Isabelle's & Mommy's bday

Here are pictures of Isabelle's 8Th birthday. For some reason i didn't get a picture of my cake. Oh well, I didn't really cake for it after i made it. It was a Kahlua and coffee cake. Isabelle's was a to die for carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. I finally got the holes in our bedroom wall patched with dry wall , mudded & painted. Now if it would warm up so i can get the hallway finished.

long over due update

I know this is a long over due update. We have had a lot going on as you can see from the pictures. We also had 2 birthdays but that will be the next post. Mike decided to replace the grandma room floor/kitchen ceiling about 2.5 weeks ago. It hasn't been to bad except the kitchen is tore up again. The light fixtures had to be taken down so we have been using a floor lamp. And the large middle counter had to be removed that there is almost no counter space to prepare food.I'm hoping that will be back in place this week.

The first few pictures are the old flooring/ joists. The middle 5 pictures are Mike with help from Patrick & Brandon replacing joists and weight down sub flooring while Mike nails it in place. The last 3 pictures are the new joists and what you will see in the kitchen when you look up. We are leaving it open again and didn't want just sub flooring.

ok...back to work.....

Progress

Mike decided to replace the floor and joists in the gradma room. It all needed to be done and instead of waitig he's doig it now. We got the materials last weekend and i stained the joists on saturday and sunday. Mike got 3 of them i last night. This weekend i will get to the sub flooring when the wind dies down a bit. I have been painting in our bedroom still and am alsmost finished. The first 4 pictures are the floor in the grandma room and the hole in the kitchen. With the ceiling out there are not lights so we are using a floor lamp. The last picture is the wall i patched up this week and finished painting this morning. I will have more pictures when i can get Mike to upload them from the camera.

It's been cold

Some days are to cold to work. Over the weekend Mike was working on the electrical in the attic and I was painting in our bed room.

I finished half the room

Mike didn't get home til 7 so i worked and finished painting half of the grandma suite. Now he just needs to finish the other half so i can paint. I finished touching up the trim this morning. It's looking so pretty.

Happy New Year and Merry Christmas!!

Christmas was wonderful. The kids always say they love the things they get. This year the 3 older kids got new Mp3 players with 2inch screens. Isabelle, Mike & I got mp3 players that we got on Black Friday so they were a really good deal. Everyone got lots of clothes. It seems growth spurts hit everyone this year. We have invited my sister (and her kids), our niece and her new baby and my mom for Christmas dinner. The only one that showed up was Nana and we were so happy. She hasn't been to our house since just after we moved in. I showed her everything that we have done since then sat her down in the kitchen so i could finish getting dinner ready. It was a great meal and great company. Nana didn't stay long after dinner because it's a long ride if your not use to it.

The Saturday after Christmas we drove to visit Mike's mom and sister. (they bought a beautiful home in western Va) We were going to spend a few days but no one to watch the animals so we drove up and back in one day. We left Marissa there so we had to go back and get her. Mike, Isabelle & I drove back New Years day. (the boys stayed at my mom's)

We spent the weekend not doing a whole lot of anything. Mike did have to change the element on the hot water heater but that was about it.

Today the kids went back to school and Mike to work so i went back to working on the house. Today I finally got the grandma suite primed...window trim...ceiling trim and base boards painted. I'm hoping to get the room done by the end of the week...so Mike has to replace the door & dry wall 2 walls...

Still working

It's the week before Christmas and i know i should be shopping and wrapping and baking but there is a boy that is turning 11 tomorrow. He is so excited. We are having a few of his friends over on Saturday for red velvet cake and ice cream. Plus i though we would decorate some sugar cookies.
I did manage to get the juliette rails painted yesterday while it was 70 and sunny. Today is 60's and raining.
TTYL Kathie