My new floor

Yesterday I woke up, walked out of my bedroom and smelled our carpet.  It has been very humid here and when it is humid the carpet stinks like dog pee (not my dogs) and dirt.  Since it is supposed to be humid all summer long and the carpet hasn't been changed since we moved in I decided that walking out of my bedroom every morning and wanting to throw up from the smell was not an appealing idea.  So, I did what I always do.  I called Rob and said "just so you know I am tearing out the living room and hallway carpet today."  An hour later he was home and said "I know you so I took two vacation days." 

Here is the living room and hallway with the underlayment down.  I would have taken a picture of the carpet but it wasn't a pretty sight.



Here is our kitchen and computer room with all of the living room stuff.  Needless to say we had takeout for lunch and dinner.

Here's Rob working hard to put the flooring in

 Of course, all day the weather was like this

 Taking a quick break to eat dinner

At the end of the evening we had this much completed

 Bright and early this morning he was up and doing it again

 The best part of the day for Rob - putting the last piece down

 The finished floor by the stairs

 and by the bedrooms

Then it was time to put the trim back on and touch up the paint

The completed hallway

Now, I'm going to go off topic for a minute and show you what happened to my couch.  One of the children who I won't name but his initials are A.C. put the bleach bottle on my couch instead of on the floor.  Apparently he thought my couch needed a little something to make it look better. 

Alright fine, it's not a big spot and it is on the back of the couch but I still think it means I need a new black leather sectional to fix it.  If I get closer it looks bigger and then you'll see my point of view

Ta-da.  The new and improved living room (it'd look better with a black leather sectional with reclining seats and a pull out couch).  What do you think? 

Yeah, I think it needs a new couch too.  Great idea.  Thanks for the suggestion

Color please!

Could I get some color please?

That's better!!

Now, how about a new bed?

Much better

Umm, a million dollars?

Hello, anyone still there?  anyone?

Here's the snow

I thought you might want to see our snow.  We didn't get a whole lot - only about 5 inches but just in case you thought you were missing out I am sharing it with you.  In fact, if you want I will send it all to you.

Here's the view from the front door.  See all those footprints?  Those are from the kids playing in it this morning.  They have a snow day today due to the ice and the temps

This one looks a little funny because I took it through my bedroom window rather than go outside.  I just wanted a picture of the branches on the trees bowing to the ground under the weight of the snow

This was taken from the deck

I like the angle of view on this one.  Looks kinda cool doesn't it

Same with this one.  A dark sky peeking through the bare branches is a perfect winter scene

Hannah's new room

Hannah has a new room - again.  This time she is downstairs where the new family room was.

Here is a view of her room from the family room.  Isn't her new bedspread cute?

We are planning on getting a dresser eventually for her and it will go right in that corner

Right now there's only an open closet.  Again, we're waiting till we have more money to put up a closet door.  But at least she has a closet

Here's the view from the corner where the dresser is going to go looking back into the family room

Firepit patio

We finally got a patio for our firepit.  Two days were spent working on it in temps of 90+ degrees and 60% humidity.  But, it was worth it.

Here "we" are digging out the area for the bricks.

Hey, don't blame me....someone has to take the picture

All cleaned out and ready to go

O.k, got our rocks, got our sand, and working on the bricks

All finished.  See that wasn't so hard

Now we get to enjoy the fruits of our labor.

Look out smores, here we come