Bathroom Is Almost Done!!!

So yesterday the girls and I went and picked up some carpet samples then went to the mall for a couple of hours to kill some time till John got off of work.

BUT before all of that I painted two coats of paint on the wainscot. It's looking good! I think, though, that it needs one more coat. And it needs some caulk around the seams.

When John got home, we ate dinner at Sweet Tomatoes then ran to Home Depot to get a few things we needed to put the toilet back in place. So we really didn't get to start back working on things till almost 10 at night.

We did reinstall the toilet! Well, he did. It was kinda funny too. We haven't the slightest idea what we are doing...kinda making it up as we go along with the help of Goggle. We called our plumber a few days ago to see how much it wold be reset a toilet and it was almost $90. We said "NO WAY! We'll figure out how to do it ourselves!"

So we did....the picture below cracks me up since this was John's way of installing the toilet.
I think it's just hysterical. I dunno...maybe you just had to of been there.
hahaha

Our toilet and toilet paper holder. It's so cute! I love it! I found it on clearance at Home Depot!

After the toilet, we removed the mirror. Nice hole, huh! There must have been a previous medicine cabinet there. I can honestly say that we are getting to know this old house very very well!

So now all we need is a little texture and some more turquoise paint and we'll be good to go to hang the new medicine cabinet!

We are going to reuse the old square mirror somewhere else in the house. We'll just frame it and hang it!

That's about all we got done last night in the bathroom. We quit about midnight then spent the next couple of hours playing Cafe' World and freakin' Farmville! Oh, and I fell asleep watching the Soloist.

The Guest Bathroom - Day 5

Today was pretty fun. The girls and I stayed at home and worked around the house. We played Lego's and play-doh this morning then before lunch we painted a hopscotch game on the painted concrete. Now instead of running down the hall, the girls are hopscotching down it. :) I also painted a couple of flowers outside of their playroom door. I think I might make it look like an area rug.

When whomever lives here after us goes to replace the flooring, their are gonna be like," What the heck were those people thinking!".

Girls love it!

The girls have been really big into making their own lunches this week. I am all for it! Love auto pilot! I just kinda hang back and keep an eye on the two. They come up with some pretty creative sandwiches. They have their daddy's tastes...they'll throw anything that they can together to make something.

And after dinner, we popped some popcorn that I found in a box from our camping trip that was cut short last year. It actually popped on our crappy stove top! And it didn't burn!

Then this evening when John was done working, we started in the bathroom again! The sheet rock is up!

The wainscot behind the toilet and sink is up!

John is VERY proud of his holes!

The chair rail...the final touch. Looks so pretty. We are a lil' closer to liking this house.

Tomorrow, is FRIDAY!!! YAY!!! TGIF!!!!

Goals for tomorrow:

* Pick up carpet samples

* Paint wainscot white

* re-install the toilet

* install pedestal sink

* finish putting up the wainscot on the opposite wall, take down the old mirror

* texture & paint wall that was behind the old mirror

* Put up new medicine cabinet/mirror

Then the girls bathroom should be pretty done except for some minor touches!

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!!!!!!!!!!