Slow Progress

Before I get to house updates, I thought I'd embarass Marc with a photo (since he's seeing me posting this right now and telling me not to show him looking like a dork). One night while I was gone Marc and Jake were having fun making silly faces at the camera. Jake was taking pictures of Marc: And Marc was taking pictures of Jake...I just thought this was too cute of them. They had a ton of silly faces, taking turns back and forth. I'll spare you...but seriously, how cute!
With the house we've been moving more slowly on it because we've had other stuff going on...plus I had PMS and proclaimed one emotional day that I was done doing another lick of work on the house. Funny how a couple days later I saw no problem with getting back to work on the house...hmmm

So Marc and Kenneth took out our window in the family room, and put in one that's half it's size (This is so that we can bump out the wall to make the kitchen bigger). It just so happened to be one of the hottest days of summer, and since the wall had a gaping hole in it for most the day, we weren't running the a/c...lots of sweating on this day:)

The new window is in, but all the finishing work on it isn't done, so I'll post a picture when it's complete.

Also Marc's been doing a lot of electrical work...there was very little overhead lighting in this house, so he's been running electrical for the bedrooms to have ceiling fan/lights. This is our 3rd bedroom:

And my Uncle Gene came over on Labor Day, and they labored...up in the attic during the hottest part of the day...at one point we'd stopped hearing their movement overhead and wondered if they'd both passed out. Do they look delirious?

They ran electrical for the chandelier over our dining table and put a switch in the wall. These things are taking many hours of work, but like Marc says, it's not too impressive. An entire day of work and all you have to show for it is a lightswitch on the wall...nobody normally would notice that kind of thing...but I do! I've felt like I live in a cave at night, and now...we have light!!We got a new dining table (don't worry, I'm not keeping those chairs:) Got to find new ones. But I'm so excited about having a pretty table. Poor Jake is confused why all the sudden he's been threatened with time outs for banging his silverware on the table, when before I couldn't have cared less. I also am working on painting the walls...this room has a greenish/grey.

Here's me grouting the tile floor in the master bathroom.
I've made very little progress in the bathroom since then. I've kind of been at a standstill because I wanted to paint the walls before putting in the vanity and backsplash. The owners before us painted water based paint on top of oil based paint, so it was peeling up. Some of it came off really easily, but a lot of it is coming off inch by inch. So hopefully I'll get it figured out soon. But we placed the vanity in there because I was sick of having it in our entryway:)