Tax Refund Spent or Finishing the basement

We've made HUGE strides this past week in working on the basement. We started last Friday with a trip to Menard's. Here's the stuff all boxed up...



And yeah, we had to take every box down to the basement by hand. Well, I helped. Jeff did most of it. Can you say, cardio!? So then, we/he started hanging the grid for the ceiling.



I was behind the scences cutting ceiling tiles to fit. It was cheaper to by the 2'x4' tiles and cut them than to by the smaller size. That was a lot of cutting! But well worth it, a sample was exciting...



But the finished ceiling was so cool! It's starting to look like a room!