Tuesday, August 31, 2010

2 steps forward, 10 steps back...

When we showed up to EskDale last weekend, we were THRILLED to see that Ryan had been working on the house all week.
That was a nice surprise.
He got some walls up and framed a bedroom door.

(Me looking about 30 weeks pregnant instead of 14)

The plan for Sunday was to put up the longer wall, which meant that the back door needed to be moved over.
Well, when they were taking the door out, it was discovered that the entire back wall isn't insulated. (yes, the outside wall isn't insulated! That's how old that part of the house is.) That meant that all the drywall needed to come down on that back wall and in the outside walls of the north bedroom.

Even Anthony was helping out that day. Although he kept wondering how that happened. ☺

Pretty soon it was decided that if that much dry wall was coming down, then ALL of the old stuff might as well be gone since it looked pretty bad. (our original plan was to just work with what we had and try to fix up the walls by texturing and painting over them.)



Don't get me started on the low slanted ceiling. ☺
Even two of Ryan's new walls had to come down so we could get the drywall off, so we really did reverse progress!


Oh no! Anthony has a saw.

This is what it looked like when we left.
We just made a lot more work for ourselves.
The good news is that taking all the drywall down will make rewiring a lot easier, and new drywall is just plain going to look better than the walls that were there! ☺
So the next question is....who does drywall taping?

Monday, August 30, 2010

End of Summer Picnic

EskDale hosted the annual End of Summer picnic, last Saturday after Sabbath services.
I actually wasn't very good about getting pictures this time.
I'm feeling fat and lazy. ☺
John Paul


Kenneth

Kiah and Ben

Ben manning the grill

Kiah, Anthony, JP, and Ben

I didn't start taking pictures until everyone was pretty much done eating.





Chandra, Ben, and Ken

Janene and JP enjoying the sunshine

Oh, I got dad eating, but he was late.

Alyshia and Breanna entertaining my kids.

Ashley, Jessica and Nakia

Good niece (cousin)



Kara crossing the stream

Megan crossing the stream



After most people were gone...

The end.
It's already starting to feel like fall around here.
Very cool in the mornings, I'm not really sure I how I feel about it yet. ☺

Friday, August 27, 2010

Wild Child

These are some pictures Sharon took last weekend, with my camera.

Give kids a hose and they'll be entertained for hours. ☺





"Look! Ella is standing in the water!"




Then she sat in the water.

Footprints

Aidan helping Grandma dig up dandelions.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

More progress...

We're back in Kenneth's house today...
Before photo of the "green" room


Another view of the same room.


Refinished closet /inset dresser

Walls painted.
It's still the "green" room. ☺
Bathroom before shot


Still in demo process


 Sunday, Grandpa Heber was over helping get ready to put walls up, and Kenneth and Crystal were painting trim.