What's been going on.

Our babies

The new baby

It is so little, I LOVE IT

Justin taking a stretch

Hail storm

from the hail

finishing up the tile, still not done

GETTING THERE!!!!

The ceilng in the bathroom is well on its way tobeing completed. One more coat and paint. look we have updated lighting. Whoo-hoo

this is what happens when Ryan gets bored.

Got 10 inches cut off, I think I lost 5 pounds.

Justin has put in the new sub floor ALL BY HIMSELF, what a trooper.

Ryan busy sanding our dresser drawers for our bedroom. What a guy.

Jack, laying around doing nothing but looking pretty as usual.

Look we have basebords. Justin was up until 3:30 last weekend. he would not stop until he was finished nailing every last one down. YEA! Now we can move into the basement.

they had to revamp the vent due to the wall now missing. Who knew.

for some technical reason, they had to remove the sub floor. Something aobut it butting up to the hardwood once we took out the carpet in the kitchen, Yeah, there was carpet in the kitchen.

another job with our awesome Fien Tool

I was out weed whacking when I look up and there is a little old man standing there stairing at me. I though he wanted to walk on the sidewalk so I stopped and apoligized. He said where is your husband. i told him my gracious husband was inside painting. he asked why I couldn't paint. I told him I had been painting for a solid month and ust wanted to be out int he sun. He smiled and walked away. About 5 min later he returned with these flowers from his garden. It was truly the highlight of my day. What a great neighborhood we will lie in!!

Fineto....just need to paint the ceiling

Where is my hot tub Obama?

To tape or not to tape? I pulled the tape off of the ceiling after trimming out the walls in the upstairs bathroom. The ceiling paint started coming off with the tape. I'll admit, I left the tape on way too long (2 Weeks).

No big deal, we are going to paint the ceiling anyway. BUT THEN, I started looking and the ceiling did not look right. THEN my finger went right through it! AHHHHHHH. Good thing I left that tape on so long. :-D

I cannot remember if I posted pics of the stairs. We still have to paint the risers and fill in holes in the wood. The lady who lived there before had a chair lift on the stairs. (I know Jack, i feel the same way)

Again, Joel you ROCK, you too babe! New carpet. No more cat pee-eww. Joel and Justin spent today ripping out the old carpet, cleaning the cement, putting down Killz, buying more padding, and putting this new carpet in.

Git r dun!

What a difference one weekend makes! BEFORE

After. I know the green looks bad, it is not. I just cannot work my camera at night. Please ignore the blue trim. Trim has to be the last thing to get done. I cannot wait!!

This does not even look the same as when we bought it. The wall by the fire place was dark brown paneling. It took forever and ever to get it painted correctly.1. TSP, 2. 2 coats of Killz. 3. 2 coats of paint. You cannot tell in this picture, but there is trim everywhere I ended up hand painting. I had taped it of, but when the tape came of, so did the paint.

OOOPPPS. The upstairs bathroom got way too dark. I am going to paint a design on the dark blue wall to lighten it up.

YEAH! No more pink carpet in the kitchen, tile is on the way. Joel you friggin rock!!

Someday they tell me this will be a kitchen island. I think they got bored with it or maybe I am supposed to be doing something I forgot about. That happens.

Justin's fab paint job in the kitch.

Check out the new paint in the kitchen

LOOK. The inside is coming together. Need to shop for cabinet doors.

Guest bedroom.

Ryan's room. He has decided to paint the top half green.

And also, the wood paneling is no longer brown.

Can't wait to tackle the fireplace.

Oh my goodness. Justin pulled off the carpet on the stairs. YES!!! More hardwood.

Oh yeah, They put in MORE recessed lights in the master bed room and the living room. The living room had no lights at all.

WOW, this might be a kitchen

We are moving along. Tearing down a wall leaves holes in the ceiling. We used a chalk box to draw a straight line. Justin then used his nifty Fien Multipurpose tool to cut the line straight. I do not know what tool you would use if you did not have one of these. If you are planning on rehabbing your old house or improving your new one, you have to get one of these puppies (it is a beast!).

Look, the top is on the island! Still plenty of room to open the kitchen and the door.

This is the front of the island in the kitchen. Because of the limited counter space the microwave will have it's own built in shelf in here. We got the idea from Justin's parents house. They have the coolest island I have ever seen and they have a built in microwave too. It is wonderful.

here are those 3 awesome guys hard at it! (LEFT TO RIGHT: Orlando, Justin, and Steve)