Thursday, December 8, 2016

Kleinlife 2016: A year in review

2016 -- the year our blogging slowed...then stalled...the died.

For us, 2016 is summed up in 5 words.

"we worked on the house."

But we've also had a few other things happen...here's our 2016 year in review:

January:  

Cabinets arrived a the new house....here is the first one going up!


and more and more and more!


We also enjoyed one of the only snowfalls of the year...

And officially ate in our new dining room on an actual (kids) table!


Andy also started a NEW JOB -- as a Water Quality Forester for Kansas Forest Service.

February:

February saw our (nearly) completed kitchen... 


and lots of little things happening!


March:

(Andy's) Uncle David and Aunt Carol were able to come down and trim out the house for us!  Amazing how having things like window trim...and ya know, doors, makes a house feel real.


It was also a great thing to finally get a railing and no longer have a baby death trap in the middle of the floor!


We started unpacking a few things as the kitchen and trim were done...


And spent the first night in the house on Easter Eve.  

We were worried that waking up to candy all over the house after our first night there may have set some unreasonable expectations...


but we were all so excited to finally be living there, it didn't matter.




April: 

After moving in there was still a TON of work to do...the kids became full time supervisors.


May:

In late spring we began to enjoy all the outdoor space at the new digs



June:

June is always a busy month for work and play..and the work on the house continued.



lots of fun outside!

July: 

With most of our bigs projects getting close to wrapping up we took our first vacation in 2 years and spent some time at the family home in West Virginia.


In house news...our clock finally came to live with us:



August:

In August we continued to get the house organized, cleared enough boxes out of our basement for Cora to set up here play area:


We, of course, loved the olympics:


and beautiful Kansas sunsets.


Cora also started pre-school.


September:

Our favorite spunky girl turned 4!!


We all finally started feeling settled in the new digs.


Spent A LOT of time riding bikes.


and traveled to Virginia for a dear friend's wedding.


October:

We enjoyed lots of warm weather as summer ended...still getting lots of time to play outside.


And used the earlier nights to work on getting the house organized.


Of course K-State football is always a part of our fall.


I also started a new job as Assistant Dean in the College of Agriculture.

We FINALLY OFFICIALLY closed on our house.  bye bye construction loan.

And we got into the halloween spirit.





November:

Bode is TWO -- somehow...

We were excited to spend more than full week in Minnesota for Thanksgiving and had lots of snow to play in!



December:

We are having so much fun decorating for Christmas and celebrating in our new home.


Still a lot to do, but our own schedule now.

It's been a busy, fast, exciting year!  We are excited for 2017!







1 comment:

Kelsey said...

Merry Christmas! 2016 was the year of the House.