Tuesday, July 28, 2009

House Update....or, Why I never clean my house anymore

*Sigh*

I know I said in a previous post that everything was supposed to be finished before we went to Utah. Finished? No. Close? Yes! If you don't care about any of this, feel free to avoid this post. This is mostly so I can look back on this experience with fond memories. Here's the latest...

Two Saturdays ago I left the house in the morning with the children for a rehearsal and my kitchen window looked like this:





Four hours later, we returned, and it looked like this:




Yes, that is a HUGE gaping hole in my house! Glen knocked out all the windows to replace them with one smaller window (cabinets to take the place of windows).

Here is Glen working on the window:



(is it me, or does he look a leeeettle too happy to be doing all that work?)

More of the mess:



Window and kitchen after a day's work. Well, it's actually just the hole where the window goes. It looked like this for a week before the actual window arrived yesterday:




Then when I came home last Saturday after being gone most of the day, my kitchen looked like this:




I don't think I should leave my house any more.

It's definitely slow-going, but we're making progress! I'll post pictures of the finished kitchen soon, along with the finished basement (which, by the way, we're still working on). For now, here is the current kitchen:

Monday, July 20, 2009

Still Alive

I've been a bad blogger. I'm blaming our 2-week vacation to Utah for that fact. I'm still trying to recover from said vacation, and still working on tracking down a few pictures, so until I find those pictures, here are my adorable children.


Glen snapped this picture of them after baths, and it is quite possibly my favorite picture ever taken of them. It captures their personalities perfectly. Grace is a sassy girl, and Caleb is a goofball :)

Stay tuned for Utah fun, and house updates...