THE BASEMENT

I can't believe that after living in our house for 5 years we are finally able to finish our basement!!

It is RIDICULOUSLY exciting! We have been saving and we thought from all of the quotes we had gotten that we would only be able to finish a little bit because we only had about half of what we needed. Well it turns out that Kelly, a friend of TJ's from Verizon, does construction on the side and said he would do our basement. We are in good hands because he is awesome at what he does and is saving us a TON of money and because of him we are able to finish most of the basement excluding the crawl space and the bathroom. I feel really grateful for Kelley and for all that he is doing for us. We truly lucked out.

Before we could even get started we had to first clear out the basement. I wish we had a picture of what it looked like before. It was going to be a big job. And it was. It took us 5 hours straight to clear out. Once that was done things have been going super fast. Tomorrow the dry wall goes up!!! It's finally happening!