2009 Home Projects

Here are some of the promised pictures of why I feel like I have been so out of the blogging world. We have been working on some major home projects for the past 6 weeks and are still in the middle of finishing. Our home is officially a huge mess but it will be worth it!

First, Keven is amazing. He is seriously the most handy man ever! All these pictures show work that Keven has done with his own two hands. He never ceases to amaze me with what he can do!

The first big project we undertook was re-roofing our house. OH MY, that was huge! And we are SO glad it is behind us! Just as a word of advice to any others that may need a new roof, you may seriously want to consider hiring it out! It was such an incredible amount of work and we would never have accomplished it except for the amazing neighbors we have! I felt so guilty watching the men who were literally on our roof ALL day and into the late evening. They looked SO exhausted!!!
Thanks again to all of you who came and gave us a hand because we would never have finished it without you! We are truly blessed with wonderful neighbors and friends!

The next big project has been finishing an unfinished room in our basement. We are planning to move our upstairs office downstairs to this new room and let "the boy", as I like to call him, have the other upstairs room.
Finishing the room downstairs has also included MANY other things. At the same time we have put in lights in our living room, which did not have lights before. We were able to have our basement and upstairs insulated -- yahoo for finally have a warm house!!! We fixed our upstairs ceiling, as it was struggling from new lighting, a swamp cooler hole, and nail pops from new insulation.
Wow! Are you feeling overwhelmed reading this??!! I am feeling tired just looking at all this work!

Here are a few insights to our lovely projects -

New upstairs lights

Holes in the wall from insulation. We had to patch them up and repaint.

And this is the after picture. Can't even tell them were MAJOR holes here before!

Here is Hannah's cute hand print in the plaster of our wall. She had a hard time keeping out of all the mess!

This is one of the first pictures of our unfinished room. Keven knocked out walls, then framed the room, put up insulation, and then drywall. Seriously, what a handy guy!

Like the archway? All praise goes to Kev!

We were able to paint a bunch of our house this weekend and this is the basement color. It didn't turn out quite like I planned but it is always nice to have a fresh coat of paint! Thanks to our family for helping out with that project!!

And here is our tile-less floor. Keven is now getting ready to lay laminate flooring in the basement hallway and new office.

And don't you worry, there is still more to come! We need to put up the floor molding, paint the baby's room, and then put in the A/C!!

We are five week away from new baby! People keep on asking me if I am ready for a new little one and I am surely getting there. I think once all these home projects are done I will be more than ready! But for now I am content to wait until the house is back in order. I am not a good person in living with a mess but I have had to become one. Keven has done a very timely job with everything so I am not complaining, I just will be happy when we are living construction zone free!
I know I promised a picture of me but I still haven't taken a recent shot. I PROMISE that will be my next post! And also the updates of our continued home projects!