Home Improvement part deux....

So Saturday "we" started working again. And by we, I mean spouse and assistant...even though assistant requested over lunch to be called "helper" so I guess I'll call him helper...got started again on the flooring while the kids and I were running errands.

I had "requested" that they fix a gap left in the hall, and apparently that was easier said than done...by the time we got back, they had just gotten that part fixed, along with the threshold to our room done.

I got home, and another "helper" came by with his two kiddos, so me and the four kiddos played in our destroyed house. One of the boys is little...in the just toddling stage, and I carried him around some and realized I have forgotten how do things one handed. Anyway, I digress.

We had some pizza for lunch, and second helper left, so I was able to join in. I got to use power tools. Well, power tool I guess. I used a saw. Cool. Anyway, took me and assist...er I mean helper four forevers to do the last part of the hall, the area where there are three doors/thresholds.

Spouse was working in the kids room.

We finally finished the hall, and moved to the kids room to work. Helper had to leave, and spouse and I got it all done in the girls room except the very last row. By this time it was close to 8pm, and we were I'll admit it, too chicken to use the table saw in the dark. :-) So we stopped.

Sunday morning, I realized just how hard it was! I hurt in places I didn't know had muscles. Seriously!

Sunday after church, the wonderful fantabulous helper, volunteered to come back to help finish up the girls room and pop the baseboards back on with his fancy smancy new nail gun. That thing was cool by the way. Finished the closet in our room too, got the baseboards back up and our big furniture back in the rooms. Still have the thresholds to put in, but hey, so far so good! I LOVE IT! And very thankful we were able to do it. Had we know the future when we decided to do it, we might have postponed. One of those times I was glad the future wasn't revealed! :-)

And the good news is, Spouse and Princess are already having less allergy problems. Spouse's asthma hasn't acted up as much either.

Home Improvement?

Hmmm...home improvement....it looks so fun on TV.

Anyway, Spouse's allergies and asthma have been really bad lately. And we found out that princess probably has bad allergies too. The cat had scratched the carpet, and we 'discovered' some wood stuff under the carpet. Decided to pull it out, starting in the hall, and our bedroom.

Pulled back the carpet and found this stuff. And discovered it was water damaged near the inside unit of the Central Heat/Air. yeah. So it had to come up. NOT EASY

We were hopeful that it wouldn't have to come up in our bedroom... WRONG OH! Water damage in there too. This stuff is nuts! We can't tell if was laid in tiles or individual pieces. All I can say if it was individual, the person who did it has got to be nuts!!

So the stuff was pulled up, and yesterday spouse and assistant laid laminate down in the hall and bedroom, except for the doorways and around some sneaky corners.

We have the finish up work and repainting the baseboards to do in our bedroom, the doorways from living room to hall and hall to bedroom, and then we are going to start pulling up the carpet in the girls room. Hopefully, THAT flooring won't have to be removed...

Happy New Year!! 2009!!

Yeah, so we had an interesting New Years Eve. More about that later...but later in the evening, this is how hard we PAR TAY! :-)

Spouse at 1030

Punkin at 1030

Princess at 1030

Toby at 1030

Princess and I made it to midnight...and went outside and shot off a few fireworks with the neighbors. Shhhhh don't tell anyone!

In other news, Princess lost a tooth yesterday, so we are calling her toothless wonder. We had much discussion on whether the toothfairy would come if we stayed up past midnight. But for the record she did. I was afraid she would have already been through Pearl before we went to bed 9 ;). Maybe since it was New Years she delayed her flight....

And the kids STILL got up before 7. And I remembered we were out of coffee, and I forgot to get any yesterday...horror of horrors!

A little Karaoke....

Fun!

The song with the Elmo Shoes...these boots are made for walkin'. :-)
We really are having too much fun with this thing...good thing the video only records if there is a VCR hooked up.

Merry Christmas

The kids had a blast this morning with their presents. Here are a few pictures.
They must have been really good!


Their favorite gifts were Princess: moon shoes, & Punkin': the bouncy ball.

Too WARM FOR CHRISTMAS

At least in my opinion. Seriously? 77 outside today. So warm, with the cookie baking & sausage ball making, we had to turn the AC on! AC! Christmas Eve and have the AC on. I hope Santa packed some shorts & a raincoat.

Pictures of great cookie backing 2008

Now, time to go check NORAD and see where Santa is!

Gingerbread House

The girls and I put together a gingerbread house today, one of our traditions.

Tomorrow, cookies!