Damn, that's big!

So things are moving along at record pace, at least for out little project....

The fan in the living room, up and functioning...

Master bath is primed and the ceiling is done....
Borders are laid out in both rooms...

(Although after laying out all day, the look just as they did when I first put them out in the morning.)

Kitchen: Drawers, shelves and doors going on...

Start to the Lazy Susan, we have to have a counter top to mount it right.
Panel along the fridge is cut, shimmed and bolted in place...
Island is in place, all the cabinets are officially hung and mounted.

This is a huge kitchen compaired to anything I've every had, awesome!
Drawers in big island cabinet.

Wish us luck, we are going to start the floors tomorrow!

Adding to the rainbow...

Quick update:

Friday was spent painting the living room and entry way.

The first two coats of red paint ended up like this, lots of streaks:

But, the third coat was the cure.

The guys spent Fri night working on the kitchen, microwave and oven are in and working:
Fridge is in place and a good portion of the bottom cabinets.

The paint list is really short, YAY!

~Trim paint around the front door, coat closet and back sliding door.

~Re-touch wall color around the trim.

~One more coat on the outside of the linen closet.

~Doors: both bathrooms, office, master, and boys' room.

~Master bathroom: everything.

Pretty in Pink....

So a quick recap of our week so far:

The boys went over Mon night and hung the top cabinets. All the space issues work themselves out when the realized they were mixing up two cabinets. Yay!

Anyone have a good step stool recommendation?

I'll be lucky to reach the back of the bottom shelf!

The primer is all up in the living room and entry way, including the bubble gum pink base for the red! It looks like a princess party exploded in there.

The hallway is almost done, just waiting on one more coat of trim paint around the doors.

Gonna be a busy weekend! But the end is so close.

I have a song stuck in my head, but it won't work for this title...

Friday morning we discovered this:

Someone from some agency was nice enough to put a sign up so people would hit it. It's the second big limb to fall since we've been around.

See, big spot!

Then there are the big ass rocks in the yard, and a lot of the other yards in the neighborhood. Our rocks were hiding another stump:

Sunday, FIL attached a big rope to the rocks and to his van and drug them off of the stump so it could be ground down.

So today, the people from the tree place came and cut down the tree with falling limbs and ground down the two stumps. Nice! Now we just have to find grass that will grow all around so it's not such a barron mess.


In other news, the cabinets are starting to go up in the kitchen. This was FIL's progress for Monday, Keith was going back tonight to help finish the top cabinets.

We also discovered Sun that one of the cabinets we bought is too wide, covering the window on one side by about 1/2-3/4 of an inch. It's frustrating, especially because we had someone from Ikea come and measure out our floor plan to make sure it would work. We all missed it.

Look, the mirror is gone and the walls are primed! Yay, now I await the texture fairy.
This took me 45 min to tape up. Friggn' plastic was too heavy for the tape, it was big and awkward and everyone else was doing other things. But, damn it! No paint on the fire place!
Hallway awaiting it's final coat of paint:
Front bath is almost done, pretty new towel holder:
New towel bar:

And spit shined toilet re-installed:

Yep, we're over the hill and slowly creeping down. Are we there yet?

In non house related things:

Cody, Ty and I went to a birthday party on Sat evening for his buddy Lucas that we met through the gym. This is so hard for me because I didn't know anyone but the host family, but it was fun. They have some great friends that were easy and nice to talk to. Maybe even pulled someone over to the dark side of F.O. Preschool!

Ummm, yahh....

Look, no carpet in the living room! And if you could see it all, the walls are clean for painting. Other than the big monster mirror, it's ready for paint! YAY!

1st coat of paint around the master sink alcovey thingy.
Two walls of the shower are up, then they ran out of glue. Don't mind the missed cut on the top hole, it'll get fixed eventually.
FIL has given in to the fact that old looks awful on the new paint, so we went on a mini shopping trip Sun and bought new lights for the bathrooms. Pretty...

Also spent time scrubbing and putting on some outlet covers. Then I scrubbed the vent covers clean as well, only 2 will need paint.

Now I have to figure out how I'm going to paint the interior doors. We've taken them all off and they are in the garage, but the garage is full of crap, so it's hard to lay them out to paint. We don't want to lay them outside because of dirt/bugs/leaves getting on the wet paint. It will get figured out, everything else has!

Hopefully cabinets will be hung this weekend, along with slinging a little red on the walls.

Mom's flying in to ride home with dad tomorrow, so I'm going to enlist her help on hanging the borders in the boys' rooms. Those rooms will really feel finished then, of course minus the carpet, but you get the picture.

All in a weekends work...

The linoleum is cut and glued in the kitchen.

It's dirty, can't wait to see it without the dust.

Mutant green bathroom, yes it's green not yellow!

Can't wait for the shower curtain to get here and calm it down a little.

Keith's project, all the kitchen cabinets put together, minus 2.

Patiently waiting in the master bedroom.

The project list is shortening by the day!
Paint: Master bath and sink area
Hallway
Entry
Family Room
Doors
Flooring down in the Family room, entry and hall
Cabinets installed, then finished with shelves, drawers, doors and handles
Carpet
Counter top
Finishing:
Lights & Smoke detectors re-installed
Baseboards installed
Blinds up
Borders in the kids' rooms.
Move in!

See, we're almost done!

Fun on the 4th...

Our 4th was a good one. We spent the morning at the new house (where else would I be?) working on paint and figuring out the linoleum for the kitchen.

Once that was over we headed over to our friends for some BBQ, a dip in the pool and off to the mall for fireworks. It was a good time, the kids did well hanging out in a parking lot for a good hour and half waiting for it to be dark enough for the show to start.







We were doing well today, until Ty decided to be a stunt man and drive his push car off the step. The best fat lip and bloody mess we've dealt with so far! Way to go dude!

"You're seriously taking my picture?"

"Smiling because you said Ice Cream!"
"Mmm, Ice Cream for dinner...."

I've gotta pocket, gotta pocket full of sunshine...

Ohh ohhh......

Here's our progress from Monday:


Tues Dad went over and finished painting the ceiling and a did more primer in the front bath. We thought that the texture was done in the bath, but it didn't go well, so we did it again today.

Today also brought more color.

1st coat on the bottom of the toy/play room. LOVE IT!

1st coat of the kitchen/dining paint as well.

I'll have to get a room shot, there were too many people in my way today!

On a discouraging note, our A/C is out, actually the blower fan motor is out. So we are on the parts waiting list for about a week. UGH! I guess we'll be putting in some early mornings for a while.