Here Comes The Flooring!!!!

The girls bathroom is looking so good guys! I cannot wait till it is totally finished! The only thing that throws it off is that darned almond colored tub! That won't be replaced for about a year or so.

Today, I painted the ceiling, caulked around the outside of the tub, touched up the turquoise paint, painted the linen closet, prep the floor for the flooring, painted hall way ceiling, painted the concrete (makes the house feel cleaner!), painted the shelves for the linen closet, removed old trim from around doors, filled holes on concrete with plaster stuff.

Man, that was a lot of stuff!

New bathroom ceiling....pretty!

Floor is prepped for when John gets home. See that ugly tub!

John is so tired, he finished laying the entire floor tonight!

Painted shelves and newly painted concrete. I think I am going to paint a hop scotch game on it for the girls until we get carpet.

Painted linen closet

Our new floor!!!! It only cost us about $35!

This room is one step closer to liking this old house!

Making Progress

Tonight we continued to work in the bathroom. We never found the water shut off valve thingy in our yard, so he had to turn off the water by the city's valve.

So tonight we removed the toilet, finished getting the old tile off the floor, John replaced the valves on the toilet and the hot and cold water, painted the linen closet walls, and got an idea of how we wanted to lay the tile.

I found a better picture of the bathroom before.

John assessing the situation...

John plugging the pipes with bread. :)

Me getting old tile glue off the concrete.

New fake hardwoods. :) It was super cheap!!!!!!!

Goal for tomorrow:

* put up sheet rock

* put up bead board

* prep concrete with latex paint for better adhesion

* lay flooring

* place 2X4 in the wall for pedestal sink
* put up pedestal sink

We should be able to accomplish all of that in one night....right????

Also over the weekend I started working in the laundry room.
I found this picture of a laundry room that I really liked. It was bright and cheery and won't make me run from doing laundry! Anyways, here is my inspirational picture...

I love the turquoise with white & black & chrome accents!

Before picture of the laundry room

Paint up and trim from behind the washer and dryer are out! Almost ready for bead board! When we were reading the directions, we learned that that wood has to stay flat for 72 hours before getting put up. So for now, the laundry is still not finished.

Me taking off the rest of that trim.

I let the girls draw on the walls were it would be covered by the wainscot. Presley was calling it her secret drawings that were going to be hidden.

Juliet helped her daddy out cutting the new trim that goes around the doors.

Old trim...I'll post a pic of the new trim when it is in place.

Bye Bye old trim!

So far, that's what we have done in the laundry room. I cannot wait for it to be done!

And on Saturday, Carl came over to help John finish up the girls bedroom. It isn't complete yet, but they did spend the day taping and bedding and putting up all of the sheet rock!

Carl....Master of taping and bedding!

Girls drawing in the walls again! They loved this part! Their art will always be apart of this house now!

John working on the outlets. I am so glad he is soooo handy!!!!

The room is looking more and more like a room!!!!

Here's the Monster stuff from Target that I liked.

So it's either going to be that or Yo Gabba Gabba!!!!!

Then we could all sing..."There's a party in Potty...."

Okey doke...it's late and I am sleepy.

Sweet dreams all!

It was suppose to be just a paint job...

This past Sunday, Meagan came over and offered to help out and paint a few walls. She also brought along a little playmate for Maggie Belle. She is fostering a little 6 month dog named Twig, she's thinking of keeping him. He really is a sweet pup and Maggie LOVED him! Those two played all day long, non stop!

This is the guest bathroom. Our original idea with this room is that just to give it a quick cheap make over to make it bearable until we get a chance to gut it and make it what we want. So we were just gonna throw up some paint (turquoise) and put up some wainscot (white) and decorate it with little bright colored monster things I saw at Target. If I didn't do my monster theme, Meagan had an idea to do Yo Gabba Gabba stuff in there. I like that idea....love Yo Gabba Gabba!

Presley and Meagan painting....Presley blends in with the wall almost.

We are going to spray paint the lights white. It's look nice when it's done.

When I looked at that blue with that brown cabinets, well it looked really gross. So the girls and I started painting the cabinets white.

Girls painting job....isn't it lovely.

When I was painting the cabinet, I freaked out! I came across a nasty piece of chewed gum stuck under the sink. Who does that? That was so gross! I had to chisel it off!

So after getting down on the floor and looking at the walls, I kept noticing water damage under the cabinet and the trim wasn't in great shape. So John took a look at it and decided to take up the trim to see what was behind it. It was nasty and molded behind the toilet! That led to more than I wanted to bite off for this week with that bathroom! It was suppose to be a quick wall paint job.

John also tried patching a hole in the old tile so we could lay a cheap vinyl wood tile down on top. BUT he said when he started to patch it, he realized that it would just come up just as easy. So that's what he did...started ripping up the flooring!!!!

We quickly started realizing that just a coat of paint wasn't going to do it. And we also ended up tearing out that newly white painted sink cabinet. It was full of mold and water damage!

As we worked like dogs...the real dogs in the house just chilled. They are so cute!!!

