FINALLY another update!

Well here I am, an update is way past due! We have many more things accomplished since the last post. The floors are COMPLETELY done! (Stained, stained, varnished, varnished). We have our living room furniture/rug moved in, office furniture in (and a new computer to replace my slowly failing PowerBook mac). Right now, we're painting doors and trim. After that, we just need to continue "settling" in and getting things organized/arranged in here. We're almost done, but it's going very slowly since I'm in school, Mike works, and M/D can only come once a week to help out. Here are just a few picture updates from the past month. They're still not completely current, but I'm kind of waiting until I can get good "after" pictures to post many more pictures. We're THAT close!

Putting the old kitchen fan into our bedroom. No more head bonking. Unless you stand on the bed...
New blinds for all bedrooms. This is before the windows were painted. The wood showing is now all painted white!
One of my new "friends" at the house. A small tree frog who likes to suction himself onto our kitchen window at night when there are bugs on it. He disappeared awhile ago when Mike cleaned out his home of wood scraps on the ground. :(
Now the "fun" stuff. Here is me staining the floor to the living/dining/hall. It took about 3 hours for each coat (2 coats). I left a "walking strip" so we could still live in the bedroom. The "walking strip" took another hour or so to stain once the other side was dry. Whew. What a lot of work.

This pretty much sums up staining in general.

And here is the finished floor with 2 coats of stain---but not varnish on yet!
Now for the varnishing! D did that.

Here is M painting trim

And here is proof of Kelsey's "renovation-brain." I was putting cabinet knobs onto all the kitchen/dining room cabinets. I definitely put this one on the wrong side. If anyone gets stuck INSIDE the cabinet, at least they will have a handle to aid them in escaping.
Oh, and here is another turkey picture! They're everywhere all the time.