Hanging out with the family

This week my Sister-in-law had to be admitted to the hospital for some abdominal pains. Come to find out there is an issue with her pancerias. The good news is I got to hang out with my nephew and nieces for the day. They moved to Colorado from LA last summer and moved in not to far away from Dad's firestation. So they got a 1 on 3 personal tour of the Fire House. They loved it!! Even the 2 year old thought it was "pretty". Here was our day...

Life finally back to normal

Whew, moving is hard work and I never want to do it again! We finally got the last box moved and all the extra trash to the dump. You don't realize how much unnecessary stuff you actually have till you pick it up piece by piece and put it in a box to go back to the basement. I was very proud of myself and got rid of a bunch of stuff. It's still in the basement, but it's in a garage sale pile.


The fun part is now we can decorate and make this house ours. I'll take some pictures when the random clutter is put away. Still have hammers and screwdrivers in random places. My dad hung a book case for me only it didn't match. Well I found left over paint from the owners and painted that sucker purple!!! It matches the walls now and looks like a Barbie Book case. No mom, you can't store your 50 some Barbies...it's MINE!!!

And now the work begins

So now that we're proud home owners, the work begins, while testing all the pipes we discovered that the outside sprinkler valve cracked as well at the master shower. The only good thing is that the back of our shower is our vanity with easy access. New patch of drywall, some texture and paint and it's brand new.
My grandparents came up this past Monday to "see the house" well they saw it all right, ever square inch. Grandma set her self to cleaning baseboards, closets, behind toilets, and windows. Grandpa started taking down the blinds in the kitchen so we could start ripping that down. Today we primed the kitchen and tomorrow while Aaron and myself are at work, Dad and Brian are going to come up and texture so we can paint and hopefully get moving in soon. While grandpa and I tackled the kitchen Aaron and Dad set to some demo work, the section above the fireplace had a TV cut out, but not one that will fit our flatscreen so they set to tear out the old and build in new. That too needs texture tomorrow and paint and then we'll be set there. In 3 days we've moved almost everything. Just the stuff we need to live is still at the old house and hopefully as soon as we get a fridge we can move on over!!!! I can't wait, I'm tired of living on chip and warm pop. We'll off to bed so I can go to work and rest!!!!