The nursery gets drywall!

It's the first day of 2009 and Chuck and Taylor didn't waste any time. They started drywalling the nursery ceiling today! Yay! Hopefully it'll be ready for paint by next week. Shabby chic nursery...here we come!

Chuck said he has allergies...I think he just likes the mask?
It's almost finished! Taylor said today he might do picture rail where the new drywall seam is on the wall. I think that would be awesome. Stay tuned...
Oh, before I go, I need your imput in the light fixture. I want to do the total shabby chic, girly thing and do a chandelier. Taylor says we should be practical and put up a ceiling fan. What should we do?

Christmas is over...

It's kind of sad. You always build it up and then it's over so quick. Oh well! Graham had a great Christmas season. He had five "present opening" sessions. He received some great presents, probably more than he needs, of course, but who can resist his cute little face? Here's a few pictures from Christmas.

This is Graham opening a present. See his enthusiasm.

Here's one of Graham with Grandma and Grandpa. He looks out of it.

Here he is in front of the tree on Christmas morning.
Here we are when we made Christmas cookies.

Now stay tuned for more posts as renovations of 2009 begin!!!

3 Months & Counting....

I know it's been a while since I posted last, but we didn't do too much and I lost motivation. I'll post pics soon of the finished downstairs bathroom. So you can see how that turned out. But what really motivated me to start posting again is that we started construction on the nursery. Only 3 months left until little baby girl Inge arrives. Because the room we will use for the nursery is pretty small, we wanted to get rid of the drop ceiling to make it not feel so closed in. So, Taylor started busting up the drop ceiling. Here's the first hole.

Here's another shot of the whole drop ceiling torn out besides the framing.
Isn't the old wall paper lovely! We think this was a kitchen in it's former life?

So, that's it for now. I'll do my best to get those bathroom pics up soon and keep you updated on the nursery progress. I'm so excited. The plan is to do it shabby chic....pink, white, green & red! I can't wait!

Bathroom Progress

Here is the bathroom progress pics so far. First, here is the subfloor.

Here is the wall tile up with the heated floor put in. Yay!

Here is the new tile floor.

Here is little G helping T. So cute

13.1 miles...we did it!

The Kentucky Derby Festival Mini-Marathon was yesterday. We did it! Myself, Jen & Chuck, Amy and Brittany finished. It was Jen's and Brittany's 1st time...hooray! They did a great job. This was my 2nd time and I shaved a few minutes off my time from last year. A special thank you to Taylor for driving us to the start line and to Mark & Bill for letting us use your hot tub to sooth our muscles!

I'm in Chattanooga

Graham and I left for Chattanooga about an hour and a half after the earthquake on Friday morning. That's right, we felt the earthquake in Louisville, Kentucky. It was so weird...it woke me up and I didn't know what to do. At least it wasn't too bad. Well, like I said, Graham and I are in Chattanooga, so I can't update the bathroom pictures until I get back on Tuesday. Well, Taylor did e-mail me some pics...but I really don't feel like saving them to my 'rents computer, etc. That's it!

Vintage Bathroom Remodel Day 2 - New Pipes

Only some of you may think this is interesting, but day two was installing new PVC pipes. Here's the pics.