resting in their pockets on either edge of this picture.















Our bathroom turned out beautiful! Lots and lots of hard work to make it happen! His/her vanities. His/her medicine cabinets. A toilet room (with an exhaust fan and operable window!!) The steam shower. Jetted claw-footed tub. Travertine (marble) tile. Lots of daylight, but very private. We are very, very happy with the final product. If you ever come and visit, you've got to try the steam shower. It's a hit!











































You'd never believe it, but we inserted the tub unit through those windows. I kept the window unit nailed in with only 6 nails so that we could remove the window when the time was right. We removed the fixtures and legs from the tub and slipped the unit through the opening. It fit: barely!

A lot of people keep asking about the tub. We got it from a supplier in Florida: http://www.sansirousa.com/index.html

And yes, the tub is just as beautiful as the picture implies. I really wanted an old-fashioned tub for the space but with the amenities of modern-day comfort. This tub is absolutely amazing and exceeded our expectations! This picture is misleading. It looks so small, but it's a 73" long unit. Plenty of space! Worth every penny!!



Now that we're done with construction, Kaleb is able to have a bedroom ALL TO HIMSELF, an amenity he is grateful to have!
















And Jade gets to share her bedroom with Kim, a burden she welcomes and is anxious to share! A "NO BOY'S ALLOWED!" space.

Her room was a bit messy for this shot. She's not nearly the neat freak that Kaleb is. For those of you who have visited our house, this space used to be our master bedroom. The wall with the polka-dots was added, eating into the space. But the stairs to our new bedroom are behind this wall. Jade and Kim will share a room for the time-being. Eventually we figure that Kaleb will want to move to the basement bedroom which will allow Kim to move into his current bedroom. When we started this project, we committed to living in this house for the next 12 years. This gets our children thru grade school. YIKES!

















Well, as always, I tend to ramble. Sorry about that. There's just so much to tell! Come on out and visit us and see the space firsthand! Bring your swim trunks and you can try out the steam shower!



Happy Holidays from the Zimmer Clan!




WOOF!

Our Not-So-Little Man

Big news today! Kaleb lost his FIRST tooth. He was pretty excited as you can tell in the photo. Big sister got him worked up about how painful it was to lose a tooth -- but the time had come and momma plucked it right out!

It's a blast watching the world unfold through the eyes of a child!








KIMMIE UPDATE: We have all the paper work done, now we are waiting for a travel Visa from Korea. Once we have this document she will be cleared for travel and we can go get her! We're expecting to travel after Christmas, but if the Korean gov't. kicks it up a notch, we may be traveling BEFORE Christmas. Yikes! Can't wait!!

Almost There!

Zimmer Family
Residence

circa April, '07











Zimmer Family
Residence

Computer Rendering












Zimmer Family
Residence

circa October, '07








Hey Friends!

The final paint coat is on the walls, the electrical fixtures and outlets are hooked up and working. The fireplace is kicking out tons of heat! Our tile floor is warm as the radiant floors are up and working! The exterior siding is finally complete....we're almost there!

We've got just a few items (a dozen or so) left on the punch list to complete our 600sf addition.


Here's a list of some of the bigger issues:

- Shower repair. My shower drain ended up in a high spot, so I have to modify the floor pan
to slope to the drain.
- Add handrail to stairs.
- Add door hardware.
- Trim out replacement windows. We had the old metal, single-pane windows from the '50's in our main house. We had bought replacement windows from Pella, and Jeff and I cut out the old windows just before our storm last weekend (4" of snow!) I got the windows inserted
and weathered-in before the storm hit, but now I need to trim them out and make
them look perty.
- Add a cap to the wainscot
- Add two gutters

Not much work left, and some of it can be done during the winter months. Kathy and I have been living in the space since it got carpeted in August, and we have been loving it! It's great to get closer and closer with each passing weekend. Soon we will be all done with construction and turn our attention to skiing on the weekends.

I'm looking forward to hanging the Christmas lights this year with our new exterior profile. The new front gable should prove to be a great addition to our light arrangement. I also included an X-10 outlet outside our bedroom doors. This will allow me to program the outlet via my computer and us the programming from our home-security system to control when the Christmas lights go on and off. Just another guy-gadget. I'll let you know how it turns out!



