Good News Maybe...

I remebered that I shot a video tour for my Grandma and Picasa allows you to take snapshots from video. So here are some before pictures of the bathroom. They don't capture all the grossness but they at least give you an idea of how much things have changed.

The Bathroom

Sorry I don't really have before pictures. Lets just say it was very gross.

The Kitchen Revisited

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Isn't it so much better? My husband is very talented! You may wonder why we remolded the whole kitchen and the answer can be summed up with one word... cockroaches. They were everywhere. Dead, thank goodness, but still everywhere. Their little bodies were in the cabinets and behind the cabinets and in between the cabinets. I didn't have a kitchen for a couple of months but it was worth it. The kitchen still needs a little finish work but it almost done and I love it, especially the cut out.

Allergic to Baby Showers

Me that is not David. I am apparently allergic to baby showers. I missed Sam's because I was in labor with Sam. This Thanksgiving my wonderful family was going to have a baby shower for David but I got sick. :( So Chris picked up the presents a couple days later and we had a little shower at home. It was fun and David has lots of really cute new things and lots of diapers! :)

Snow A Few Weeks Ago

David's New Room

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After This room was like our room, gross and smelly. Also, it used to have a closet. We may add one eventually but for now David doesn't really need one. We knocked out the old closet with help from our friends Randy and Persephanie. Randy scrapped all the popcorn off this ceiling and our ceiling. Chris re textured this room's walls and ceiling and painted. He also put a new window sill and we replaced this carpet too. Oh I almost forgot. The door in this room is also new as is the handle. You may have noticed the door still needs paint and trim but that's ok I love this room.

Our New Room

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So what the pictures don't tell you is how bad the carpet smelled and how it was covered with stains. Also, the walls were gross and and the ceiling was popcorn texture. We got nice new carpet, Chris re textured the walls and the ceiling, and painted. Also, the window sill was made of cheap Styrofoam and is now a nice white marble. The door to the bathroom and hallway are new and so are the handles. I love my new room. It is great and at least twice as big as the room we were staying in in the basement.

Baby David

The Kids

The Bathroom

I don't have any pictures of the nasty bathroom. But trust me it was very bad. This is Chris' next project before the baby comes. He has it all cleared out of the old nasty stuff and fixed the plumbing. Now he just has to tile, and sheet rock, texture, put in a sink, shower walls, etc. I'll put up a picture when he is done.

The Kitchen

I wish you could tell in the picture how gross this all was. But this picture lies and the old kitchen doesn't look gross like it in reality was. Chris found cockroach bodies in one of the drawers and when we pulled out the cabinets there was a bad smell and little cockroach bodies lining the backs and sides of the cabinets. Also, the cabinets were the cheapest you can buy, nothing but particle board and laminate. So Chris tore out everything including the floor, re-tiled, re-built the wall, added a cut out, put in great cabinets, a sink, and now my kitchen is very nice. He still has some finish work to do but it's close to being done. Yay!

Aspen

Finally a new picture

For the Faithful Few

Hi to the people who still come by every once in awhile to see if I have posted anything new. We got rid of our Internet last month and so that is why I disappeared. I originally thought I could post from the library. Ha. I think I was in denial. Why else would I think I could blog with my two and a half year old and one year old? I miss you all in blogland and hope your doing well. God bless you.