Move in day!

So, I got back from Sao Paulo just over a week ago, and it´s been a pretty crazy week! Mimosa made it back from Sao Paulo fine, and has since made friends with Pirata (the australian cattle dog), is fine with Gigo (a boxer-looking mutt) and has only failed to win over Sisa (a 16 yr old aspiring lap dog). She´s also learned how to open the screen doors, and enjoys stealing flip flops -- but is otherwise well behaved, which is good since she´s probably about 45 pounds (and not even four months old!)



This week we: bought a bed (Tues -- delivered Friday), had the cabinet guys out to take measurements, talk details (Wed), ordered cabinets for the kitchen and bathroom and armoir for the bedroom (Fri), Eduardo finished installing the doors to the three bedrooms, acid washed the house to remove remnant cement and grout (Sat), cleaned all the donated furniture and moved it inside and assembled it (Sun), cleaned the veranda (Sun), installed the home theatre (Sun), purchased new sheets, lamps for the bathroom and bedroom, and installed most of the lighting. We also resolved the process at ProCon to get our money back for the tiles which took over two months to arrive from sao paulo. And Eduardo started job training! Today the last of the doors will be installed and all of the door handles.



And most importantly, we slept in the house Monday night for the first time! Most of our things are still at the other house but we're gradually moving over a few things to hold us over until the cabinets arrive. The kitchen and bathroom cabinets should be here in two weeks and our bedroom wardrobe and the laundry cabinet is set for delivery at the end of February (the 28th). Eventually we also want to have a bed frame built with drawers underneath, and another cabinet for the hallway, but that can wait.

And there's finally a ton more photos up on flickr. I still haven't figured out to get the cute collage without just making it manually in ppt or some other annoying thing. So I'll just suggest you head over to flickr and check out all the new lights, etc.