Construction zone

As I mentioned in my earlier post we have bought our very own little trailer… not too little it’s a double wide with 2 bedrooms 2 bathrooms built in the 70s. When we first started looking at trailers I thought there is no way I am living in one of those things, then I saw this one. It was dirty probably smelly and ugly but I could see past it all. The bedrooms were spacious, the master bath was gorgeous with a corner shower and TWO separate vanities both with its own sink which meant I would get my very own J the dining and living room had big, beautiful, open beams and with windows big enough to let all the morning sun in I finally started imagining I could settle into this little house.

There were a couple hiccups with the buying process on the property managements part (nobody seemed to know who was in charge). A couple times I thought we were going to have to start looking different places and even more times I wanted to strangle some folks but it all worked out and we finally were able to call it ours. That’s when the real work started. We (mostly josh and his dad) ripped out the entire kitchen.

EVERYTHING went into the dump: the cabinets, the sink, the garbage disposal, the linoleum that was on the floor, thankfully even the little creatures hiding behind the old appliances went out with the garbage. After that we started on the dining room. The people who fixed up the trailer so we could somewhat move in had put carpet in the dining room and entry way so we had to rip it up along with the padding and tack strips. The only problem about working there was our little house had no AC! Grandpa Dick and Grandma Barbra were awesome and let us borrow their commercial size fan!! After all that hard work we called it quits for the weekend. Over the next couple of weekends we (josh and his Dad mostly) fixed the kitchen piping, gas, put in new kitchen cabinets, counter tops, toilets and sinks. During the week me and Krystal would come by and paint. I can proudly say I have painted every wall in my house (I never want to do it again though).

 Josh, dad, mom and Jason helped put in brand new tile flooring and grouted it.

 the puppy really likes the tile floor

 We finally officially moved in once we put in the AC’s in. The first night in our very own place felt absolutely amazing. Looking around knowing you had a little bit to do with everything you see makes you feel very proud.

josh put brand new doors in for me. the old ones were rickety and i was afraid some one could brake in now look at them lol

Jaired and Andrea spent the weekend with us and we put them to work too J they helped us move some more stuff over, paint some more, install the TV and wire it all in. Thank you guys I finally have couches now!

We have since put up our fence and grass is now growing.

I am so proud of my little house! There are still a few odds and ends that need to be finished. Plus this doesn't even do justice to the amount of work and time my husband and family has put into it but it sure has come a long ways. I tried giving every one credit where it was due, and I am so very thankful for all the help and support along the way we are so very blessed!! I’ll have to do another update once it is all the way finished, but for now it looks like it is bedtime at the Wilcox residents

Until next time…

Catching up

Wow I haven't been on here in a while... well almost three years. It’s crazy how fast life moves! One moment I’m on a plane moving across country the next I’m on the other side of the country yet again but this time with a new baby and my little family. I’ve been thinking about starting this back up for a while but it wasn’t until I was talking to my little cousin about how scattered our family was (not in a bad way of course). We’ve all just moved in different directions... literally! My dad, mom, brothers and little sister are in the north east. My big sister is in Florida. I have family in Texas, Indiana, and Arizona and here I am in California. I want this blog to be about connecting my family a little bit more, even if it is only a couple words about how were doing over here on the west coast. So for those of you who aren’t up to date here it is: I got married in early march of 2013 to Josh my very handsome airman, we moved into the cutest little apartment and started our little life together. On January 24^th 2014 Levi Jackson Wilcox, the 3^rd member of our little family was born.

I stopped working; we moved onto the military base and settled into our new life.  Well that’s what we thought we were going to be doing. About a month after Levi was born we got news that josh would be able to get out of the air force earlier than the terms on his contract. So once again we packed up our house, but this time we drove allll the way across the beautiful USA. We stopped along the way to sightsee and visit friends and family. After all that driving we finally arrived in California. Note: if you’re going to drive across country make sure your AC works.

We moved in with family for the first couple months and recently found a little place, our very own double wide trailer. Might not sound like much but it’s all ours. We remodeled the whole entire thing. From painting every single wall, to tearing out the old kitchen and josh putting a new one in for me. Let me tell you it is absolutely gorgeous!! It still has some finishing touches but it has come a long way from when we first saw it. We recently adopted a new puppy named gunner the cutest thing you have ever seen.

Levi is growing super-fast!! Crawling, eating baby food, trying to walk, and well generally just trying to find trouble.

Since life is so fast passed around here I might not be the best at calling or even keeping up but I hope this finds you all doing well. I promise I will try to update this whenever I get the chance…most likely when Levi is sleeping

Untill next time J