Halloween Party and a Ticket,

So, Gabe's sister had a halloween party the weekend before Halloween. So Gabe, Myself and my parents all went. What an interesting start to our night. My dad went as beetle juice, he was so cute! My Mom went as a Gypsy and the teacher came out in her because she made a cheat sheet for her tera cards. And Gabe and I went as pirates. Well on the way out to Burlington we got pulled over, My dad was speeking oops. My Dad did get a ticket, But the funniest part of all of it was the cop was either weirded out or scared so he stayed back from the car. Since my dad looked like this.

Last weekend! was the floors.

Here's the spare bedroom.

So Jenni, and Jonelle came over to help me paint all the trim boards in the two bedrooms. It looked great. Yep, thats right it looked great. My dad and I started working on sanding the floors in the bedrooms, hallway and living room. My dad had me remove parts of the baseboards. so no I have to repaint the base boards. Bummer!

As far as it goes with the floors let me just say, Oh, my is that a work out. I have to say it is a lot of fun having these family times, but a lot of work and a lot of pain. I now know I have muscles in places I did not know still excited:)

The floors are getting there, a few moresanding jobs and some varnish and we weill be good. One more step to getting the house done. YEAH!!! Next comes the kitchen cabinets!

Doors, their every where!

So, all the doors in the house either had dead bolt locks on them, or they smelt really bad, so I baught new doors. And I stained them all by myself, of course with a little help from Gabe. The only thing is we can't put them in yet, so there are Doors Every Where.

It was kind of weird. I really enjoyed this job. I think I found a new hobby, so if you ever need anything stained, I'm your gale!

Painting on the other hand I can't stand.

What was I thinking!

I thought it would not be a bad project, what was I thinking! I am still not done!

So I decided, that I wanted the built in Curio to go back to the natural wood color like the rest of the dining room. Little did I know there are at least 4 layers of paint on it. Even though the cabinet does not look big, oh my what was I thinking. Luckily I found this great orange stuff that is a gel and helps remove the painting.

The inside of the cabinet is a different material, it was such a mess!

After Minnesota

Well, since we have been back from Minnesota we have been spending every weekend working on the house.

We finished demoing, and started putting the kitchen back together. Rich came and did the electric while we were gone and then we started putting in the insulation, and hanging the drywall. Gabe's Dad and my Dad helped with that fun project.

This is Gabe sealing himself in with the insulation.

Sam and Grace with Grandma

So, I was not there for this but it is so cute I have to share it.

The Minnesota Trip

The first weekend of October we went to Minnesota to see Mike, Alia and the kids.

My Grandparents went up there, my parents and us. We all when to the casino for dinner. And boy can those kids eat!

Sam's birthday was in September so we wanted to take him to get a build a bear, he was so cute he picked out a cheeta, named it Cheeta (takes after my brother) picked out pink bunny slippers and a really cool motorcycle for it to ride. Then we went to the amusement park in the mall of America. Uncle Gabe was the luckey one to go round and round with him. Except for a few that we all went on.

It was also Grace's baptism (finally) Alia had to cancel 4 times because of all of us. Sorry, Alia but thank you. Grace is a character she just smiles but she will tell you what she wants, she has a mind of her own, but man oh man does she have a great personality. At the baptism, she just wanted to play with the water and when we came back for a spaghetti dinner she told us she was hungry by sitting in her chair on the floor, it was so cute.

Sam did really good at the baptism and so did Sophia (she is such a cutie)

It was a very eventfull weekend because, on sunday my brother ran this 26 mile marathon, which as normal he did great at. After 26 miles he was still smiling. The year before in 95 degree weather that was another story.