pretend this blog post was written saturday, march 3. because that's what i'm going to pretend. we have done so many projects during the month of march that it would be a ridiculously long post, so i'm going to break it up, and include some other activities from along the way. i just laughed re-reading the last post that was written on february 22 that says perhaps we'd have a completed kitchen by the weekend of march 2. it's march 30, and we pretty much just finished. we still have a few small projects, but most of it is done.
so first, the weekend of february 24-26, we went camping with a group of friends at pedernales falls. soo much fun!
a great break for us from the kitchen projects, but unfortunately, it also fell during a weekend before a very busy week for us (kitchen-wise). our countertops were scheduled to be installed thursday, march 1, which means we had to remove the old countertops before then, as well as remove and replace the drywall where the backsplash had been.
a great break for us from the kitchen projects, but unfortunately, it also fell during a weekend before a very busy week for us (kitchen-wise). our countertops were scheduled to be installed thursday, march 1, which means we had to remove the old countertops before then, as well as remove and replace the drywall where the backsplash had been.
by monday, we had removed all of the backsplash and drywall behind the backsplash, as well as some of the smaller countertops.
on tuesday, i didn't have to work, so i primed the walls around the cabinet area of our kitchen. when ashton got home, he removed the rest of the countertops.
on wednesday, ashton installed the new drywall (he did most of it, i think i helped hold it up while he cut and while he screwed it in) and i worked on pulling the tile floor up. (we somehow failed to get pics of ashton doing any of his projects... sorry!)
on thursday, our sink and countertops were installed!!! yay!
on friday, i came home to a garage floor covered with water and realized our hot water heater was leaking. :( so after our attempts to just fix the heater, we gave in and decided to buy a new one. (the price was ridiculous, but the hot showers are oh so worth it!) ALSO... on friday, i mowed for the first time ever! we had a mini tree farm growing in our front yard, and my sister warned me that the city would fine us for not mowing, so i got busy.
on saturday, ashton's grandparents were our first official house visitors, and they were such good sports about everything! we didn't have water on due to the leaking hot water heater and you still had to crawl over boxes and clear your own path through the living room. luckily for all of us, they wanted to go out to eat for lunch, so the not having water issue wasn't a big deal after all. :)
3 comments:
the city would fine you for mowing?!? :) everything looks FANTASTIC!!
-TF
PS I need copies of the camping pictures!
the city would fine us for NOT mowing. i've corrected it now! thanks for pointing that out. and thanks for letting me know that someone does actually read all the way to the end of these posts. :)
camping pics are up on rachel's facebook page (but not tagged). i asked her to put them up so i could put one on this post. :)
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