Painting is almost done!!! Our cabinets are mostly in, wainscotting is going up in the bedroom. Flooring is done!!!! Trim is going down, both crown molding and baseboards. It's so great to see finishing touches coming along.

Here's some more progress photos. Some cabinets are being placed, Joe had to build a game for the granite I found in craigslist. This isn't a very good picture but I'll get a better one once it's cleaned off from Sheetrock dust. Some doors are being hung and here's a picture of my washer and dryer which I think I'd just funny sitting in the middle of the living room. Paint will be going on this week!!!!

Here is some more progress pictures. Radiant heat going down on the floor hooray! Jetty is sad since she's in everyone's way do she gets kicked out. And both bedrooms are sheet rocked!!!! One bedroom has one coat of mud as well. Our bathtub is installed and the bathroom is also sheet rocked.

2014

In order to really understand this post, you need to read this post about 2013 http://adelynns-moodring.blogspot.com/2014/09/2013.html One thing I didn't mention in the last post was about my job, which I loved and they knew I was moving. They basically gave me a promotion and told me when I moved that I could work from home after we moved. This was a huge blessing since my company did not usually allow people to work from home. Then in February of 2014 my life started to change. I went to a conference in February which stated changing me. One of the topics the speaker talked about was having a hard or soft heart. I knew my heart was hard. Like I said before I was holding it against God that we weren't able to have kids. So in this conference God was really showing me that I needed to trust Him and that He had my best interest in mind whether we ever had kids or not. Anyway in March we decided to move, even though we had not sold our house. We both had better jobs waiting for us in New Hampshire and things were not going very well at the church we were at. My biggest prayer with moving was that we would find a great church that we could conndct with. We visited Joe's church he grew up in the first week, then the second week found the church we are currently going to. We love this church and have been so blessed by the people in it. We've made some friends who were around our same age and situation. We ound out several of the couples we were beginning a friendship with were pregnant. Now I really wanted to be pregnant with them, in a similiar situation I was in after we got married within weeks of each other. Bt we had amazing peace that we were God wanted us and He would control if and when we got pregnant. A few months later we also found out that we're pregnant. This of course made us estatic. Not only were we pregnant, which we wanted for a year and nine months, but we were going to be pregnant at the same time and first time parents as many of our friends. I cannot express how much this meant to us, and to me in particular. I knew from when we got married that going through struggles with someone was going to be invaluable. The day before we find out we were pregnant we got an offer on our house that we had left in Iowa. This was a huge burden lifted off us, since we were hoping that I'm not going to work after we have kids which whould have been very difficult with 2 mortgages. So in the same week we find out we have an offer on our house, which we had previously thought we would have to only rent due to some structral issues, we also found out we were pregnant. Both things we waited over a year on and had all but given up on both of them. In the past year or two more than ever before I have learned how perfect God's timing is. If we had gotten pregnant when we wanted to, right away we might never have moved to New Hampshire. If we had gotten pregnant earlier we wouldn't be going through this with so many first time parents. If we had sold the house when I wanted to, I wouldn't be working from home which has been a huge blessing as I was pretty sick in my early pregnancy. It is so clear to me that God has, and had through all the pain and struggle, us exactly where He wants us. We are so blessed to be living in New Hampshire, about 3 miles from Joe's parents, and my borther and sister in law are moving upstairs. Earlier in our marriage I wouldn't have been able to say that was a blessing, but I have grown so much in that. But now I will have babysitters almost anytime I want one, and I'm really looking forward to devolping my relationship with my in laws deeper. I cannot even express how blessed we are right now. We had a truly horrible year last year, and God has been showing us over and over and over this year the blesings w have in store when we trust Him and stop trying to conrol everything in our lives.

2013

2013 I've thought and prayed about this post a lot. I've gone back and forth if I should write it. I've started writing it several times in my head. You see 2013 was a very tough year for me, most of which I hid from almost everyone around me, and I was convinced I was ready to be so open in such a public forum. But recently a friend encouraged me to write everything going on in 2014 and I can't do that without taking about 2013. So here it goes. It actually started in 2012. Several women in the church we were going to started getting pregnant. So in late October we decided we would also start trying. So that's where we were beginning of 2013. Our church was fairly small and there became more women pregnant than not. Including older women who were done having babies and single women. That year in our church there were over 13 pregnancies. I believe there were 3 married women who could have had kids that were not pregnant, including me. This number of pregnant women did not include two of my closest friends and one of my sisters. I knew I wanted to be pregnant with my friends and raise our babies together. In 2011 I got married within months of most of my friends and going through all of that together bonded us in a way I never thought possible. So as the year went on and more and more of my friend got pregnant and stated having their kids I grew more and more depressed and bitter with God. Why could I do what women were made for? Why wouldn't He let us get pregnant when it was clearly the best timing? At least I thought it was. Then in July God directed us to move closer to my husband's family and move to New Hampshire. OK fine, I thought, this is why we haven't gotten pregnant yet, I never would have moved with a baby. Now we have a direction and a plan. We'll put the house on the market, move in the fall and get pregnant right after that. Well God had other plans. Our house didn't sell in the fall, so we took it off the market for winter. And I got really mad. I couldn't see why God kept directing us to do things if He wasn't going to hold up His end of the deal. We knew He was in control of when we sold our house and when we got pregnant. We also knew He directed us to do both those things, so why wasn't it happening like we all planned it? A thought began forming in my sub conscious that had an effect on my thoughts and actions but I was not really aware of until January or February 2014. The thought was that I’m not going to worship or serve God as He deserves or as I know I should until I get what I want. I was throwing a temper tantrum because I wasn’t getting my way. Once I realized what was in my sub conscience, I was horrified. Following that to its logical conclusion there are 2 major consequences for thinking that. 1. That God is just a cosmic genie and 2. That I have the right and power to decide if God, the creator of the universe, is worthy of my praise. The choice I was coming down to, once I realized what I was thinking was either to walk away from my faith or trust the God is ALWAYS good, loves me and has my best interests at heart, whether or not I feel like it. This is where I left 2013. Bitter, knowing I needed to change but really unsure of how.

Newest home renovation

We are currently re-doing the basement of the house we are living in. It was a storage area, nowwe're going to make it an apartment. Here is some progress the first few days.