what i did today

As I mentioned in the previous post, we didn’t do the laundry room or hallway and only had 10 planks left.  So, I guess next on the list (after the baseboards) is tiling the laundry room.  Here are a bunch of pictures.

I’m realizing in some ways, these dark hardwoods are HIGH MAINTENANCE.  I don’t regret it at all but I’m having to sweep a lot more than normal!

I just realized a post I wrote from my iPhone didn’t actually post last night.  So here I thought you were all updated and you aren’t!   Here’s a quick run down…

• Scott finished the foyer late Thursday evening.
• Friday evening we went out with J&J and came home and caught up on Grey’s.
• Today him and I worked on the sunroom and FINISHED PUTTING THE HARDWOODS DOWN!!  And get this, we didn’t end up doing the hallway and we only had TEN planks left.  So we really didn’t have a choice in the matter.  OH and we didn’t do the laundry room either so I guess that’s going to be tile!!
• This evening we went about an hour away to meet a friend and her family for dinner and shopping.   We ended up waiting and hour and a half for a table at Outback!  It sounds painful but really we had a good time talking and catching up.  We also managed to squeeze in some shopping and the girls got several new outfits, dresses and even a pair of shoes.
• Tomorrow will be busy trying to balance the whole Mother’s Day thing.  Emma could not wait to give me the card she made me at school.  It was the sweetest thing ever.  I’ll post more on that tomorrow and also upload some pictures of the floors!

• Today was a tough day.  Or, at least from 12-4 was.  I had 3 girls under 5 here by myself while trying to work.   A few highlights include finding hot pink and black play dough in the carpet and Emma standing in her windowsill too scared to get down.  Let’s just say my blood pressure was up for the afternoon.
• Bible study got canceled today. Apparently everyone forgot it was bible study day and I called it quits when only 1 person had shown up 15 minutes into it.
• Our water went out again this afternoon delaying laundry, washing dishes, flushing toilets and washing hands.  Twice in one week is sort of annoying.
• Glad to see Jason go before Syesha after last night’s disaster.  I have never, ever seen such relief in a contestant’s face and demeanor after getting kicked off.  I’m hoping for a David against David finale.
• I still love my floors.
• Our dog doesn’t.  She has yet to walk on them.  She has spent all week either outside or on a rug right inside the back door.
• I guessed right on May being a great month for my OTH site. In the past WEEK I’ve made $350.
• Well, I can’t think of any better news than that right now.  I’m going to watch one more episode of Gossip Girl to get caught up and then go to bed.

Today another trooper came over to help Scott and they worked so well together all day and got the tricky kitchen done.  The only things left now are the foyer, which Scott is going to do on Friday and the sunroom which he’s planning to do Saturday.  Also left is the laundry room.  He left it alone because we’re deciding whether we want tile down in there.  Not sure yet.  Also, we don’t think we have enough for the hall and I don’t think Scott wants to deal with all the cutting around the bedroom doors and it doesn’t bother me not to do the hall so I think we’re going to leave the hall carpet. 

I’m really, really happy with the floors though.  It just looks completely different.  I keep walking around with my head down staring at them.  The ONLY complaint I have is that it shows every single piece of dust and dirt.  I’ll need to find the best cleaning tricks so we don’t go crazy nitpicking over the dust.

Anyway, here’s the kitchen.

From the garage door:

From the living room:

From the fridge:

And just in case you missed it awhile back, this House Tour post has some before pictures in there.

Um yeah, forgot to post about this but on Friday Scott and I were on the way to Mom’s and both mentioned a truck we saw for sale in someone’s yard. Well, let’s just say less than an hour, the guy had a deposit check in his hand. The guy brought it by after work today. Scott is going to get tags tomorrow. I have yet to actually take a drive in the thing. It’s just one of those things I felt peace about and knew it was the one. Dad felt good about it and Scott seemed excited so I hope it doesn’t disappoint! So here is the picture from the ad although I think it looks way better in person:

A busy, busy night but here’s some quick (but badly lit) photos.  The dining/living room is complete.

Yay!!  Last night we tore the carpet up.  And I loosely use the term "we".  D came by to help Scott take up the carpet and just for the record, I’m the one that got to clean up after them.  And of course I had to show pictures because hello?  It’s a makeover.

Here the first part of the carpet is coming up.

Emma and Lexi get freaked out when we tell them to be careful of nail and staples and Emma goes into "mother mode"

The carpet is up…

The plastic and red spongy stuff goes down.  You like that terminology??

And voila!  The first pieces of our hardwood go down!!

Yay!!

So our all-day event Saturday was our spring festival.  MIL ended up keeping the kids Friday night and took them downtown about 10.  I got there about 11 since I slept in from my late night of work the night before.  This festival thing was different than our previous ones.  This one was held at a really big walking park/playground in town.  They roped off part of the field and had a main stage and then booths all around the field.  The really limited who could be there and there weren’t annoying circusy-type things to buy and the food was provided mostly by local churches or community groups.  They had a local American Idol type contest, a magician and local bands playing.  It was really cool.  We were there until almost 9pm only leaving for about 45 minutes to pick Scott up from home after he got off.  Our church was able to make a nice chunk of change to help our youth go to camp as well.  So here are some pictures from the day…

Emma got fitted for a new helmet which they GAVE them and got to ride a bike through a course.

Lexi did too!

The park…

The food! That cotton candy is almost as big as her!

We watched the hot air balloon…

Said hot air balloon….

The magician.  He really made a rabbit come out of a hat.  I’m still trying to figure that out!

Then guess who fell asleep?

Emma hung out with Heather while we watched the band Parallel play

Here’s the concert….LOL.  That is HILARIOUS because it looks like absolutely no one was listening.  But really, there were a ton of people beside us and around us.  Parallel is an AWESOME band.  We grew up with 3 of the players including the lead singer and he is a fantastic singer.

Anyway, so that was the day.  It was perfectly 80 degrees and overcast and just fun to be hanging out at a park all day.