The Move

So... we've moved again!! Yes I know we move a lot. A LOT! The house we were living in was supposed to be a temporary one, when we had to move out of the, we'll call it the big house, we were in due to the owners wanting to move back into their home. Well there was nothing around here at the time, this cute little house barely came up the weekend before we had to be out of the "big house". So we took it, but our contract was for a year. So when Spring rolled around I started looking for another house, especially with  new additions to our family coming. Upon finding nothing for months and months, Selena moved in getting ready for college, McKenna was born and we were still in the "little house". We were fitting 5 of us in a tiny 2 bedroom house. I called the house cursed, because I have never broken so many things in my life, with the whole main floor tile. Christmas time brought many decorations and tree ornaments broke, plates, cups/glasses, cookware/bowl thing (my really nice one), candle holders, and more.
Just when it was looking like we were going to have to live there for another year we were able to buy this cute old house. Granted it needs a lot of work. But we are already working on some of the problems. At first I was a little skeptical because of how much work it needs and how much we really do not have the money for it. But buying it was cheaper than any rent including what we were paying and it would be ours. And with house prices around here us buying another house wouldn't come for awhile still so we took the opportunity. Everything happened so fast and we have been busy for the past 3 weeks or so working on the house and everything else. Because of the type of loan we have been able to do a few things now to fix up the house such as a furnace (very nice), much needed new carpet and entryway flooring, and dishwasher.
But we have also been working on the bsmt, which will be the master bedroom. It had a leak in the one corner which had caused quite a bit of black mold over the drywall. So we ripped all the drywall down only to find that the rock foundation had some problems, some of the mortar had gone to dirt over the years (this house was built in the 1880's... It was actually the first post office in Parowan). There was also no insulation down there. I guess it was used as a root cellar for most of its life. But as with most cases on old houses there are more problems that leak through the more you work on them, as is our case. When they (being whoever put it in) wired they did it half a**** as well as any fixes they did. A lot of the 2x4s were rotten and had to be taken out and replaced with a few extra put in, they didn't even frame with exact measurements for each one... some were 2' apart some were more some were less. One of the main house supporting beams had a split through it. The list of problems does go on, but I won't complain any more other than one big whine right here. The original part of the house, not the kitchen on back that was added on, has pine tongue and groove floor through the living room and two bedrooms, what do you think the "nice" people did to the beautiful original floor??? NAILED plywood to it!! I was so mad when we realized that. We were thinking it would have wood floors under the old carpet so we could just refinish them and have a beautiful original floor, well when we pulled up the carpet it was plywood so we were disappointed naturally. Well when they (being Mike and Sena, since I was upstairs taking care of a baby) pulled down the sheetrock from the ceiling in the basement, there it was the beautiful floor just like we thought, well the space was covered in cobwebs and dead spiders but still. The same floor is up in the attic. Oh but sidenote there is also a great old door up there too!!! I love finding treasures, old things used by people way before I was born.
Anyway so we have come far already, however, Mike and I are still sleeping in the living room patiently waiting until we finish our room. I use the word patiently loosely. At least its starting to get to that point, we are anxious to have a room again!
I am slowly getting things together and up in the house. We moved quickly and was able to put most things away and/or together but there are still things needing done. And unfortunately with a 12 week old baby doing much without her isn't easy. So when I have final pictures on our room I will post before and afters of the whole house then.