Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Our Kitchen
They actually showed up today to install the kitchen!! Yeah!! I cannot wait until it is completely finished. The cupboards were even nicer then I thought, which is always a bonus :) Tomorrow the installers (Steve and Steve, father and son, makes me laugh) will be done with their part of it. We were fortunate enough to stumble upon West Valley Ceramic for our tile. I believe we were working with Dana. She was GREAT! First person in our search for tile to sit there and take the time to help us find the right colors to go with our cabinets. We just kept a door off one of them and brought the whole thing in. She was able to help us find a nice tile for the floor, laminate for the counter and a back splash to help set off the counter. So, two more weeks and all that will be done! We will go talk to someone about carpet tomorrow. Painters come tomorrow also. Only a couple more weeks and it will mostly be over with. Not sure what is up with the siding guy. He showed up yesterday, stayed for a few hours then took off and we haven't seen him since. And of course we are experiencing a little hiccough with our water heater. The water comes out nice and hot for 30 seconds then turns lukewarm. We've turned the knob as high as we dare and still no hot water for longer then 30 secs. After talking with Tom today it seems a part upstairs may have been put in backwards or a switch of some sort left the wrong way and it's diverting the hot or cold water (not sure I get it) the wrong way. The plumber will be here nice and early, 6:30 am tomorrow, to fix it.
Posted by Christy at 10:13 PM 2 comments
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Cub Scout Day Camp
Cub Scout day camp was this past week. They have it at Camp Ireland in Hillsboro. Our pack this year got to be the Captains. I had the chance to go Tuesday and Friday. Tuesday wasn't so great. Too dang hot, which made me grouchy. Came home that night and ended up waking up with the stomach flu so I'm guessing I was grouchy from that too :) Friday was so much better. It was cooler and I felt like I could enjoy watching the boys this time. The boys, of course, all had a great time. Jonathan and Nathaniel both got bulls-eyes. Jonathan in BB Gun and Nathaniel in Archery. In fact they each got two, one on two different days. I'm very proud of them :) The following are a few pics of my boys from the days I attended. I will set up a slide show with more pics that include the other boys. If you see any like please feel free to copy.
Friday started with badminton. Nathaniel was off trying to earn another pin for Archery so I only have pics of Jonathan here.
Posted by Christy at 10:09 PM 1 comments
Labels: Cub scouts, Day camp, Jonathan, Nathaniel
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Little by Little
So, here are some photos with the sheetrock up and textered. Little by little it's starting to come together! Our painter is coming tonight with the primer so next week everything will be painted :) It's so exciting!
This morning we went on a three mile hike with what Webelos were in town. Elizabeth and Jonathan got to join us. Seth was in a backpack on Rob's back. The other three boys are Luke, Steven, and Sterling. We had a great time though everyone was pretty tired when it was over. We went up to the Hoyt Arboretum at Washington Park. Thank goodness it was shaded it was pretty hot out there! We have a great group of Webelos, I enjoy working with them.
Posted by Christy at 4:24 PM 3 comments
Labels: Cub scouts, hiking, House, remodel
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Catching up
So, thought I'd catch up on things since I've fallen behind. I don't get as much time on my laptop since I don't have wireless at the Gardiner's and if we are here Seth is usually asleep in the room with the laptop. When he's not asleep we are usually at the house working on it or waiting for an inspector.
Life is crazy right now. We do have insulation up at the house. Today they delivered the sheetrock and guys are actually coming tomorrow to start hanging it! We were a bit surprised at that since it is a holiday weekend. Sounds like they will be working the whole weekend. We were told, too, that if things continue along we may be done at the end of the month! Woohoo!!! I can go for that.
Here are pics to give an idea of what the downstairs will look like. Have to imagine the walls are done.
Stairs and entry to garage. LOVE IT!!
Went to the zoo last week with Grandpa and Uncle Shane. It was a nice day, not too hot, not too cold.
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