A little bit here and a little bit there.

Well Phil finished off the basement suite just in time for our renters to move in on the 15th but guess what, I forgot to take pictures of it.  So you'll just have to imagine, it looks great.  We are blessed to have great friends of ours living there and so we can just pop up or down for coffee so easily.  It really should help our monthly petrol/gas bill!  See how I provided both the British and the Canadian lingo there!!  Anyway, Phil finished the basement on the Saturday morning and promptly started work again in the afternoon, working for 3 days straight at a hair salon that had shut so he could do some renos for them.  He had one day off and now he's onto a 2 week job.  Needless to say, the final things that need done here at Casa Knudsen might take a little longer.  But thats ok because there's no money tree growing in the garden so its great that Phil has work.

So on his day off between 2 jobs last week, Phil spent a couple of hours up in the attic doing this

Yup, he's blowing in the insullation!  Apparently it was pretty sparse in places but its better now.  Hopefully this will make our home more energy efficient and reduce our electrical bill.  We just got our first one a few days ago - yowza!!!  Heating our fourth floor condo was dramatically cheaper.  Ah well, c'est la vie.  I am very happy we have a house now and will try to embrace the silly bills that come with it.

There's other little finishing touches going on here and there.  The proper pantry cupboard finally turned up and Phil was able to install it.  They had messed up the order and sent us the wrong size.  That was a month long saga and a half but the nice thing is we got our money back for it and now we have some random extra cupboards that we may put in the laundry room.

At this point child locks on the cupboard really help rice crispy insanity on the floor but as you can see they dont all have locks on them yet.

At this point I would just like to boast about my husband who has worked so hard to make such a beautiful home for us.  On his rare evenings off he's trying to catch up on sleep.

But equally, he can be found in the kitchen making pizza dough from scratch..........yup he is truly gifted in all sorts of ways.  The pizza was amazing.

I love him and I love her!