Ta-dah!

For those of you who actually KNOW how to do home improvement projects, or maybe really just love plumbing disasters, here's what we spent all our money on:

Thrilling, no? Sorry the pics are leaning to one side... so is our basement. And me, with 21 lbs of baby weight on me, I might occasionally list to one side, too.

It's funny. D and I are really pleased this project is done, but it's sort of anticlimactic. I mean, it's not a project you drag your friends to your house to see. "Look at our new pipes! Look at that concrete! Isn't is great?" I assume that when we get our first whopper storm and our basement stays dry that we will send up shouts of praise to the good Lord above. But right now... it's just kind of... there. After weeks and weeks of the wettest weather ever, we've had tons of sun and dry weather. Which means I'm still fervently praying, "Lord, please keep our basement dry. Please show us that this project accomplished what it was supposed to."

The basement bathroom looks exactly the same as before. We've got some work to do there.

Speaking of, it's sort of sad how often David and I utter those words. I never thought our cute little house would offer us so many problems. I calculated how much money we've spent in home repair (exterminator for the carpenter ants, central AC, new windows, new front door, insulation in the attic, attic fan, redecorated bathroom, overhead sewer, new sump pump) in the 10 months we've been here. Let's just say we could have been paying off a LOT of our mortgage with that cash.

But those problems existed, so thank goodness the Lord provided the money to pay for it all. I am grateful. No more house stories for a while, I promise.

On another note entirely, Baby Girl Yeager appears to be training for the Olympics while she passes time in the womb. I'm midway though week 28 and getting bigger every day. It's really fun to feel her move about - it makes me wonder what the little person inside me is like. More on her later.