Ideally...

We have a home! We're slowly moving into Ideal Street. Although we haven't spent a night there yet, we've been spending many days there. Our first day in the house, Rainy was very happy to see that we have a family of deer who come to visit.

Our backyard

My uncle Mike has been helping us a ton by painting our celing and garage and fixing our walls. Chad and my dad put a new hardwood floor into the kitchen on Saturday afternoon (only took 4 hours!), and my mom has painted Maria's bedroom a great shade of purple! My ugliest bathroom in the world has yet to be made over, but I'm trying to be patient.

Maria helping papa with the new floor...

Again, being helpful (or not so much). You can see the old kitchen floor in the background.

We've been enjoying our weekends together in Duluth - we even have new friends already! They go quickly, however, as Chad is still driving back and forth to the cities during the week. We're crossing our fingers that something will come soon!

Closing

Everything has finally cleared with our underwriters (or undertakers), so we're going to closing! The big day is this Friday! Our address will be 614 W Ideal Street, Duluth MN 55811. We are going to move in slowly as our new carpet won't be delivered for about 4 weeks:( But it's nice to know that everything looks like it's going to work out.
We are both still working hard - me at casa Sundin and Chad in the cities. We're still crossing our fingers that something will come along to bring him up here soon, especially since we'll have a place of our own.
We'll soon be ready for visitors, so feel free to come and see us!