Has it been a month??

Wow! I guess it has. E went to his dads for two weeks. Jenn and I spent a week on vacation while he was there. We got back okay. Got back into a routine and school started this week! Whoa! Jenn and the boys all in classes. Both the boys are full day this year! Wahoo! Jenn doesn't have class on Fridays so she is home today trying to put the house into some semblance of order!

I have been busy busy at work with getting the new fiscal year started. I think I am finally finished up with FY 2007 stuff and have FY 2008 in order and going. Yay!

We got new windows on the house last week and this week they started residing it! I am so stoked. It is beautiful! I will post a before and after when they finish.`

FRIDAY!

Yay! It is friday! I am so glad. It has been a LONG ASS WEEK! With so many little fires to be put out at work recently, I am just very excited to have the next couple of days off, in fact, it's three, because we have President's Day off!

I have new towel bars, hooks and a toilet paper holder to put on, in the full bath this weekend. I also have blinds to put up in the sun room. I hope that it isn't going to take me all day. I am planning on coming to my office on Sunday or Monday and painting it. Whoopppeee... I am excited about having it another color (instead of this drab, dirty, flat blue) but I really dread painting it.

E has bball practice tonight and a game tomorrow morning at 9:45! ugh. but at least it will be over with early. There is a Chinese New Year Festival out at the gold dome on 23rd and Classen that stars at 10, so I was thinking we might check that out (if it is warmer than the 12F with icy winds that we are having right now).

So, yet another busy weekend, and I have to get some rest, too. I am beat.

Remodeling

We have been remodeling the house in full force since the first of Jan. It is amazing what all we have done. We have half the house repainted, ripped out the carpets and put down wood floors, and we got new living and dining room furniture - and are working on something for the den.

This week, we will have the halls and kitchen painted, and maybe the full bath. We also are having a new toilet and sink put into the full bathroom. Yay!

Then we will only have the bedrooms and the sun room and we will have a completely "new" house. It is amazing!

The painting was finished in the den, dining and living rooms the week before. The wood floors were put down last week. He finished it at 8pm on Friday night so that the furniture for the dining and living rooms could be delivered on Saturday. Yay, despite the weather, they delivered it!!

It just looks stunning! It looks so new and not at all like some old house from 1938!

Now I have to go in and paint (white) all the trim in the hallways and back bathroom. Then the painter can come back and do the walls in both halls, the bathroom and the kitchen. I am also going to replace the toilet and sink in the back bathroom.

The front bath is another story. It is pink tile (floor and 2/3 of the walls) and I just want to get rid of that, so it will probably be a project for later on. But we are getting there.Then I want to tackle painting the boys room and their play room. Then the master bedroom and the sun room. It is a lot to do, but I hope that by this time next year, we are finished!

Home Remodeling

We have started our "project"! Thanks to the Home Depot cards I got for Christmas, we have started painting the house. The dining room is almost finished. It looks INCREDIBLE! We are doing all the woodwork white and the dining room is a merlot color. It is just beautiful! I think it will be done tonight and we are starting the living room too. Jenn is at home now painting the baseboards and her uncle is coming over after work to help her and to put a coat on the living room. He says he thinks it will only take one coat! Yay! (he is a professional painter). I am so excited about the way the house is looking. The floor people are supposed to call today with the estimate for putting down wood floors in the den, living and dining. Yay!