Still sooooooooo much work to do!

This past weekend Erik and Luke started putting mud on the drywall around our kitchen. Drywall mud is everyone’s least favorite home improvement activity. It is most likely going to take the rest of this week to finish all the prep work for the cabinet install. Erik and I are planning to go to our house everyday after work to see if we can get all of the prep work completed by Friday. While the boys were working on the mudding, I was gardening. Here is a sneak peak at our vegetable garden.

Later Saturday afternoon Erik and I put up the breakfast bar wall. We still have to put up some drywall on the wall, but at least we roughed in the location of it. We are also thinking that we are going to put some sort of stone work on the surface of the wall to match the stone work of the fireplace, (we still have to pick out the stone).

Yesterday before our kickball game we went to our house and Erik did some more drywall mud work, while I mowed the lawn (It was so hot outside). We also realized our air-conditioning does not work; luckily we have a home owner’s warranty service which will repair or replace the unit. We also ordered our backsplash tile which should be here by the end of the week.

CABINETS ORDERED!

YESSSSSS! We ordered our kitchen cabinets! They are scheduled to arrive at our house on Friday, May 1!!!! AAANND we picked out the tile backsplash we want (I think). We ordered two samples of the tile we really like, and they should be arriving either Friday or early next week. Oh it is going to look so amazing, I cannot wait. This means we are going to be crazy busy at our house for the next week and this weekend This weekend the boys and I are going to put up some drywall mud and hopefully sand. I really want to be able to start painting next weekend, so the living room will be ready when the cabinets arrive!

On another note, my wedding dress arrived at the store yesterday!!!!! YESSSSSSSSS again! I scheduled to go try it on next Friday. Trina is going to go with me :)

That is all… for now :)

A hood, bathroom paint, and a new window!

We were super productive this past weekend at our house. I had this past Friday off, so Erik’s mom and I went to our house and painted the bathroom. And (not to toot our own horns or anything) but we did an amazing job! I love the way the bathroom turned out. It came out a lot nicer than I had thought it would. Here is a before and after picture of the bathroom…

The bathroom isn’t completely finished because we still have to pick out and install a medicine cabinet for over the sink. I did however put in the new bathroom light. Take a lookie…

Also on Friday, Luke and Erik help Ross install the hood in our soon to be kitchen. It was a lot of work but it looks great. It looks a bit awkward right now because it is the only thing in the kitchen.

On Saturday, Erik and Luke installed the new kitchen window. It took all day and about 6 trips to home depot but they got it done. Look at how cute it is!

Floor work

As promised a bloggy about the floors. On Sunday Luke came over to help Erik fix the floors where we took down the wall. I have to say they did an AMAZING job. You can’t even tell it was a patch job. Wonderful work boys!

We started around 9 am, and Luke came over around 10. We had a bunch of prep work and had to get some tools we didn’t have, so the boys started working on the floor at around 3. At about 8pm the floors were done and we were all starving. Oh yea a special thanks to Tom (Bethany’s dad) for letting us use his tools time and time again, thank you so much. And to Parviz and Sina for also letting us use their tools.



While the guys were working on the floor I was painting the basement. I do have to say it looks aweeesome. After I was done with the basement I helped the guys out as much as I could (I didn’t want to get in their way).

Side note, we are hoping to book our honeymoon either this week or next week.. YAY, and I am working on getting hair and make-up appointments squared away!

Green Thumb

This was yet another very productive weekend despite the fact that Erik had to go to a conference for work all day Saturday. My mom, sister and grandparents came over to our house on Saturday to do some gardening. I watch too much “Curb Appeal” and really just HGTv in general and I was tired of our house looking so “blah”, for lack of a better term.

These are the two flower beds in front of our house, my mom and grandma cleaned all the leaves and dead plants out of them and we planted these flowers. My mom and I woke up early Saturday morning and went to home depot to buy flowers (less people traffic). We have A LOT more gardening to do, apparently we have a huge yard haha.

This is the little area around the pond; we planted a few lavender plants around it. Boy does lavender smell amazing. I can’t wait until everything is complete and we can sit outside and enjoy all of the hard work.

Sunday was another full day of work, but I won’t tell you about that until Wednesday.