House Update #14

   This last week a lot of progress was made on our master bathroom.  All the tile was laid on the floor, and one accent wall of tile was done. Our vanity was also put in place.  In general house news, all the doors are hung, and trim is up around almost all the doors and windows.  The flooring came in at last, and is busy sitting around the house acclimating. It will have to sit around for about a week before it can be installed.  It will be a Christmas miracle if we are in the house before Christmas; although it could be possible.  More realistically we will probably be moving in around New Years.

These are the doors they put in the master suite.

This is our closet.

Here's a view of the vanity and flooring.  On the right, the pipes that are sticking up are the plumbing for our tub that will be installed eventually.

Here's a better look at our accent wall.  It's glass mosaic tile.

Here's our shower waiting for it's time of tile glory.

Happy Birthday Avery!

  Today Avery turned three.  Daryl and I took her to the Supermall for some special Mom and Dad time without Harper.  After lunch we went and saw the movie Puss in Boots.  Avery did pretty good through the movie, but we probably won't be in a hurry to take her to her next movie.  After that we had a little family celebration with cake and ice cream, my parents, Adam, Angie, Karl, Aimee, and Tyler.  Avery wasn't really excited when we started singing the birthday song.  She plugged her ears and tried to run out of the room.  She's been plugging her ears lately at loud noises.  We'll bring that up with the doctor at her third year check up.  At any rate she wasn't so excited about the singing, but she loved her presents.

Avery is pretty fun, very energetic, and generally speaking a happy girl.  She loves to sing with  her little piano, to Disney movies, and to songs on the radio.  She especially likes to sing along to Adele's Rumor has it.  She really likes Beauty and the Beast, Tangled, and The Adventures of Mr. Toad and Ichabod Crane.  She loves Shaun the Sheep and Ni Hao Kai lan among other t.v. programs. She loves to color and read.  Avery hasn't quite learned to pedal her trike yet, but it's coming along. Avery is also loves to brush her teeth.  Every time we go into her bathroom she insists on brushing.  We love her so much, and honestly can't imagine life without her.

She was so happy riding the carousel.

This is a little trampoline they have at the mall.  She wouldn't jump herself, so Daryl would grab her and catapult her up. 

She was a big fan of jumping.

I was able to capture this picture of Tyler who of late has not wanted to be photographed.

Daryl helping Avery blow out her candles.

Avery was thrilled to get Angry Bird decals for the walls.

Tyler and Avery sweetly sharing the iPad for a little bit before much complaining about sharing it.

House Update #13

  The bathrooms on the main floor are nearing completion, and they are looking beautiful. We got gutters put on this week, but I forgot to look for them.  The backyard was cleared out a bit too.  You wouldn't probably believe us that anything had been cleared out though. There's still a lot of work to do in our jungle.

These are cabinets in the master bathroom.

They've added cubbies for our components to go into above our fireplace.

This is a wall of tile in the main floor powder room, and vanity is floating.

This is the girls' bathroom.

Sorry this picture is a little fuzzy.

The tile is going halfway up the wall.  Pretty fun.

House Update #12

 Our counter tops aren't in yet because they were being templated last Friday, but we were able to see the granite we picked out again before they were cut. All the upper cabinets in the kitchen are installed now. They have started putting in a lot of the tile flooring in our bathrooms last week, and the mill work in the basement is completely done. Everything is coming along pretty much like it  should.

This is the main floor powder room.

This is the basement powder room.

This is the laundry room in the basement. I'm really excited to have a laundry room with cabinets.

This is what the closet doors look like, and you can see some of the mill work.

This is our master shower waiting for tile.

This is the wall in the master bathroom where the vanity is going. It should be mostly covered in tile when completed.

This is all the tile waiting to be put into our master bath.