Check!

MORE PROGRESS!!  Of course, life doesn't stop while you're renovating so I've added some big milestones to my list (in my opinion, of course!)

• New tires on car... Check!
• 5 MORE gallons of ceiling paint (already spent 5)... Check! 
• Metro Heating and Cooling FINALLY scheduled to come replace furnace... Check!
• Duct cleaning for two units - with two different companies, scheduled.  Check!
• Jimmy The Sandman scheduled to refinished 2,300 sq. ft. of hardwoods... Check!
• ALL Christmas gifts purchased & wrapped... Check!
• 2 baby shower gifts + wrapped... Check!
• Tom's brother's wedding gift + wrapped + delivered... Check!  (i'll stop with the check! thing now)
• Beam in kitchen stained... I can't take credit - Rick and Josh did this, but its done!
• MORE casing cut to exactly replicate existing casing AND some of it is INSTALLED!

Nice smile Josh!!  Josh and Tom were using our custom made router bit to cut casing to exactly match the existing.  I think its pretty neat we did this - those bits were NOT cheap!

The router they were using... thankfully they did it safely!

We were at the house until 9:45 last night.  Then - got dinner.  Ick.

Tom has two nice cuts from his recent work.  :/

Last night we were installing flooring in the powder room.  I had this great idea of replacing some white tiles (in an all white tile pattern) with navy blue ones.  I've seen people do it before, but no idea how time consuming it was.  I don't think it would have been that bad, had Tom not spent all day working and it was 9 at night.  Plus, this was his first time EVER laying tile.  I don't think he read anything about how to do it - as he started at two ends and tried to meet in the middle.  He measured and measured and measured the floor, but when it came for the last two rows to meet in the middle, they were off by a 1/4".  That sucks.  So, today he is ripping up some of what he did.  I feel for him.  :/

Each of those blue tiles there you see were individually cut out.  Then we had to cut off the glue from each side of each 1x1 inch square.  We also had to cut out the tiles from the 1ft. square of them to fit the blue in.  I think it will look pretty awesome, hopefully pretty custom when its all done.  But man, a bit of extra work.  Tom was not happy with me for wanting to do this... :)  It definitely did take a lot more time.

Those are navy blue walls :)  Stencil pattern yet to be applied. :)

Also, the lady that used to own the house (it was foreclosed on her) - has been living with someone down the street.  Weird, eh?  So, the person she has been living with off and on down the street stopped by the other day.  She gave us the below lantern, that her 'friend' took from the house when it was foreclosed on.  It is apparently original and used to be on the back porch.  Looks pretty sweet I'd have to say!!!!  Let's hope she has more stuff to return - that's original to the house!!!

OH!  And more cabinets are going up today!  Just a few, then we wait on the special order ones.  BUT the wall in the kitchen, where the brick was, is now dry-walled and painted - looks pretty cool!  Frigde is also in place too!  Yahoo!!! :)

Next two/three weeks are EXTREMELY busy for me.  So my early apologies if I'm MIA for a lil.  

Thanks for reading.  Love you all.

H