a catch up blog

I am back! I am sure you have all been wondering.....

I have been indisposed for a while. Last week I was in Arkansas all week getting my birth and postpartum doula training. And, I have been a bit technologically impaired. It seems that a lot of my electronic devices have decided to go funky on me. If I unplug and plug them back in, they all of a sudden start to work. Well, my camera has been one of those mysteries. I finally have pictures to share after a while of none.

This picture is Scott and his dad helping to clear the bamboo stalks so we can take down the chain link fence and put a wooden fence in its place. Problem is, the bamboo has deep, deep roots and we have to rent a mini excavator in order to get that job done. So, it is on hold for the time being. We have moved inside to for now.

Thanks to the HUGE help of my parents and two of my brothers, we were able to have a work weekend the weekend of Halloween. My dad is helping us tear of the 1/4 round in this photo. Some of it is bad and needs replaced and some (like in this photo) need to be placed lower. There used to be carpet over the wood.

My parents spent a lot of time in our master bathroom. We had to clear it all out. The fixtures are fairly new, but we had to take them out in order to tear down the nasty wallpaper. We will paint the bathroom and put them back in eventually. Thankfully the house has two bathrooms, so we can move in without having this all done.

I painted trim in one of the three bedrooms. After I got done, we decided that we should to a more serious sanding job before paining anymore trip and woodwork. Before I painted this room I had to clean, sand, and wipe down the baseboards. It was a big job that took me about five hours and that was just one bedroom!

Do not try this at home, repeat, do not try this at home!! Ha ha! This is what happens when your 22 year old brother gets ahold of you! Thankfully we put his "mop" to good use at our new house.

This is what it looks like after the bamboo is all down. Too bad they had to spend one whole day figuring out that we weren't going to get a fence built. After much effort to no avail, the dirt was much to hard for an auger to drill holes for the fence posts. That will be a project for another working weekend I guess.

Thanks to JH and my wonderful hubby! They spent hours shortening the cupboard to go above the fridge so it will fit in. They are perfectionists to say the least! Thanks for the hard work fellas!

Marissa and I went to the hospital to visit our friends Cristina and Kevin who had a baby in October. Dylan is so precious!

The sweet little family.
And last but not least, my week long trip to Arkansas. I had class Monday - Friday from 8am-6pm so I didn't get to spend much time with this gang. Thank goodness we will see them at Thanksgiving. Andrew is hilarious! He was telling us all kinds of stories beginning with "once aponce a time". He was even talking in his sleep saying stories. Of course I had to stay in his room, which was ok until he developed a bit of a cold and was coughing all night long. He woke me up at a little after 6:00 one morning and said "wake up Hannah, the sun is out" to which I replied, just five more minutes please. He then said "Hannah get up, it's six dollars." See, even he was too tired still!

Lots more coming. We will be putting much effort toward the house this weekend. We have been sanding for days. I keep telling myself that sanding is good. We had to buy 44 knobs for the kitchen cabints which is good, it means STORAGE. Our kitchen right now including doors and drawers has 12 knobs...teeny tiny kitchen. Once we get all the sanding done, we can start paining again and it will feel like we are making some headway again. Scott wasn't to get all the sanding done and everything wiped down really well before we paint. I guess these things just take time. I will try and keep an update of pictures. It is fun to remodel!

Night everyone, thanks for patiently waiting for my blog. I am busy these day. Oh, there are babies being born too, but that will have to wait until another blog on another day!