Happy New Year!

Wow 2012 is here

super excited ...our house is scheduled to get all done this year :))))

no more to-do list!

We had a good relaxing holiday and we hope you did too

yup that means not a whole lot happened around the house

not to worry still got a lot of stuff to talk about :P

just been a lil lazy lately to blog :)

Lets see where to begin...

Yaaay the ceiling around the hood

yup remember the hole in the kitchen ceiling

 Oh and since I was up there I decided to take out the ugly 

above the sink :)

 

That's right see that curly wood above the sink...

Now you don't! :)

All it needs now is a pretty hanging pendant and some window shades

 Then we had to fix the hole where the old light used to be...

 We still needed some light in that area so we added

a smaller recessed light that would fit by the exhaust duct

 TADA...

yes it looks so much smaller here

but is just as bright and does not look bad 

will look awesome once the drywall is plastered and textured

 Then there was just a big mess of drywall dust everywhere to clean :/

 Now as soon as we locate the misplaced screws

needed to put up the cover around the exhaust hood

it will be done.

Oh and the plastering and texturing will get done soon too...someday

just not today :)

Lets catch up...

 So I finally decided to start working on the hole in the ceiling around the new kitchen hood

Drew up some plans and got to work...

 Then measured, marked and let Grant do the rest :)

 

 Then we cut the 2x4's to use to attach to the drywall

Yup we still have to get rid of the toilet in the garage :)

Oh and that's where we left it....still have to put the drywall into the ceiling :)

Oh and I have discovered garage sailing 

 Here are some cool wall shelves and other things I found

they just need to be refinished

 Bedroom #2 is coming along....sloooowly

 

 

  

You don't realize that the ceiling is actually brown until you start painting it white

 Crazy Kitties....

This plant in the front yard continues to grow...

still no idea what it is :/

 I started working on the side of the house

weeding it...still more to do

  

Also decided to take out those white things that were ready to retire 

looks so much better...not sure if we want to put them back or not hmmm

Yard work continues... and so does work on the shed foundation

 Couldn't resist taking a pic of the clear blue sky...

 Grant saying hello to the Kitties...

Wiki trying to escape

                                           

Me helping :)

 

 For the shed we have finally decided to go with a laid paver foundation

thought about doing a concrete foundation but apparently that needs a permit

and counts towards our taxes...so that's a no go

Next we decided to build a deck and put it on that....too expensive

Not sure why we didn't think about pavers before...the least amount of stuff needed and

most budget friendly!

 Found this mess one morning!

More to come...

In between multiple projects

Things have been moving really slow

its those things that you really don't want to tackle

that is left for the very end :/

Anyways the Kitty is now known as 'MIKI'

so we have a WIKI and MIKI :)

Grant says they don't know their names anyways

Cats can indentify the 'KI' sound hence

it doesn't really matter what comes before it :)

They are both getting along great

 here are some more pics of MIKI mauling the ducky and the bunny

playing the box, hanging out with WIKI...

and doing what he does best....being cute!

 

A cool video...of both of them wrestling

 Here is Grant starting with that kitchen drywall fixing up

 I forgot to take a pic of the hole covered up

just got that one thing done when we get to the area around the duct 

will post more pics.

And we are now moved into the smallest bedroom #2(the one we just painted)

which is a good thing...now we can get started on painting bedroom #1(guest bedroom)

 Here is bedroom #1

 

 We took off all the fixtures, spackled, sanded, washed walls..

here is MIKI watching Grant tape the edges

Then started with digging up the area for the shed foundation

Grant exercising ;)

 Had to take it and put it in the garbage...since apparently it is not considered yard waste

 we learned that the last time we put sod with the yard waste

 We used the extra soil to fill in some hole in the yard

 Yaaay and so it begins...

It felt kinda chilly today...hopefully we will have some more time before

winter comes.

Tomorrow I leave for Memphis will be back in a couple of days

see yall then ;)