Bye Bye Cabinet! Nasty flooring! See the bottom of that wall. John ended up tearing that entire bottom half out. There was sheet rock inside the walls that have been molding for years! No telling how long either!

Bye Bye wall. Look at all the rodent poop in the walls. John is hoping it's gecko poop.

Nice!

John pondered and pondered how to get all that stuff up....I just pulled out the heavy duty vacuum! All clean!

So yesterday, I met John for lunch and we bought the wainscot, pedestal sink, white paint, and flooring. Tonight we take out the toilet, prep the concrete for the new floor, prep the wall for the new pedestal sink, find the water shut off valve, and replace old plumbing with new plumbing!

Like I said it was just suppose to be a quick paint job!

Sorry Kiddo...

Well yesterday, we watched Nate for a few hours. The girls LOVE it when he comes over. They were in the other room yesterday sitting on the couch watching the Ant Bully and I could over hear them. It was so funny!

Presley: "Nate, you need to move out here."
Piper: "Yeah Nate"
Presley: "You'd have a big park to play at and a duck pond."
Piper: "Yeah Nate!!! Park.....pond...."
Presley: "You can walk to school with me and it's a good one."
Piper: "My school....walk with me....."
Presley: "AND...You can see me all the time!"
Piper: "Yeah Nate!"
Nate: "TONYA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Presley and Piper are trying to convince me to move out here!"

It was to funny. That was about noon-ish.

At our 1st dinner last night, Presley was expressing her desire to John and I how she wished I'd go to the doctor and have a baby boy put in my belly. HAHAHAHAHA....knee slapper! Anyways, John and I said, 'No darling, but when you get older after you complete your education and go to college and establish career and get all of your dating and partying out of the way, you & your husband can go to the doctor when you are mommy's age and get a baby boy put in your belly." I added, "not before then, because I don't want to raise your babies." She said, "Ewwww NO! I don't want a baby in my belly! " Wheewww....maybe we don't have to worry about that again for a long while to come!

Then, the next conversation was about who'd she'd marry. She said, "When I grow up, Nate is going to be my husband...his eyes are kinda green brown blue in the middle...mine are brown..." SCREEEEEEECH........WHOAH..........Put on the brakes my dear! I almost choked on my food!
John told her, "when you get older, you can find a boy like Nate to marry, but you can't marry your cousin."

MAN OH MIGHTY!!! Does it ever stop?????

HaPpY nEw YeArS!!!!

I had the greatest New Year's Eve with my girls!

We started out our morning with a play date with Ethan, Zenon, and Nael. We baked cookies and decorated them and then shoved them down our throats! Nael and Juliet were the 1st to do so. They were so cute! As soon as I get my pictures loaded on the computer, I'll post them. The kids got all sugared up, ran through the house, yelled and screamed, and had a great time. It was all good.....and made for a nice quiet drive back to my neck of the woods. :)

Then we drove to Addison to meet John at Los Lupes for dinner and a margarita.

Then we went to Lewisville for a movie at the Dollar Cinemark Theater. We saw "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs". That was such a cute movie. Piper left saying that she wanted to watch it again and Presley left saying that she wanted to buy it. On our way out, we snuck into watch the last 15 minutes of Astro Boy. It looked like a cute movie as well, so we'll have to go back and watch the rest of it.

After our movie we ran to Blockbuster for more movies and to Sonic for a late night snack. We were all starving again!

When we got home the girls ate, put on pj's, watched the ball drop in every time zone, popped party poppers, the girls did a little dancing in their cute pj's, watched Peter Pan & Space Buddies, and fell asleep on the couch!

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh....and Presley got to help her daddy pop the cork on the champagne bottle! That was super exciting for her! And super yummy for John and I. I let Presley have a taste and she said, "Are you sure I can have this?" Then took a taste and said, "Blah, gross....i don't want that!!!!!!!!"

I love spending New Year's Eve with my family! It's perfect!

Happy New Years Everyone!!!!!!!!!!

Tree Trimming and Happy Christmas Smiles

Our Christmas tree is in the storage pod, so the girls didn't have a real tree to trim with beautiful Christmas ornaments this year. So we went out and bought the girls a tiny pre-lit fiber optic tree, but it just wasn't the same. So my mom, Grandma to the rescue, let us come over and help out trimming her and dad's tree. The girls had a wonderful time trimming the tree with Aiden, Ryley and Aunt Kimmy! We listened to Christmas music and the girls rushed grandma to get ornament after ornament. They were so cute! When they were done, they couldn't stop touching the ornaments! Grandma's ornaments are just too much fun for little ones with small hands! She has the best ornaments, always has!!!

Before trimming the tree...

After trimming the tree....


Oh nearly forgot....after tree trimming the kiddos did team work in wrapping a few gifts for grandma!


After trimming the tree & wrapping the presents at Grandma's house, we ran out to Frisco to pick up the kid's annual Christmas pictures. They came out beautifully!!!!!

I am getting into the Christmas spirit now! How can I not with all of these happy beautiful smiles! It just makes my heart happy!