Note to Jeff and Nate:
Remember how careful we were with laying out the floor heat fabric and wire? Remember how much attention we gave to making sure not to pinch or damage the wire? Well guess what. My electrician finally hooked up the wires -- and there was a short on the closet-side wire, preventing it from working. I was REALLY bummed. My electrician was able to hook up the wire under the tile and it worked just fine, but the other wire was grounding out when he tested it with his Ohm-meter, which meant that there was a fault in the wire, either a nail nicking it or a pinch in the line or even a point in the line that got severed. And we were so careful with the loud mouth! Then I noted that 4 of the entry tiles were under the other mat, because the bathroom floor would be warm except for the first 4 tiles as you enter. This made me even MORE bummed! I started thinking about where the problem could be. I was sure the carpet guy had nailed one of his tack strips thru one of the wires. The loud mouth had run out of batteries by the time the carpet was being laid down, so there was no way to warn us if he accidentally nailed through our wires. We knew the tackstrip near the bathroom threshold was tight, so I had made sure he glued down the strip instead of nailing it down, but the rest were all nailed down. I asked my sparky if there was anyway to track where the fault might be, and he had no way of tracing it. Then I remembered one key error (you guys may not know about this). The door openings into the bathroom and closet were designed for a 28" door. But I ordered 24" custom doors from Lowes, an error which I did not realize until the day I was setting them. Standing there with custom doors 4" too narrow, I decided to hug the hinge-sides tight to the existing opening and add 2- 2x4's to the jamb to fur the opening to fit the 24" doors. This meant that I had to add more drywall, tape and mud and abut the already finished walls. It sucked, but it was a good fix. UNTIL THE CARPET GUY CAME! I didn't even think about it, but he laid out his tack strip tight to the new opening. I was thinking about this when it hit me -- we laid out the wire 3-4" from the walls. Well, I'm sure there was a wire right in his NEW path for the tack strip near the extended jamb. Working off of this assumption, I pulled up the carpet at the closet door jamb area and found 4 possible nails that could be the culprit. I pulled the nails (thus losing one tack strip at the door jamb) and had my sparky re-test the wire for a fault. IT WAS CLEAN!He hooked the wire up to the T-stat and it's all up and running the way it was meant to be! YEA!! Just thought you might enjoy this little story, since we worked so hard and were so careful on installing the floor. I thought I was going to have to abandon the heated floor, but now it works! The nail must have just nicked the wire and not severed it completely. All because I never replaced the loud mouth battery!!!


Well, that's about it for now. I have some other non-house related pictures to post of the family. I will create a separate blog entry later for them. We're still working on the red-tape paper work for Kimmee. At this point we are planning on traveling in January to Korea to go bring her home! Other than that, we are just gearing up for Halloween next week: the kids will be going out as a pair of pirates! Will post pics!


On a side note, I would like to dedicate this blog entry to my cousin, Sean, who recently passed away from diabetic complications. He was almost 32 and left behind 2 children and his wife. It's tough losing a family member, and especially hard when the younger ones leave us early. He was one of the few die-hard Bronco fans in our big family and Kathy and I would always enjoy talking football with him at Christmas. One year we had wrapped up a Bronco's sweatshirt for the family gift exchange, which he immediately snatched up. His joy in "winning" our sweatshirt still brings us smiles.

Rest-in-peace, Sean. You will be deeply missed. We will continue to keep your family in our thoughts and prayers.

Presenting: Kim Mee Zimmer

Today, Wednesday September 19th, 2007 -- we received a much awaited call from our adoption agency: they made a match!

At 4pm today, they sent over her information and pictures and it was love at first sight. There she was: Kim Zimmer, waiting to be adopted by her American parents!

We are so excited. I know that this home addition commanded most of our time this summer, but the real reason we needed the space was for the additional child we wanted to add to our family. Now with the addition nearly complete, we can turn our full attention to bringing our little girl home.

So Mee Bae was born April 7th, 2007 to an unwed mother and father (21 yrs old). Knowing that they could not raise this child, they gave her up for adoption. She has been living with a foster family since her birth and is very, very attached to her foster mom (sigh).

She is a healthy and alert 5 month old, and as soon as we sign the paper work and send in our check, the legal red tape will begin being cut and we will become her foster parents with finalization following about 6 months later. Thus, sometime shortly into the new year we will be making a trip to Korea to bring back our daughter!

The kids are already in love with her and are very, very happy to add her to our family unit.

Her name is "So" = "bright" and "Mee" = "beautiful" and "Bae" = her family name.

We have always referred to our unknown daughter as Kim, or "Kimmi", knowing that we would change her name to this once we adopted her. Kathy calls our kids "miss beautiful" and "mr. handsome", so it's befitting that So Mee means "bright and beautiful". Note that by incorporating her Korean name "Mee" (beautiful), it yields: Kim Mee Zimmer, or Kimmi Zimmer! Pretty cool!!

We are very excited to bring her home and appreciate all of your thoughts, prayers, and encouragement as we snowball through the next four months. It takes a village to raise a child!

Can't wait for each and everyone of you to meet our new daughter! Please, please post a message for us here, all of us will be checking this posting and sharing it with others. If you just leave a message as "anonymous" you don't need to create an account, and we'd love to see your responses!

Your friends, the Zimmers: party of five!

UPDATE: Kim (So Mee) was born in Seosan City, South Korea (pop. 150,000). Here is link to her hometown: http://eng.seosantour.net/default.asp?go=40

Seosan City (or Sosan) is located about 60 miles to the south and west of Seoul, South Korea. And about 6,230 miles from her soon-to-be home in Aurora, CO. (thx Google Earth!)

