Halloween

From Aliisa:

We had a very busy weekend which started on friday morning with Emily's class party. Then we went to lunch with her to have pizza and cake with yucky orange icing...makes me wonder what they are feeding our kids!

Friday afternoon we carved our pumpkin because we forgot to do it on Thursday. Usually we do it earlier but this year we wanted to save our pumpkin for cooking. So here is Emily with her carved pumpkin.

After that, we rushed around to get here ready for trick or treating...I even had time to do her makeup....mind you...Im not very good *lol*

Yes I know...looks funny but it was really cute...I promise *lol*

After trick or treating we went to a fall party and roasted hotdogs and had smores and ended the night with a hay ride. It was a very full night!!

Saturday we spent the day cooking up the pumpkin and putting in the sink. It went well but then the plastic pipes that came with the sink split and now, we have to go buy new ones...so unfortunately our sink is still not finished. But its all good....because it will be.

Saturday night we spent with friends...we had what we fondly call junk food night. It was alot of fun. We played the Wii and ate way too much food.

Sunday we visited a new church. We are now church hunting since Jarred is no longer working on Sunday mornings. We liked it but are still going to visit some others.

Monday I spent the day trying to gain some ground on the mess from the weekend. I made progress but didnt get it all done. So today I have to work on that some more.

And finally...this morning. Jarred and I got up really early so that we could go vote before it got busy. He was down there at 6am when the polls opened and I went around 6:15 when he got back. Its nice to be done with that.

So now I am off to work on the house....fun fun *lol*

Our new bathroom

From Aliisa:

Well, we didnt get to finish the whole bathroom. Turns out our valves are leaking because they are very old and have been welded to the pipes. I called the plummer and he is coming out tomorrow to put in new valves. Then we can finish up. But here are the pictures so far.

Here are all the little 1" tiles that I took up with a hammer and screwdriver. Took me 5 hours to get it all done!!

This is the board you put down before you tile.

Here is our new tile. My husband cut it all and I laid it and grouted it. It wasnt easy but at least its done!!

Here it is almost done, just have to install the sink later. I love the paint color and I just love the tile!!!

I will post more pictures when the job is completed.

House Pictures

From Aliisa:

I was viewing my friend Miriam's blog this morning to see the pictures of her beautiful new floors and told her I would post some pictures of some of the work we did on our house. So these are pictures of our living room and dining room after floors, paint and appliances.

As you can tell, I love red!!