The drywall

The drywall is almost done. Thanks to hubby for all the hard work, cause you know I had nothing to do with it. I keep asking him if he needs help, but the manly manly that he is keeps refusing my help! Oh well, I am glad that he knows how to do that kind of stuff. It would cost a lot more to hire someone to do it. Well, pictures to come.......hopefully I can start priming, painting, laying flooring and finishing that darn room soon. The worst part is coming home from work every night and working on the room too and staying up on all the other household chores....oh well.

Remodeling!!!

When my husband and I were on our honeymoon (2 years ago) we thought, hmmmmm.....we should buy a house. So that's exactly what we did, the next week! At the time we lived in a large home in Heritage Hills, right next to the mayor. We loved that house, so we wanted to get something like it, but in our price range. So we went out and found and old home not too far away. It has all hardwood floors, original woodwork and lots of character. Little did we know, that the previous owner did a lot of work on the home, but didn't do most of it right. Lucky for me I have a father in law with lots of building experience (and the tools to do it), and a husband that has the knowledge and works at an architecture firm. So we jumped on in and started doing projects. One by one we fixed and fixed and... well you get the picture. Every $10 project was $50 and every $50 project was $200. Finally though, we felt like we were making progress. Until recently... A tile fell off the wall in the master bathroom. Something behind it was black and furry......Apparently the person before us had mold and decided to cover it up with tile. The tile was done to look like wainscoting, and appeared to be fine (it was just a really ugly bathroom anyone can clearly see that....oh, the yellow!!). To our defense we did work on the bathroom last year. We painted it and added new light fixtures and towel bars etc... I really liked the aloe green bathroom. Oh well, so back to the current story, we now we have to go and buy a mold testing kit and find out what kind of mold we have. Fifty five dollars and 48 hours later the mold test results come back and it's not good! Apparently it is pretty common in older homes especially in bathrooms to have mold. Our homeowner's insurance doesn't cover it, but our agent told us explicitly what we have to do. It sounded like a whole lot of work, so Scott checked with some guys at work, and they said the same thing as our agent. So off to Lowe's we went. Our list consisted of a tyvek suit, respirator (everyone said to never clean mold out without this), plastic sheeting to close off the room, large and triple thick trash bags and anti-mircobial bleach. Well, that is just the beginning.....Since our house is older there's no drywall, the walls are all plaster. So we had to break out the sledge hammer and crow bars and tear down the walls. Right down to the studs! Then and only then are you supposed to clean with the bleach. This is how you get rid of the mold. Hmmmm makes sense I guess, just start all over. So this is my bathroom...(see below) for now. I have company coming from out of state in 3 weeks, so I am in panic mode today (I tend to worry too much). Well, at least we are done demolishing what was left of an ugly bathroom and now it is time to start the drywall. So I can at least say something was done right from the begining in this house! As for me I am stuck to using the 1/2 bath and the stand up shower in the basement!

Extreme Chicks!!

Well, maybe not that extreme....This is the group of women for the, "girls trip 2006". I am very lucky to be a part of this group. You see, my husbands sister, makes this whole thing possible. She is probably the most generous person I know. Every year the group talks about where in the U.S. we would like to go, and then Chris (the sister in law) makes it all happen. This year the mile high city had us coming their way! There is one activity planned that is usually something most of the group has never done. This year it was white water rafting. We had a great tour guide, and the rafting company we went with was so organized! http://www.raftecho.com/colorado-rafting-trips/raft-n-rail/ We spent 2 hours going down the river (it had rained before we arrived in Colorado, so the river was up and extra crazy). Then we had a nice lunch on the riverbank. After that, we changed and hopped on a train and went through the mountains. It was awesome!! I have never done anything like that before. All is well, no one fell out of the raft, not even my mother in law. Cathy my other sister in law, and I must have steered that raft ok! Way to be daring girls!!

Well this is it, I finally set up my blog....................hmmmmmmm......what to start writing about. Oh, well. It will come to me eventually. This is me....and my Angel. She is my baby. Lucy is my black cat, he of course is not in this picture. Yes, I meant to write Lucy is a he....yeah...