Remodeling part II

As promised, here are some more of our remodeling pictures. The first couple are of Jaycee's room, which Mike finished just before she came.

It got a new paint job and new molding, crown included. Then I painted the wood flowers, butterflies and hearts.

My sister Joy (with the help of Jaime) surprised me with her name when I got home. I knew she was working on it, I didn't know it was done. They put it up while I was at the hospital. Our house gets super hot in the summer. I remember people telling me how hot it was, so I was glad to be in the nice air conditioned hospital. Anyway when they came over to put it up the power had gone out, so they couldn't turn on the swamp cooler and it was very dark. So they got it put up in candle light, because at the time we didn't have flashlights. So kudos to my wonderful sisters!

Now on to the Basement. We realized we had a leak when I went to do laundry and at the bottom of the stairs was soaking wet!! So Mike and his dad went to work, they found we had a pretty good sized crack in our foundation.

Not long after that I moved a coffee table I had pushed up against the wall under this window to find that it was all moldy. So when Mike tore this wall apart we found a pipe coming into the house which wasn't sealed. So we had water coming in there also.

And now for the after pictures. When we started we had no idea that we would be doing the whole basement. It just ended up this way. Which we are glad of now, at the time it was a pain. We really enjoy it now. It's nice to have everything nice and new. So here is the new kitchen downstairs. Oh ya....the basement also got new french doors, and all new windows.

The only thing that stayed was this brick wall and the fireplace. The basement got new molding, lighting, wiring, plumbing, windows, doors, cupboards, sink, counter tops and tile.

So part III will have to be our room which Mike just finished and the bathroom. I'm having a hard time finding my pictures of the bathroom. I remember taking them, now I just have to find them.:) Now we have the inside all done. If only the outside looked as nice as the inside!! Does it ever end??

Remodeling

Well, we've been doing some remodeling, and I never posted any pictures. Mike has done such a good job on our house so now I'm going to post some of his wonderful work:) And I'm working backwards. The Living room was his last project, then the kitchen. Later I'll post the bathroom, Jaycee's room and the basement.

Notice the molding around the window's and the floor is gone.

I did help a little with the painting. I'm not completely useless:)

The finished living room. I'd been bugging Mike for a shelf forever. He did such a good job!

Now we have nice new moldings!

Now onto the kitchen/hallway. He started off tiling, which we ran all the way down the hallway. The hallway carpet was always dirty!!

Jaycee was so tired of living in a dusty dirty house, she took matters into her own hands.

She even got to help a little with them demo in the kitchen. She followed Mike around, whenever I would let her, coping everything he did. She is such a daddy's girl.

In these pictures, the tile is done and the walls are just waiting for their turn.

The finished kitchen. Only that wall is blue, the rest are the same color as the living room. I failed to take pictures of the rest. Probably because it is never clean enough to take pictures of...

That it for now. Like I said he has done such a good job! Now he's ready to build us a whole new house...right? Now he has fixed every room in the house except for our room, and I think he's planning on doing it within the next month or so. So if you know anyone looking to buy a house send them our way. Our house is practically new now...and we'll give you a good deal:)

Spring Fever

I am sooo ready for Spring already!!:)

Happy Valentines!!

We had such a great Valentines Day! We took Jaycee to the Clark Planitarum with some of Mikes family, to see "Under the Sea" in 3D. I really liked it Jaycee wouldn't wear the glasses, so she didn't get the whole affect. But it was really good. Then me and Mike went to the Junction and saw "New in Town" which was also good. We had a really good day.



On another note, we've been working with Jaycee on using to potty. She actually does really well. She goes almost everytime we put her up there. But she never tells us when she has to go. We just have to watch her and try to catch her before she goes. Anyway it so funny when you tell her to push she does this really overexaggerated push. I tried to get it on camera and this is what I got...

Better Late then Never

We had such a great Christmas and New Year. We are so blessed to have our families around us all the time. Not that I have any pictures of us with our families. We really were luck to spend so much time with both Mikes family and mine.

Shoulder Surgery FUN!!!


Snow FUN!!

Tree FUN!!!

New Years FUN!!!

Jaycee actually stayed awake this year!