Our New Floors!!!

Check this out! The Wednesday before Martin Luther King day Justin calls me from work and says... "we are re-doing our hardwood floors this weekend! A friend is getting me sanders for FREE, and he's going to deliver them Friday afternoon! What a deal!" So, right away i'm pretty excited! While the kids napped that day...i start moving all their toys to the basement... and extra things into the kitchen... sweeping and preping the floors to be Dazzled!

I'll spare you all the painful details... and there were many... (where crying and swearing were both involved... and that's all you really need to know)...but i thought i'd share with you some pretty scarry and quite humerous pictures of how we lived for a week and a half... (yeah, "we are finishing our floors THIS WEEKEND??" it turned out to be a much bigger project than we anticipated! BUT they look B-E-A-UTIFUL! and JUSTIN gets the "Mr. Fix-it-Super Husband" award AND his picture in a calender. (Mr. January!! Whooo-Hooo)

aheam...anyway...

Side note and HUGE Thank you to Justin's parents for letting me and the kids sleep over at their house for 4 days while Jusin put the final coats of Polly-stink... good thing... alot less headaches, and more brain cells saved that way! So, BIG THANK YOU!
OK, so here are pictures of our living conditons first!

The Kitchen

Not so bad huh?

Next we go to our Bed room, take into concideration. there are Two very large couches (stacked) another couch and matching chair, Will's Bed, Caitlin's bed, Their dresser, a rocking chair, Our bed and a small book shelf...(want to play "where's waldo??" (oh, not to mention we put the fire place on hold so we could take advantage of the free sanders... so don't think we are leaving that fire place and wall looking like that... eek!)

Now, if that's not "Red-Neck" enough for you... check out the play area we set up for the kids down stairs!!

We had to cover the book shelf with a blanket, so the kids would not pull the books off the shelf... our New DVD player is to the right of the TV covered by a dish towel... (both attatched by ducked tape!) About the DVD player... the kids totally killed out old one... so, are are saving for an entertainment center that will keep the kids away from the player... BELOW is a picture of what it looks like until a 'safe place is prepared' for it...
Justin promised me some day we will not be so "gett-o" and that some day we'll look back on this and laugh... and wish life was that simple again. ha! maybe. (since this picture was taken... Caitlin and Will ripped off that little piece of tape... and use this box as a 'super garage' for their match box cars! KIDS!

Ok, here is the other direction of the 'new' play room. stairs are to the right of this picture.

OK, now the moment you've all be waiting for...

BEFORE PICTURES: Kids Room

Justin: "Mr. Sandman!"

During: After sanding...

(then we wipped down with mineral spirits...or something... no picture.)

This is a test (after 5 and 10 minutes) of the color in the kids closet... (really no difference... so we went with 5!)

KIDS ROOM: FINISHED!!

HALL WAY Before:

HALLWAY After:

and i thought this was a cool picture of the front room during sanding...

FRONT ROOM Finished:

The front room looks alot lighter than the other rooms... only because of the windows in the front room... more light... the all look the same in real life. Hope you've enjoyed this HUGE posting... and sorry it's taken so long... to show you what we've done. more to come!
Way to go Justin!