Friday

Cabinets!! What a lovely thing! They are all in and how very, very nice they look. A HUGE shout out to and gigantic Thank YOU to Megan Becker who designed our kitchen for us. We love it and it is great!

Now begins the time of little finishing jobs and there are a lot of them. All of them seem kind of annoying and piddling compared to the exciting things of this week, but they must all be done and they all have their good purpose.

Hans with his tree

side note: our porch is filled with cardboard. we can't really get in the front door right now:)

starting in the morning

three little minions

and here they are!

oooh! AAAHH!

Thursday

Jeremiah finished the ceiling this morning and it looks great! Al came and he and Jeremiah put in the flooring. It looks good. The electrician came back and finished all of the wiring. So a lot of important things got finished, but not so visually dramatic:)

Tomorrow is the day for the cabinets. The boys are super excited about using the boxes to build forts. Ethan even informed his class mates that Thursday he would have a lot of boxes to share. He was a little disappointed when he got home and all the boxes were still closed.

We went out for dinner and it was the first time that it was actually less stressful to go out for dinner than to eat at home:) The kids did great and Denny's is awesome!

Al and Jeremiah pounding down the sub-floor.

new floor

Wednesday

Not a lot of obvious changes today, but a lot of necessary things got done. Jeremiah mudded the walls and fixed some spots in the floor. He also moved the gas pipe for the stove. I got to help today:) I washed the ceiling and realized that it was a good thing to do cause I changed water four times. This evening Jeremiah mowed the lawn and I planted some more of our garden. Jeremiah also got paint for the ceiling and he is working on that right now. Tomorrow the floor will be installed so we want to have the ceiling painted before the floor is in.

The kids are having fun with the process. The all want "in" the kitchen, not just watching over the gate:) Ethan is constantly searching for little jobs or trash to throw in the dumpster when he is "in". Hans, on the other hand, is constantly finding new things to do, mostly dangerous, but all quite creative. We STILL can not turn our back on him. Anya does not get to go in, much to her disappointment.

Hans needed a pen in his ear like daddy

this is the view

And here is our make-shift kitchen in the dining room.

Tuesday

More Progress! Yeah!!

View in the mud room

Earon, who was my hero, she helped so much!

new door to the mud room!

installing drywall

the hottie contractor;)

and now it looks like a room again!

Monday

Oh me oh my, this project is feeling huge! Monday was the day for the electrician to come, and everything is almost done. He will be back for a little bit on Tuesday. John and Jeremiah did some framing and reinforcing and I think everything is ready for the drywall Tuesday.

One little crick in the system is that the kids all have colds. Argh!! They are stuffy and cranky by spells, not exactly the best week for it. Oh well, we will do this!

This is the new vent for the microwave above the stove. Nice:)

Saturday

cutting the hole for the fridge to stick into mudroom

gutted!!

the sticky - outy for the fridge

The kids and Becky looking at the falls

Anya bean!

Hans trying appetizers at Earon's graduation dinner.

Friday

Lots of fun today:) We start out with a picture of the roll off dumpster truck because Ethan was fascinated by it (he wanted a picture so he could make one out of legos!) and thought I should include it:) It was a busy day, the mason was working on the basement and the dumpster came and we emptied the kitchen into the dining room AND the cabinets were delivered. AHHHH!!!

Kitchen Friday AM with the appliances removed.

rest of the house as it looks packed with everything that has been shifted.

ta da!! There's those cabinets. The boys are already planning what they will do with all those boxes and mommy can even envision some pretty cool forts:) Hans REALLY wanted to climb on them. I left the room and in two minutes he was calling plaintively cause he was stuck: balanced on the top edge of the pellet stove door and the box next to it!! When I punished him he got more upset when I firmly informed him he would never climb on those boxes than from the actual punishment.

one of the 3 styles of floor under our present floor, any takers?

Jeremiah cleaning off that floor, all the way down to the hardwood.

ooh, aah! The beautiful ceiling that is revealed by taking off the drywall. We shall keep it and paint it and it shall be ours:)