We Have New Floors!

After working hard All Day Long the crew from Rusty's finally left around 7 p.m. tonight. Our floors look Fantastic. We're anxious to get our house back to normal over the next few days - and The Boy is excited to move in to his new room (well, that and to get the Wii hooked back up since he's having MarioKart withdrawls). Land sakes alive these floors look good. We are so blessed to have friends like Richard & Jimmy who helped us out along the way and neighbors who let our son hang out when there is nowhere to go in the house due to a floor crew. The party is at our house someday soon once things are back to normal! For now, photos will have to do but I assure you they don't do it justice . . .

Entrance

Eli's New RoomHallway

Living Room

Chuck E. & The Boy

The Boy was PSYCHED that our neighbor had a birthday party tonight at Chuck E Cheese. He informed me I've been waiting FOR YEARS to go back to Chuck E Cheese! and tonight he got his wish. We even got to hang out with Chuck E. Best.Night.Ever. claims The Boy, except for that part where we made him leave. Oh well, can't win them all. But we did have fun wishing Nathyn a very happy birthday!

How We Spent Our Christmas Vacation: Before Floor Shots

So a pipe in a closet gets a leak and results in this:Eventually resulting in the removal of carpet in several rooms, awaiting the delivery of new floors TOMORROW! TOMORROW! I Get New Floors, Tomorrow! My life can get back to some semblence of Normalcy! I'm So.Very.Excited!

But I digress. Lots of painting and prep work before the floor was to go in with the help of some good friends and Much Hard Work by The Huzbin (I can't help it I'm not a teacher and had to go back to work!). We've decided to move The Boy in to the spare room so it will be easier to redo the other room when we have the money.

Enough jabber - how about some photos? First up, what ones kitchen & dining room look like stuffed to the gils with all the items from the living room (we shant get in to the hunting haven my bedroom has become!)

The living room & entrance - all previously blue but we've now added the new color

New & improved hallway

And The Boy's New Room, previously the Spare Room, AKA David's Hunting Room

Hopefully be back with floor photos tomorrow night - we're so excited about the new floor we can just hardly stand it!

Hello 2010!

We are still in the middle of major home stuff related to the whole pipe-busting-water-damage stuff. My LR is scattered throughout the DR & kitchen, the spare bedroom among storage facilities and our master bedroom, and my sanity? Lost somewhere in the shuffle. But - but! - One.More.Day People. I just need to make it til Tuesday afternoon and the new floor will be in and then we can put the house back together again!

All that aside, we celebrated the 6th Annual get together with our friends Jimmy & Carolyn on New Year's Eve. A fabulous time was had by all, especially The Boy who cried big fat tears the entire ride home because you not what the most funnest part of the night was not? when you made me leave! OhTheDrama.

Regardless, it was a NYE filled with laughter and a most fabulous way to end 2009

So we say bye-bye to 2009 and hello to 2010! Here's to hoping for a wonderful year to come!