my first flip (I'm hooked)

Imagine my reaction to this house.  This house is what my amazing Kevin found for us after he landed a job at the VA in Salt Lake City.  I was just so thrilled to get back home to my family I didn't care what my house looked like, and I love a challenge.   I don't know what it was but I absolutely loved this house.  I may have loved it a little more after I fixed it up but non the less I loved it.

BEFORE

 

 AFTER

 The main bath was infested with termite and termite damage, so this was actually my first project
BEFORE

 AFTER, with my dad's and Jakes help we turned this bath into a beautiful shower.

 I loved how this built in turned out

 Master bedroom, even though I loved the cabin wall paper :), it had to go

 AFTER

 I couldn't find a before of the mater bath and that makes me sad because it was a beauty, it had green faux marble counter tops.  but the after my be a little better.

 BEFORE

 AFTER

 BEFORE

 AFTER,  The house was covered I'd estimate 95% with wallpaper and drapes that were straight out of the 70's, so it doesn't look like a lot of change there was, new paint, new blinds.

 AFTER  no before but just a coat of fresh paint, if I had more time and $ I would of changed out all the light fixtures

 BEFORE, this was Kaden's room so he helped me demolish the paneling, and some of the built ins.  That was the best part of the flip, the demolishing.

 AFTER

 I did this closet all by myself, pat on the back, we were lucky enough that most the flooring was replaced before we moved in but for some reason the bedroom downstairs and the bathroom downstairs were the original so we did have to replace that.

 BEFORE

 AFTER.  I also would of loved to take out the lava rock, but we decided to use it as a rental property instead of selling it so some things just didn't make since to change out

 BEFORE down stair bath.  Carpet floors gross

 what was under the carpet.... pretty

 AFTER  We took the vanity out of our new house and replaced the one in our old house with it

 BEFORE  The two care garage was actually a 1 1/2 car garage because of this massive pantry.  I ripped it out so we could park both our cars in the garage for the winter.

I think I found a new love, it was so much hard work, I was so sore for about 2 months, my two favorite things were demolishing and tile.  I gained so much wisdom and help from my amazing dad.  I am very proud of myself for tackling this and would love to do it again.  We found some great renters, and we get a little profit each month, win win.

Christmas and our new house

 

 Christmas 2013 was a great Christmas.  To tell you the truth I actually hate Christmas, its stressful, there is way too much expectation, stores are crowded.  But I do it for my kids....  I think this was a great Christmas because it was the first in 7 years that we were home.  I loved being home for Christmas.  We made our annual gingerbread houses.

As always Kaden is just not quite into it as Tanner and Kali are.  But I think he does it to make me happy.  Such a nice boy

 Kali is way into making her nail all beautiful for holidays, she is so creative.

 My frozen view

 Love being home even in the winter

 We usually don't do big Chirstmas's but this year was a little different.  We had to get so much warm clothes, snow clothes, blankets.  We haven't lived in the cold for 7 years by kids didn't even have coats.  And on top of that we were moving again to a new house, so we had a few things we got each other for that.

 Kaden's presents

 Kali actually liked her presents this year.  (that's a first)

 Tanner's presents

 Christmas morning sure can wear a girl out (she's faking it:))

 It was so great being with the whole family for our annual Christmas eve party.  Best parents/ grandparents ever

 The girls sure love their grandma

 Ok so we moved to Utah last June, we moved to a house which I loved, it needed a lot of work and was kind of small.  So Kevin found us another house very close to our current one, which was still close to the kids schools and grandma's and grandpa's.  It is massive we moved Christmas day great present to us.  Here are some picture of it before we moved in.   Here is the grand entrance.

 Formal dinning

 Kitchen,  this house was gorgeous in the early 90's  it has tons of potential.  And tons of space 5900 square feet.

 Half bath

 Master bath

 Master closet

 Family room, with amazing views all around, more windows than wall space

 Tanners room

 Kaden's room,  The kids bedrooms are full of cubbies

 Kali's room

 Upstairs hallway

 up stairs bath

 Kali's dance room

 Another view of Kali's dance room

 basement, family/play room

 Another view of basement family/ playroom with wet bar, this room is twice this big I just didn't get a picture I guess

 Laundry room

 The piece da resistance, the theatre

 It has three tiers, surround sound, this is defiantly what sold the house for us.

 The kids think our new spiral staircase is their new jungle gym