Doggies

Zoe, Maxie and Maggie have been somewhat neglected by us with all of this house work and they have pretty much had enough. Zoe has turned into a lap dog that curls her paw around our armas and locks us in place. She also will nodge me or give me a dirty look when I am on the computer. How can I resist this cute face

Maxie and Zoe during a big storm. Big chickens.

Zoe, knows were leaving again. Which I lost another pair of shoes. (Only mine)

Maggie May poutting because I would not give her, her favorite treat.

The Cabinets are in!!!

Well, the time has finally come for the cabinets. Talk about some obstacles! They decided to completely close are road the day the cabinets were to arrive. Luckily they the let the driver come in. The same day, the drywaller (Dave, awesome work by the way)was finishing up and Gabe was working on the gutters, the city workers stop by to tell us they hit the main gas line going to our house. YIKES!!! Good thing we don't have it hooked up to the house, yet!

So this was on Wednesday. Friday I took off of work to paint and had a visit by four Pit bulls, one coming up to me twice barking that I locked myself in the garage for a bit till I could sneak in the house to call the police. That was scary! Bad news is they live two houses away, which I don't think we are aloud four dogs so this should be interesting. But, my dogs were in the house and I am ok so I guess we are ok. But I am definitely getting a bigger fence and a gate over the driveway. Anyone know were to get a gate?

Friday afternoon Rich showed up and the fun began! We worked on the base cabinets till 1am.

Rich is like the energizer bunny and just keeps going. I couldn't, so I went home to the dogs and back we went in the morning.

Aaron and Jonelle came over to help with the Hanging cabinets. Here Aaron barely had to raise his arms, and Gabe is using everything in his short little arms to hold up the cabinet. HEHE.

Becky, was the Foreman taking pictures, and doing a good job watching us with her cute little pouch.

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Well, now the cabinets are in and the really hard part has started! Picking out tile and counter tops, YUK! After 4 hours of shopping I went home to drink. I can't wait till I can fill my new wine cabinet up. I already bought 4 new bottles:)

This Cabinet is my favorite!

Here is the other part of the kitchen. I love all the space.

Now, we just have to finish the floors and my cabinet!

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.