Home Improvement

Here are some photos of the latest house project...the upstairs. Thanks to good friend Brandon we have finally gotten things started! I spent some time this week doing clean up so the last room can be cleared out and torn apart as well. Here are some pics:

"Before"

"After"

-check out that honeycomb!

Initially (and still some now) I was not too excited about this project, though I really wanted it done. Now its kind of 'exciting' to see the bare bones of the house and see how it gets put back together. It will amount to 2 large bedrooms with lots of closet space and a bathroom. The one room is currently housing the trim to be stripped and used again and some misc. furniture, but we hope to get that moved in the next couple weeks and get that room cleared out as well. Fun times and good memories! I was looking back at my "home improvement" scrapbook and its interesting to see the changes in the past 5 years already. The other project currently in the works is getting the trim on the living room windows so we can put up curtains, hopefully before the hot summer sun starts coming in.

The bestest weekend!

We have had such a fun weekend! Gabbie is still recovering from 15 month shots and teething, but she has still been a trooper for weekend activity. Friday night we all went swimming and played in the gym, then hit the McDonalds drive through as we were too tired to get out of the car!

Saturday Gabbie and I rode with Brice to take a load of hogs to Sioux Center.

Gabbie enjoyed the truck ride! Again, lunch at McDonalds as it was the only place we could fit the truck and trailor well. I got a book finished on the way up and a nap on the way home! We went spans of time with Gabbie having no pacifier...we are trying to get rid of that thing before her 18 month birthday!

Sunday we just had to play in the mud! Hard to resist making a huge mess...

Gabbie needed her Vitamin D (she laid down on purpose, didn't fall!)

She found the best mud puddles! And yes, she did try to eat it; and no, she didn't like it!

Then we came in the house and she found her loot-2 sippies AND the pacifier! What a treasure!

I love weekends that aren't booked full and we can just play! I have been doing well this year with staying caught up on housework and bookwork, which has made the weekends much more free and fun. I'm glad Gabbie enjoyed the mud, as it seems we have many days of that ahead!