Progress is Progress

Thank you all so much for your encouragement on my post over the weekend! It is so nice to read all your comments, it just makes my day! I know everything will turn out great, it's just hard to maintain that perspective when "being done" seems SO far away right now.

With that said, we are making some progress! My in-laws were here for hours on both Saturday and Sunday helping us out which was GREAT! And my parents were here last weekend so we have definitely had some assistance. Seriously, I don't know what we would do without dads. J and I are both so lucky to have dads that seem to know the answers to everything. It amazes me, they can fix/hang/replace anything!!

So we did we accomplish?

• We got all the painting done on the first floor, minus a few touch-ups in the guest room. The trim & walls are done!
• Painted our bedroom...with the exception of touching up the ceiling in the places that the frog tape pulled the paint off! ugh...and the hall upstairs
• Hung our chandelier {which I am semi obsessed with!} and mirror in the dining room

•  Hung the TV on the wall in the basement...so we finally have a place to sit and relax while the upstairs is being done. I never thought I would appreciate a finished basement so much!

I will post pictures of the actual rooms {of course!} when they are a little more complete. Currently, the floor re-do is beginning on the second floor. I posted about that fiasco here. Apparently it's going to take about THREE WEEKS to finish the floors. About three days for each "section" and four sections of house to do. Seriously annoying. There I go again losing perspective....ha! They better be perfect. I will share some plans & inspiration for some rooms in the mean time.

I have been on the hunt for some moving announcements to update all of our family and friends on our change of address. Theses are my top picks:

 Do you have a favorite? I love the anchor, from minted, and the others are from tiny prints.

Enough about the house stuff! I wanted to thank my friend {av} from {longdistanceloving} for this stylish blogger award! If you haven't visited her blog, you should! She is a fellow Rhode Islander who I hope to meet up with some day!

As part of this award, I'm supposed to share 7 facts about myself. So you get another list :)

• I grew up in Hershey, Pennsylvania, home of the original Hershey's chocolate factory...and yes it did in fact smell like chocolate.
• When I applied to college, I wanted to be a teacher. I switched into nursing during my freshman orientation and I'm so glad I did!
• I am one of four kiddos, and I'm the oldest. I have twin sisters and a little brother.
• I love to travel but don't get to nearly enough. At the top of my list of places to go? Italy.
• I did not meet my husband in the hospital. We met through my old college roommate. Someday I'll share the whole story :)
• I'm looking forward to becoming a mom someday.
• I don't think I can go a day without a piece of chocolate! Darn sweet tooth!

Whew! That was a jam-packed post. Congrats to you if you made it to the end!