And then there was a floor

I don't even know what to say................................... I think it speaks for itself

Cabinets & Flooring here we come

So all of the major construction is done. Kent & Erik went and picked up the cabinets last Saturday. It's amazing how I just happened to be out of town when the cabinets arrived :)

The cabinets are stored in the garage, the front porch and some in the house. For as big of house as we have it seems like we are running out of room to put things!

So before we could get the flooring installed we had to finish up removing the old floor. What a lot of work.

It seemed like there was no end to the old flooring. Also the bowl in the background is where a valve was bad and leaking all over. Kent had to get that fixed BEFORE the flooring was put in.

Just when we thought we were almost done getting the flooring ready we realized we had our all parquet flooring in the entry hall. It took Kent a full days work to get this up and all of the glue scraped off.

Finally we put new plywood down every where to make the floors ready for the Hardwoods. Kent worked so hard on this!

By Sunday night we were ready to go. The flooring was level (well as level as it can get) and I swept up and picked up all of the tools.

Monday morning Jasmin started installing the floors and they are beautiful! I just luv to look at them. He hopes to finish on Tuesday or maybe Wednesday morning.

Erik gets a "Life"

Tonight Erik was awarded his "Life" Rank in Scouting. We are very proud of him!

Erik was looking mighty good in his Scout uniform!

Erik was also awarded his Music, Personal Fitness & Family Life Merit Badges

Sophie! Gotta luv ya

So on Thursday and Friday I was lucky enough to work from SLC. I got to take care of Sophie during the day and still got my work done. She is so GOOD! She plays so good, goes down for naps easily and is not very fussy at all. Gotta luv it! Jennie and I went for a nice walk on Saturday morning down to Great Harvest. I suppose the huge cinnamon roll with nuts and raisins kinda wiped out the value of the walk though..

Such a happy face

Sophia loves to play with books!

More kitchen updates

Sorry it's been so long since I posted! I was traveling for business last week and then had so many committments this week I just didn't seem to have time. So over the last few days Kent has been cutting up the kitchen floor in sections. It is a lot of work because the floor is 2 levels deep and some idot had the idea using some glue on the original floor! You know tho
se builders, you just can't trust any of them :)


I think this picture is a pretty good shot of how the walls turned out and the paint job. The paint is called Lennox Tan. It's a very warm color and looks great in the room. Don't you luv the lights in this room .... jk..... We do have real lights ready to put up

The lighting has turned out so great! The hole that is still left is where our drop lights will hang down.

Here is Kent putting down more plywood onto of our subfloor. The subfloor is really worn plywwod from when we built the house. It was very weathered so we are putting a "clean slate" down for the wood floor. We have ordered the cabinets, flooring and most of the appliances. If things go well Kent will pick up the cabinets on Friday the 21st (while I'm out of town :)) and then maybe we will get the flooring installed as early as the 30th. We will see.

The sheetrock is done! Now onto the paint

Well as you may be able to tell our kitchen is really a mess! If you have read my mom's blog you know that the sheetrock guy has been here most of the week. They finished the sheet rock texturing on Saturday.

The new ceiling has turned out especially well. I can't wait to put lights up in this and get the full effect of the lighting.

You may ask..... "How can you eat in the kitichen?" Well the answer is "WE CAN'T! We actually can get to a few things but it's not worth it most of the time. So we are eating out even more than we usally do (and we already ate out a lot)

I thought this was the coolest picture. Has Erik just made it past the veil?????

Making a laundry room out of a kitchen

We have had 2 of these shelves in the laundry room for several years and they have worked great but it's time for a change. We are going to put a couple of the base cabinets here and a counter top.

Kent & Erik are removing an old skinny cabinet that we kept lots of weird stuff in.

So we are replacing all of the kitchen cabinets so we thought we might use a FEW of the cabinets in the laundry room. It turns out that we are going to use almost all of the upper cabinets.