I can't believe I'm saying it... we are hiring a contractor!!

Vanity to the left, toilet on the right

Through ALL of this - we have pretty much done the bulk of the work ourselves.  Of course, Josh, Rick, and Dave, did A TON of work.  But they weren't exactly contractors nor do they have their own 'business'.

So, we decided to hire some of the work out.  

Justin Knepshield will be 'roughing in' the guest bathroom (or 4th bedroom bathroom).  It is the bed/bath over the garage - the room/bath that you will be using whenever you come visit!  - Well, as long as you are not coming in the next couple of months... although you are welcome to - you will just be sleeping in Williams room.

(behind door) Pink cast iron tub we will reuse.
Shower head on left.

Entrance to bathroom.
Yes, that is exterior brick you can see through the door

Basically, Justin will get everything ready for paint and for us to install all the finishing pieces (light fixtures, toilet, vanity, tile, etc.).

If I had to guess, it will take us another 2 months to finish the bathroom... and then I should double that.

Then, onto the bedroom.

Then, Tom wants to do windows.

I will continue to update the blog... my goal is once a week.  This week I'm going to try to do a post every day!

BUT - we thought we could finish the 4th bedroom before William was born.  Ha!  7 weeks later and we still aren't even close.  :/

AND honestly, I've stopped working so I don't know where the money for all of this is going to come from!   :/   Our property taxes are also REALLY high here.  BUT - we have a great elementary school, and a new great playground!

In the outside world of this house, we pulled THE BIGGEST dandelion yesterday.  Holy moly, we have a large yard to maintain (but will be plenty big enough for a vegetable garden some day!).

We do have a lilac bush (SMELLS GREAT!) and a beautiful-unidentified pink flowering bush that I think could be a tree if we trim it correctly.

Our roses are about 80% dead though.  Yikes - wonder who will get to clean that up!

At any rate... my future posts will show a lot more pictures!  Basically, pictures of the bathroom progress!

HAPPY TUESDAY YA'LL!!