Before and After Shock

I'm probably the only one on the planet who does this, but today I googled our new house address to see what kind of info I could find.  I stumbled upon the listing that was put up June of this past year, so about 7ish months ago.  This listing would've been what the owners of it now that are selling it to us would've seen and bought the house off of.

And then I saw the pictures.

Oh my.

We knew our house had been completely renovated but I had no idea the extent that these guys went through to make our home so pretty.  It makes me appreciate even more all the work they are willing to continue to do until we move in :)  And I have to mention the fact that this house was put up for listing as we saw it in September, which means they did all this work in 3 short months!

So here's some before and after pictures.  Be disgusted and amazed with me.

Before

After

 

Before Livingroom

 After

Before Kitchen

After

                                     

Dining room before

After

Family Room Before

After

Bathrooms Before

After

Mud Room Before

After

Bedroom Before

After  (why did they cover up these gorgeous hardwood floors with red carpet!?)

I'm so thankful for people who flip houses so we don't have to :)

The many faces of Casen and Mac

I have a bunch of Christmas posts to do, but I still have to get everything organized.  So in the mean time...here's some goofballs.  They were quite the duo at Christmas.  Still learning the art of sharing....but cute none the less :)

Yay!

Twinner aka Morgan is getting marriedd!  Tim proposed on New Years Eve :-) Were so excited for them and I can't wait for the wedding.  Congrats twinner.  You deserve it.

2013 Picture Review

I am so looking forward to 2014.  It is a year of "settling in." A complete family. A house we have no plans to move out of in 1, 2, or even 5 years.  A job for Caleb that will hopefully settle into a career.  Finally a life we get to call our own and our home.

But here is our crazy 2013 in review.

In February we welcomed our little lady.

In April we said goodbye to our life in California.  (I miss it soo much...where we lived not so much the military life.)

In May Caleb finished his 5 years with the Marines

We celebrated 3 years with our little man

We moved into our apartment in Virginia

                                      

We celebrated 4 years married, 7 years together

Caleb got a new job

 We bought a house!

Our Christmas

Our family Christmas came a bit before the actual date this year.  We knew we'd be leaving early for New York, so one night when Caleb came home from work at midnight he woke up the kids and we did our presents.  Next year we'll be staying put and all presents will wait until the 25th :)  But we had fun making a month of it this year.

Finally, the big news.

As you know, we bought a house.

But the real reason we bought a house is because Caleb got a new job :)

We found out at the end of November out of 700 people Caleb was one of the 30 people chosen to join the Henrico County Police Department.  It was a 6 month application process and lots of tests and interviews later we finally knew for sure.

His first day of the academy is today and will be 8 months long...and until we move into our house will be an hour commute to work daily.  So we really hope everything goes smoothly with the closing!

I am so so proud of him and can't wait to start this next chapter in our lives.  Never a dull moment in this Geiger household!

Arya discussing things (loudly) with the Christmas tree....

....apparently she was shocked by what it said