Bathroom Remodel Done!

Was completed this weekend....
Here's the slideshow if you didn't get it by email.

The appraiser came yesterday and we have to finish the front porch to get the refi loan in action, that we know for sure, once his report is turned in, we'll have to verify the rest of the "little fixes". Wish us luck!

I will be working at the shop thursday and friday, so I won't be available, and the kids will be disbursed for trick or treating to their respective parents. :0) But there is nothing but work lined up for us. **Shaking my head** ho hum...i'm tired

Sneak Peek!!!

So the only one who has got a sneak peek at the project has been Phillis and Nikki! But it's not done yet, there are a few trim pieces that need to go up, and the window, yeah I'm tiling the window. It's been the dread of the whole project from the start and we knew we would have to do it. David is at work, and Grace is on Fall Break today and Monday so four day weekend with the kids! :0) ***The secret to the tiling of the window...when David is still contemplating a project, more like not wanting to go there...he procrastinates...I just tackle it. So he's coming home today to a tiled window. LOLOL.. works out wonderfully! That way he doesn't have to stress anymore about it...and my bathroom can be done, and we can get on with our lives. LOL Wish me luck!

Kevin has already been dressed up in a dress and a pink cowgirl hat, with cowgirl boots, and clip on earrings....very studly, yes and I got a pic on my cell phone! LOL As Myles said, great bribe material when he is older! LOL

Collecting paperwork up for refinancing of the house. And I have to fax that today. It's almost noon...so maybe the window won't be completely tiled. Oh who knows. Wish me luck all! And in a few days, you are going to have some pictures to look at, or maybe you should just schedule to stop by. LOL

Life

So it's a few days away from being a month long bathroom remodel, and I have walls. I have been working feverishly to finish mudding the drywall. It has been just a really busy few weeks and the bathroom has went by the wayside, but as you can see by Tera's wedding blog. It was well worth all of it.

We are laying the basecoat of paint down as different sections of the drywall mud drys and we have a ceiling, and it's all painted except for one corner! Mind you if I post pictures of the bathroom, the color is not what it is going to be but it was spare paint we have a lot of and it works out nicely as a base paint. :0)

I'm excited to get the finals done and there are lots of suprises in store. And to see it coming together David and I are getting really excited. The past few days have been slow in progress also, since Grace has had a half day of school, and that has thrown me into yet another loop.

Half days due to parent teacher conferences! My gifted and talented child has made it into the AB honor roll after her first two week scare of trying to lie and turn in her homework not done, which received her an F in all her subjects except math. :0(

When they do work in this class, it incorporates almost every subject, so she has to be careful about slacking and focus much more. It's hard to recover from an F, and her social studies and science class grade was sitting at C's for a while there. :0( But she got it, and I couldn't be prouder of her!

I have had a busy schedule this week with helping take care of Tera and Myles's "kids" (The cats Nikon and Piper). But I've managed to get stuff done. I just can't wait until I can reorganize my bathroom and my life again. The house is a shambles and there is drywall dust EVERYWHERE. Ho hum...drives me nuts but we are going to get it done.

David and I make a fantastic team when it comes to getting things done. And as you can tell emails and blogs have come few and far between, I haven't had much time to log on and do a lot of stuff. But in most cases I have managed to fill people's emails with forwards when I can!

Wish us luck on the bathroom. We are headed to Indy tomorrow afternoon to spend Saturday with Nikki. To celebrate another year getting older, and how much wiser, and beautiful she is getting. ( Although she denies it ) Beauty comes with age. :0)

The wedding is over!

