Yay for Home Improvements!! I can hardly believe we did it, best decision we've made in like FOREVER! It's a lot to swallow but once you start you'll never go back. So lets rewind to before we started.

Before 

This is the best picture I have our nasty carpet floors..maybe thats a good thing!{cutest kid ..I KNOW RIGHT} It was pretty bad and as you can see mid-2012 our sweet Kallie was learning to crawl so it was time to pull it up! With the help of my mom we started checking the price of hardwood floors. She is the "Expert" on DIY stuff!

We shopped around and Lumber liquidators had the best price for engineered wood floors.I was a total sceptic at first I must admit. All the samples were lighter than the displays.. I didn't get it. Apparently wood changes colors with exposure to sun. I finally got it after I rode around with a sample on my dashboard of my car for a week {helpful advise form the guy at Lumber Liquidators} I truly understood .All because I didn't believe him... but he was right believe it or not. So we finally decided on Brazilian Cherry. 

 We placed the order and a week later it was in and I was a bundle of nerves. My husband Eric, his dad and our best friend Brett were laying all the floor. My Father in law was the only one who knew how to install it, but thank God the boys learn fast! They had to rip out the existing hardwood in the foyer and laminate in our kitchen so it would all be one seamless floor from the front door through the living room to the kitchen. 

After a couple of hours it looked like this. At that point i was kinda scared Im willing to admit but I had faith it would all be done that weekend. Kallie and I made ourselves busy!Lets just say thank God for grandparents..lol my Mother In Law had kallie friday and majority of the day on saturday but other than that we hung out in her room and played or had Oreo's in her highchair! Anything to stay out of the way considering we only had a weekend to get it finished.

After

I can hardly believe it turned out this AWESOME! I let out a BIG sigh of relief even if kallie proceeded to unload all her toys! After all it was the whole reason we changed it up. I would recommend Lumber Liquidators for sure, they were really helpful AND knowledgable. They gave us so many options and helped us eliminate things like "floating floors" even deciding on glue versus padding. Im just so glad were done and im sure our debit card is glad too!!!  

Are you sold yet? Whats holding you back..?