Another Weekend of Work

Well this weekend mom and dad came up again to work on the house again....aren't they awesome.

The laying of the cork flooring
In an effort to be a Boise State supporter we got orange duct tape to use with the blue quiet walk. Al wanted to have her name somewhere in my house so she duct taped her name to the quiet walk, mom altered it to make it work for Alyson, Mom, and Alyssa's initials.
The hard wood is started...isn't it so pretty...I LOVE IT!!! It is turning out just like I imagined. YEAH!!!! Now if I could figure out why I'm getting spots in my pictures. :O)
The Master Tiler at work.... isn't see doing awesome. It looks so good.
Alyssa's bathroom
My Bathroom
Check out those cuts...perfect. :O)

Fun Colors and Cute Nieces

Here are some pictures I took tonight of the house so you can see my fun colored walls. It's starting to feel like my own house. I put the cute nieces in there just for fun. :O)

My room. I painted one wall chocolate brown...it seriously felt like I was just painting melted chocolate on my wall. I had to tell Alyssa to quit licking it. JK

Alyssa's Bathroom. The other three walls are a yellow color

Most of the living areas are the green (you can see the yellow from Alyssa's bathroom on the right of this picture)
I've done pretty well at picking colors for the house but the bane of the color palette has been the den. I wanted a red but the first red looked like it was a slaughter house. OK at first it did it did look better with a few coats. The second red just wasn't working for me. So I just decided to change and go with orange. I haven't seen the finished room yet since Alyssa and Sara finished it tonight while I was playing with the nieces and nephews and making dinner. It should be fun to see it tomorrow. It was fun to let Delayna and Cailah have a little fun with the orange paint brush on the red wall.

Operation Paint Continues

I don't know why it is so much fun up there but it's seems to be. :O) Actually the worse place to try to clean and paint...such a pain.

And the color transformation begins

I was downstairs working and I hear Ryan saying, "Um Kristin can you come here and look at this" When I went up to see what he messed up on, since that is what it sounded like I found this on the wall. (JK=Just Kidding) He was rather impressed with himself for keeping a straight face...I was impressed also. Then he posed for it afterward.

Apparently I need to clean my camera lens but at least you get the idea of how it's coming.
Mike and Dad laying down felting for the wood floors. Yep we are ready for them...bring on the wood.
The girls really really wanted to help paint so they come over and did some painting...Yes I let them put their initials on the wall. Now I have Ryan's, Randy's, Abby and Cailah's initials underneath my paint.

Mom got one of the bathrooms done...with tile in. It's looks fantastic... I love it.

This basement bathroom had a hideous light fixture. The wavetron or something like that Randy called it. Anyhow when he was out at shopping he bought me a light fixture which was pretty gutsy thing to do but he did well. He just said he big one of the two he saw that weren't hideous. It's always good to narrow it down. He told me he found it at a really great price for me....free...because he wouldn't tell me how much he paid for it. He tends to do things like that when he is on vactation. It looks really good in my ocean feel bathroom.

A Break From Work

We did take a few breaks from working and played some games. Dad looks like he is asleep but really he was just focused.

This video is particularly posted for Doug's enjoyment. I'm not sure if you will be able to hear what was so funny but let me just say it was left over passing from Thanksgiving. I think Alyson almost had stress incontinence. :O)

Cleaning Phase Complete...Operation Paint in Progress

Randy painted the ceilings in my bathroom

"As they say in the Navy, if it's painted it's clean"...I guess that goes for Randy also.

Yes it's looks like a construction site. Here we are about to attempt to spray the ceiling. Randy is doing the final preparations.

I was busy cleaning doors when Randy comes in and say...."we're going to need all the rags you've got...dad's going crazy with the sprayer" LOL We didn't move fast enough in covering up things..by the time we got the the family room the mantle was covered in white. It was pretty fun and came clean. We had to run to Alyson's house for masked so we could breath.

I'm not sure if most of the painted ended up on dad's face for the ceilings. That had to not be fun for him....I appreciated the sacrifice.

The Troops Arrive for Christmas

My Christmas present to everyone was to buy this house so that we could spend quality time with each other working on it. As evidenced by the picture below.....how often do mom and dad get to spend quality time like this together. :O) This is why they have been married so long....they are willing to spend two days helping each other fix each other mistakes....no need to go into detail but let me just say they are awesome and I really appreciate their help.
Demolition...of course nothing is as easy as it seems. The kitchen floor was raised because it had linoleum in the kitchen and carpet in the rest. I decided to hard wood the whole level...causing demolition day. Luckily Randy was only sick for a few days and was my demolition man along with Mike.

Ryan...what more can I say. :O) I actually am not sure what he was doing right here but he made it through a sickness and helped out a bunch also. Despite his desire to see his lady :O)

And the cleaning is almost finished. This was the last room to be cleaned and I was sooooooo very ready for it to be done. It's so much more fun to paint . Wait until you see the before and afters. I think it's going to be great.
No I'm not above child labor....at least I provided safety goggles.
Cailah wanted to get involved with the demolition. She removed all the remaining staples from my closet floor and swept them up.

Mom was very helpful when she wasn't hiding up on top of my walls just lounging there.

Alyssa in an effort to avoid cleaning which I can't say I blame her scraped the linoleum floor off the laundry room floor preparing it for the tile.