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Click on the link...it will take you to the link of the slideshow of Saturday a.m. Prep. LOL

Okay so the events of last week were just tiring in itself....so where have I been?
On the Wednesday I was doing some final stuff with Tera, started packing favors...on Thursday well...I was working on Groom's cake Wednesday evening, then on Thursday I went to Tera's for some more stuff, took her mom to do a trial run on her hair, then went back home...took a little short nap and got up at 3 a.m. to finish the Ferrari Cake, which ultimately squashed into a lamborgini...but none the less Myles loved it, and it made an appearance at the wedding too, because..NO ONE ATE IT!!!! LOL Friday was half day for Grace but we managed to get our nails and pedicures done, just Darsha (Mom) Tera and I. Dawn was having allergy issues and stayed at her hotel, and well Stephanie just needed some sleep because she flew in from Hawaii and was having some jet lag. :0( Needless to say it went off without a hitch though. I ended up having my mom rescue me from tripping over my gown at the wedding by doing some pin tuck stitches. THANK YOU MOM!!! FOR ALL YOUR HELP!!! Grace stayed with her so Emily and Josh could bring her to the wedding. Kevin stayed with David and those two handsome men arrived at the church on time in their tuxes. Although he had a struggle with having to wear daddy's black socks...he preferred his white ones to keep his legs warm. There's a photo where Tera is in my truck talking on my dead cell phone which was plugged in, to convince him to wear Daddy's socks...(cuz ummm it's the only thing that mommy had forgotten to get him). LOL

Sleep deprivation was my goal...not really but that's how it happened for EVERYONE! And it was a blast. Many pictures to be seen...but since I was in it...go figure there are none of the group or the wedding, just the pre getting ready stuff and the reception and what nots... :0)

I met a twin of mine who lives in Washington. And Tera wasn't even kidding when she said so. Dawn, which you'll see in the pictures. She's same height, personality, just about amazing how uncanny it was. Even Dawn's son Andrew walked up to her and asked her when she got a tattoo on her back. LOLOLOL...Yeah she's the same height and build. Kevin her husband even discussed that with David, just how freaky it was. So now, with fingers crossed, we are hoping that Kevin and Dawn move back home...because Tera and I will have the third musketeer...and we would literally be inseperable. Dawn and her two kids....which amazingly enough Ashley is one year older than Kevin, and Andrew I think is a little older than Grace. We've decided that Ashley and Kevin will definitely make a great pre arranged marriage and some simply beautiful grand babies! LOLOL....But as parents we can only hope.

There are 213 photos that I am currently uploading for all to see, I'm hoping to set them up into a slide show so it's easier for viewing. :0)

I'm glad that it is now done, and we can get back to the bathroom that desperately needs our attention. With the market being the way it is, and all, David and I are pressing to get things done, so we can refinance so that just in case our "new president" doesn't rescue our economy, we will be secure in knowing that all is well. :0) I want to be able to stash some major cash, so that David can retire...and well you've seen the stock market....where are your retirement funds going to end up? See that's what I'm sayin'....no good right now.

I had some major camera issues throughout the whole thing. First it was Grace's camera that mom bought, apparently Grace dropped it while it was open because it kept reporting a lovely lens error and hence I disovered that it wouldn't zoom in or out because it was cockeyed...then I had mine, so I had to buy batteries for it, but in some cases it took some bad shots, and in others not even visible, and then even others were just simply perfecto....so I don't get it. Myles will have to teach me because apparently it's operator instead of camera...I prefer to blame it on the camera though. LOLOL

Oh and a little other snafu...while the bride and groom are on their honeymoon I am watching the house and the cats. :0) But when they got home on Sunday part of their ceiling in their kitchen is now lying on the counter and the floor...so yet another project for Myles and David to tackle...we are not sure of if it's just the water damage from years ago when they moved in or if there is yet a leak to be repaired. It seems our work is never done. :0(

The drama sets forth...

Well the bachelorette party was not a huge success, it entailed a big fight between Tera (the bride) and her other maid of honor (Ann) which she has now pulled herself and her daughter from the wedding. I'm glad Tera had two of everything, two maid of honors and two flower girls..so guess what. She has backup and it's no big deal.

The bathroom is temporarily on hold until the events of the week are over with, and hopefully by the time their honeymoon is over, we'll have the bathroom done, so Myles can come and use it the following week...just in case he wants a vacation from his vacation/honeymoon. LOLOLOL Just kidding..but seriously. I'm hoping we get it all done soon!