OUCH!!!!!!!!!!

Ever wonder what a 33-year old architect does on his weekends? Well, it varies. This weekend I got into a bar fight, decided to shave my head, and create a 2" gash in my melon!

Let me explain...




It's actually kind of embarrassing, but I'm not one to be shy. So Friday night I walked into the bathroom and dropped something on the floor, bent over to pick it up, and jerked my head up right into the towel bar. OUCH! Now according to the photos you might think that the towel bar won, but I got to tell you -- I knocked it down with one punch and it did NOT get back up!

So immediately after gouging my melon, I put my hand over the wound. I could feel the liquid oozing thru my palm. I took a brief glance, saw a LOT of blood, and shouted for Kathy -- who was already enjoying her 3rd stage of sleep on the couch. She came running, saw my head, SCREAMED, and ran for a towel. Jade, who was still awake, came sauntering into the bathroom, thinking I was "just faking". At the first sight of blood, she tucked tail and ran! Kathy returned with a towel about 30-seconds later, then had to sit down, then had to lie down. I sat there applying pressure to my scalp, weighing whether-or-not to make the trip to ER.

The thing with head wounds (this is my second): they don't just bleed, the blood sack below your scalp explodes! So there's a lot of blood, initially -- and then it stops.

I phoned Jeff, my buddy across the street who is an EMT and asked him to look at it. I went over to his hosue, we cleaned up the wound and decided not to do stitches, but that a butterfly bandage would suffice. Shaved my head a bit more to make room for the bandages (unfortunately I cannot blame the receding hairline on the wound, rather my ancestors!) Jeff gave it some tenderly EMT lovin' and taped me up. I just removed the bandages this afternoon in time for our final 'Sweat Equity' taping.

What a weekend ride! I wore a hat to church last night because I had a big 'ol bandage covering up the wound....didn't want to field a barrage of questions. Anyone who caught me without the hat definitely gave me second and third looks!

The wound has healed up well. It was more of a gouge than a slice, which is why stitches would not have really helped. Now I just got to let it heal and let my hair grow back!

If you look closely to the new 2" gash you can see the old wound just above it (6 stitches). It looks like when I go to complete the trifecta I should aim for another horiz. wound to complete the "Z". Can you see it? The top scar that is healed combined with the new scar create 2/3's of a capital letter "Z". Almost there.....I'll be like the Zimmer Family Harry Potter: the Boy with the Scar!

So that's how we started the weekend!

We finished the weekend by completing most of our punch list: touch-up paint, adding window hardware, clean-up, closet touches, etc... Now we have just a few little items left to complete the addition. Trim, some hardware, base board. But we're getting there! It's exciting, and we receive high complements from everyone that visits. It's good to be close to the finish line.

I'll have my buddy who is a photographer swing by and snap some better, more prof. shots and get the finals posted up here. Keep checking for the final blog....

Carpet's in, we're movin' on up!

....took a whole lot of tryin', just to get up that hill!


Wow! I didn't realize how many of you were checking in on us. You will note a new feature I've added to the site to track where people are watching us from. Portugal? India? Athens? Peru? Wow! Crazy stuff! I;m really hoping for a hit from Africa (Madagascar?) and Australia, so if you know anyone there....please pass long the link!




We got the carpet installed on Friday. It looks fantastic! We spent the weekend moving our stuff out of the living room and into our new space. Didn't take too long to fill up the new closet. Can Americans ever really have enough closet space?








The lighting is just perfect for us. We have the accent lights that shine on the fireplace. The ceiling fan lights that add a comfortable level for the space. And the reading lights above the bed which I took much advantage of this weekend, diving into a Clive Cussler novel. I just love the way the steel, and electrical conduit, and light fixtures, and beams interact with each other and are exposed on the ceiling. The pictures really don't do this composition justice: it's a must see!


Those of you who (embarrassingly) visited our house and witnessed the massive pile of STUFF in the living room: it's all gone! Hard to believe, but Kathy spent the weekend clearing it out and restoring the room (and house) to order. It looks great! No clutter -- and I had forgotten that we had a couch in there!


Everyone keeps asking, "Is it done?" Well, not quite yet. We have a bunch and bunch of details left to do: paint touch-up, plumbing touches, electrical punch items, the siding, the rail cap, staining and sealing the wood members.....it'll keep us busy! Plus the downstairs spaces (Jade's room and living room) need to be finished and painted and trimmed out. But our big accomplishment of moving our bed into the space and Jade's bed into her new space is complete.

The network will be out in a week and a half to wrap up the final shots for the show. I'm hoping the show will air sometime by the end of September, first of October. Will keep you posted with that progress.












Another shot of our tub in place: it's such a great tub!









Here's a shot of our vanities on the opposite wall from the tub. They match beautifully! They were our bargain buy from Lowes.









Today was Kaleb's first day of Kindergarden, and Jade's second week of 3rd grade. They look so cute in their uniforms! They walked to school with Jordan, a neighborhood eight-grader.