Thanksgiving in a construction site

Our goal was to move into the house by Thanksgiving and host family. Since we had given notice at the apartment, moving by the end of November is imperative. With construction delays, we’ve missed our Thanksgiving deadline and as you can see, in the image below, we’ve unloaded one of our storage pods into the house and covered our belongings with tarps.

Front of our house with the paper lantern installed.

Even though we weren’t able to host family, it was important to us to make Thanksgiving dinner for ourselves – even if we had to work around boxes and use the washer and dryer, which is not installed and sits in the middle of our kitchen, as our kitchen island.

Our first Thanksgiving dinner at our new house – a construction site.

The house at night – after Thanksgiving dinner – with new lighting that shines up on the house.