I currently finished 14 lbs of chocolates for the wedding favors which I will feverishly work with Tera to get packaged up and ribboned tomorrow with the poems attatched. I still have to pick up David and Kevin's tuxes on Thursday, and finish the grooms cake I am working on. :0) Then make it to Tera and Myles for Thursday evening meets and greets and then prepare the fammily for Friday. Grace gets out of school half day thank goodness, but David still has to work until five and they are down to three techs. :0( I pray he makes it to the rehearsal early but we know it will not be on time. But he does not have a difficult job. It's the training of Kevin that will be worse than anything. LOLOL

Then it's off to the rehearsal dinner where I'll have the cake to deliver also. :0) I'm torn into a million pieces on everything I have to do, but that's okay. We love Tera and Myles, they are the bestest friends and people anyone could ask to have in their lives, so if they make my life a little hectic now and then, that's okay, cuz we do it to them too. LOL David and I could not be happier helping them in any way we can.

But hopefully Myles still doesn't have to worry about coming out to help work on the bathroom when he gets back from the honeymoon. I want it finished so he does not feel obligated to do so. :0)

Into the Blue Lagoon....

Okay, so where have I been you ask? LOL Good question. Many of my beloved blog followers have asked why I haven't been blogging much lately. Where do I begin?

I don't even remember what I did last week...it was that crazy...or the weekend. Oh yeah that was Myles' Birthday on Saturday, so we took him to dinner....Kevin has started another phase of NOT EATING, he'll sit with a plate of food and nibble for two hours and not be done, last night was three, with no TV at all and starting at 6:30-9:30 well needless to say he went to bed, and no television, and he didn't finish his dinner. Today on the other hand, he couldn't stop eating. LOL I just don't get kids and their growth spurts.

Myles and David are hard at work in the bathroom again this evening. I'm not much for the stuff up until finish work, so I helped with deconstruction...reconstruction is another process, and then finish work, like mudding and taping the drywall and stuff, yeah that's my line of expertise...and then I get to paint, trim and all that jazz. I still don't have a vanity in there yet...I have it in the middle of my living room floor, and no mirror, I still have to purchase that. I have all accessories for the bathroom at this time, but geez...I can't do anything with them.

The Blue Lagoon...is my nickname for the bathroom at this time, no one sees my vision and no one can see my bathroom in my head and the guys have NO IDEA, they have a concept of mechanics but that is it when it comes to this bathroom. LOL But right now, the protective coating is on the tub surround and the moisture proof drywall is blue, so yeah it looks like the bathroom is blue, umm...but you are all soooo wrong. LOLOLOL And I'll take pics of it up until it's time to do finish work, and then well...when it's FINISHED...completely. I'll make you all come to visit me just to see what Myles, David, and I did to our bathroom. LOLOLOL
Myles said with all the complications and dramas we've had with it, he was going to come and bath at our house for at least a week. LOL...and that's the honest to goodness truth, I think he would.

Oh and the pic of Myles on the ladder, the man is so decent, that he'll never have plumbers butt a day in his life, but for humor...I got his "plumber's belly" while he was hanging drywall. LOL

I don't know what we would do without such wonderful friends. Tera and Myles are getting married next weekend..and this weekend well it's no kids, and bachelorette and bachelor party weekend. David is skipping out to work on the bathroom, staying home, and well I, I will be following Tera around like a lost pup.

I've been working hard on making their favor chocolates for their gifts at the wedding. And I also have been working on a long standing "private" project, that is indeed very important and special for me to get done, but if I told you what that was too...well then you all would know and some just shouldn't right now. LOLOLOL

I've found myself also spending lots of time watching the stock market thanks to Myles, and sitting in front of my sewing machine. Yeah that has been fun, mending a pair of pants for Tera, hemming my old jeans for Grace to wear, because well, let's not deny it, I put on a little poundage, and she can wear those for now. But soon enough I'll be back in them! *Fingers crossed* (I hope) :0p

Wishing you all well and lots of Love!