In lieu of doing a family blog, I've been trying to update a blog for each of the girls. I've taken the information I had on babyzone for each of the girls and added it to here, as I will not be updating babyzone any longer either. If you want to see how the girls are growing and what they're doing, check out these blogs:
Friday, May 02, 2008
Abandoned Blog
Friday, August 31, 2007
Picture this!
Kimberly Smoot came up from Springfield the other day to visit and take our family pictures. Her pictures rock - this was just a sneek peak - cannot wait to see the rest! Watch for more pictures to be posted soon!
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Cabinets are a headache!
Ok, so first we find out on Saturday that they're not all wood, so we have to wait to see what happened, now, tonight we find out that they are spaced wrong - we don't need a three inch spacer, we only need like a 1/2 inch spacer...eeek! So, now we have to move the uppers down some, move the window again, and move the lowers over just a bit. What a pain! Just when it was starting to look like a kitchen!
Monday, July 30, 2007
More painting...
Tonight Sheila came over to finish up trimming out the "red wall". She trimmed and put another coat of paint on and then before bed, I put the third coat. It's really starting to look good - I'm not worried about it being candy apple red any longer!
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Do you see the light at the end of the tunnel?
This morning Tom and Mike hung all the upper cabinets and started to place the lower cabinets until they realized that the lowers weren't all wood (which we paid extra for to hold the concrete counters)
...so they had to stop until we find out what we can do about it. Here's what it looks like so far.
Either way, we took the plastic down and everything seems much less cramped and much more homey and comfortable! YAY!
Friday, July 27, 2007
Painting...
Tonight, Mom and I painted the walls while Sheila trimmed out the corners and edges along the ceiling. We used a caramel color on all the walls except the wall outside the bathroom - it's a barn red - although it looks like a candy-apple red right now....yikes!
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Texture!
Tonight Mike and Brent sprayed texture on the kitchen and laundry room ceilings. Mike will be picking the cabinets up on his way home from work tomorrow night!

Monday, July 23, 2007
Finishing things up...
Tonight Brent worked on putting Primer on the walls while Mike and Tom finished up some of the mud work. We're getting closer - Wednesday night we'll be spraying texture on the ceilings, Friday night we'll be putting the cement board down on the floors and painting and Saturday we'll be hanging cabinets! Yippee!
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Drywall is almost complete!

Tonight Mike finished hanging all the drywall on the wall between the kitchen and the living room. Now it's all done except what will be in the bathroom around the tub. One step closer to getting those cabinets delivered!
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Just got the call...
THE CABINETS ARE IN!!! Yippeeeee!
Monday, July 09, 2007
More drywall up!
Mike and Brent worked on getting more stuff done tonight.
We no longer have a door to go in and out of the old part of the house to the new part of the house - it's now just a hole in the plastic that's up between the two...that means we're getting closer.
Our spare bedroom now has a drywalled closet and the studs have been put in where the door was. We just have to turn the power off to the living room for a bit to move the switch into the kitchen and we're ready to hang the last of it in the kitchen area. YAY!
Saturday, July 07, 2007
Mudslinging action...and more!
Yesterday Tom came over and finished up with the first coat of mud. Almost all the walls that are up now have mud on them as well. (Thanks Tom!)
Mike watched the girls while I mowed...first time the lawn had been mowed in over 6 weeks...yikes!
Today Tom put a second coat of mud on almost everything. Mike got the rest of the drywall hung in the bathroom and laundry room/back entry area and finished up a lot of the little stuff.
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Happy Independence Day!
We have some walls now!
Today Mike, Brent and Tom finished getting the lights/fan up in the bathroom, got the kitchen ceiling mudded, the bathroom ceiling insulated and drywalled, the laundry room ceiling insulated and drywalled (as well as the washer and dryer running) and the west and north walls in the kitchen completely drywalled. Way to go guys!
Now we're off to see some fireworks! Happy Independence Day everyone!
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Does that look like a ceiling???
Jason and Mike finished up some of the odds and ends that needed to get done while Tom played around on his stilts and worked on getting mud on the ceiling.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Tomorrow's the big day!
They got a large portion of the insulation in the walls done tonight.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Work, work, and more work!
Kyle helped out with getting the faucet on the tub running...
And the Tyvek was put on the outside of the house yesterday!
We seem to have an endless amount of work! We're so thankful for the help we've had!
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Let there be light!
TaaaDaaaa! Mike got all the lights up and running tonight and Tom got the a big chunk of the wall taken off. We're getting closer! We're almost ready to take out the wall between the kitchen and living room! (And did you catch a glimpse of that huge tub in the bathroom?)
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Lookin Like A Kitchen!
They guys got lots done this week!
This is the view from the back entry / laundry room. If you look close, you can see the boxes for the outlets on the wall and even the cans on the ceiling! YAY!And this is the view from the west wall. To the right is the bathroom (with the back entry door leaning on it) and to the right is the laundry room/back entry area.
Saturday, June 09, 2007
Almost done with the sheeting!
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Put a lid on it!
Saturday, June 02, 2007
Ready for the roof!
The east wall for the bathroom and back entry area.
Today Mike, Kris, Bill and Kyle got the windows cut out of the walls and all of the trusses for the roof built and ready to go up.
They were busy bees today!...not as busy as this colony of honey bees living in the tree right outside of the kitchen window, but still, quite busy!
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Up go the walls...
The back door.
Wednesday night and tonight the Mike and Bill got all the exterior walls standing. The kitchen is definitely taking shape now!
Monday, May 28, 2007
Getting ready for the floor...
Checking to make sure each joist is level so everything that lands on the floor doesn't roll to one end of the room.
Just about done with the joists! YAY!
Today the guys, Mike, Brent, Tom and Bill, put down the floor joists and the floor. Tom even decide to make use of all the left over paint we had at the house and painted the floor to protect it from the weather. They were moving right along!



















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