http://happyflamily.com So Happy Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:24:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The exterior of the house is coming along well. There is still another layer of window trim to put on and the new porch still needs to be stained, but here is a before and after of the progress! BEFORE: In the remodel we ripped out the bushes, painted the house, removed ... http://happyflamily.com/2010/07/21/porch-and-paint/ I didn't want to post pictures of the work as we got toward the end, as I wanted it to be a surprise.  So here are photos of the rooms that are done. If you want to see before pictures, they are here: http://happyflamily.com/2010/04/15/our-new-house-2/ THE BATHROOM: This is the view from the door of ... http://happyflamily.com/2010/07/07/mostly-moved-in/ This weekend is the big one...we are moving to the new house. Our first home. We will have a little work to do before we can move in- painting, washer/dryer work, etc.  But we are going to work on it frantically and hopefully be ready to move in the morning. Sophie and ... http://happyflamily.com/2010/06/18/this-weekend-2/ We laid the mosaic tiles for the shower floor.  We had to take the girls with, but they jumped in and helped. Sophie and Lillie started a "tile store" and made us ask for the shapes we needed. Sophie kept a list of what she'd sold to us and the ... http://happyflamily.com/2010/06/15/almost-there/ As moving day draws closer (June 19th and 20th) we are scrambling to finish the bathroom, and the rest of the house for that matter. Here is the tile progress so far... The biggest project this weekend was, however, the floor of the dinning room. In all of my life I've ... http://happyflamily.com/2010/06/08/linoleum/ After weeks of prep in the way of demo, drywall, plumbing and electricity, we finally began tiling this weekend. First mixing concrete... This is the shower, with tar paper, all built and ready for slate tiles... Taping the seams for a flat surface... And the tiling begins... Jason came down to help us, he was ... http://happyflamily.com/2010/06/01/tiling/ Hard at work, Sophie and I found another layer of linoleum underneath the one we started to rip up. So the light stuff was on top and this brown stuff that we are working on is the linoleum under the white stuff and glued directly onto the hardware we are ... http://happyflamily.com/2010/05/30/closer/ Shad and I took Wednesday off of work to make more progress on the house. Of course, we had goals that could not be met, but we did try. We feel that we worked hard and didn't dawdle and still we didn't get through a third of the list of ... http://happyflamily.com/2010/05/21/another-day-in-paradise/ Before begining work on the house this weekend, Sophie and I volunteered at a fun run to benefit CASA of Lane County, an organization dear to my heart. Sophie and  got up early and had some special time before hitting the remodel work. I wanted to get some photos of ... http://happyflamily.com/2010/05/16/little-things/ Photos of this weekend's work will be posted tonight. We are hoping to have more to show if you give us another day! I was removing the carpet in the living room and hall yesterday and the archaeologist in me came out. I started digging test pits and digging past the ... http://happyflamily.com/2010/05/16/uncovering-treasure/