Home improvements: updated with Pictures

It gets worse before it gets better, right?

At least that's what i'm telling myself.  This weekend James put plastic all over the interior of the house.  the scene reminds my of ET or other Alien SciFi movies.  James in a white jumper suit that covers his body from head to toe, gas mask on and plastic everywhere.  It's truly a sight like no other.

This weeks renovations included removing all 1600 square feet of popcorn texture on the ceiling.  Yikes.  It was a big project: second biggest project we have planned, and so far it's going great.

While James was down getting dirty, we girls decided a little dirt would do us some good.

James has been eyeing craigslist for some amazing deals on berry bushes and other great pollinating plants for the future bees.  So today to reward James in all his hard work,  The girls and I planted 6 Raspberry bushes that where HUGE.  Digging in the grown took great strength and reminded me of all the work a garden will be.  I started to second guess myself.  But then we went over to our friends house and saw all the work they where putting into their garden and I got all excited about it all over again.  I think I'll be digging in dirt for the next few weekends and hoping to start the beginning of a beautiful garden.

Gwenevere watering the Raspberries

You can hardly tell but we have 5 raspberry bushes

The biggest Raspberry bush

Gwenevere's self portrait

Grace thought it was pretty cool I let Gwenevere take some pictures

Standing at the edge of our property

The ally way behind our house and a great future bike riding road for the kids

The view of the sound down the street.  On clear days we can see Papa's work and Mt. Rainer

Ladies Night

Wednesday night James spent the night at the new house so he could stay up late and work on projects.  To pass the time,  Gwenevere, Grace and I had a ladies night.  We watched "Wreck it Ralph"  and ate candy.  Grace slept through most of the movie but we all enjoyed the togetherness time.

Then tonight, James went straight to the house after work to do some more work.  My dinner turned out disgusting and the girls were not happy.  I wasn't going to let Friday night slip away like this.  So we got in the car and found ourselves at Chuck E Cheeses.  AWESOME!

Gwenevere went to Chuck E Cheese 2 years ago for a friends birthday party and she still remembers it.  So when we pulled into the parking lot she started screaming with delight.  Best impromptu girls night yet. 

Grace is recovering from a terrible ear infection and the poor thing did the best she could to have fun.  But she mostly spent her time on my lap watch Gwenevere have a lot of fun.

Grace decided to ride the Clifford ride once

and seemed to enjoy it.

a real SLOW roller coaster

Eating our Cheese and Olive pizza

Yep Papa wasn't there.

My snuggle bug

riding the Large rocking horse all together as our last ride of the night

Gwenevere discovered she really liked the shooting games.  So with Grace in one hand and Gwenevere in the other (the game was too tall for Gwenevere)  I held a machine gun, and two girls, while Gwenevere blew up ugly alien bugs.  (this is not my thing).  Chuck E Cheese thought we where having too much fun.  So he decided to join us.  Yes, I holding two girls and Chuck E Cheese on my right hand side, we fought a brave fight.  After the game was over Chuck E Cheese gave Gwenevere some free tokens and the fun continued.  It was a pretty awesome moment in my book.

When we got in the car Gwenevere told me her favorite part was, riding Clifford, taking pictures, riding the big rocking horse, dancing with Chuck E Cheese, riding more rides, running like a mouse (it was a big wheel you run inside,) drinking root beer (we don't drink a lot of pop), and turning in the tickets for a pretty ring and CANDY!

I think we all had a lot of fun.

baby belly #3

Our little one is the size of a lime and weighs half and once

We're 12 weeks along and baby's heart beat is going strong.  

Happy Moments

This weekend we has a chance to go over to the house as a family and do a little work

We brought over our slide and the girls played outside for 2 hours.  

I'm going to love having a yard

 James patched the roof and cleaned some gutters while the girls played. 

and I planted my Valentine flowers with the help of two excellent diggers

As of other good news.  I gave my 30+ day notice to my boss today.  The 45 minute conversation went well after my boss calmed down from the "short notice".  LOL  She is telling me I have to stay until May but I really really hope we're out of here before that.  In fact I'm not just hoping I'm telling you, we better be in our new home my April  30th or I might die.  LOL  Truth be told I'd like to move sometime between April 13-20th  that way I have enough time clean the apartment and get everything ready for the new manager to move in before the end of the month.  

James is working some more on the house today.  We where able to get a better idea of the renovation we'll be doing in the kitchen and bathrooms and later this evening James will be going to his Bee keeping meeting.   Happy Monday Everyone.

Fun on Friday

We had an awesome Friday that basically started on Thursday.

Thursday I took the girls Swimming and picked up the key to our new home.

We will soon live less than a mile away from our favorite swim center Yippee

Gwenevere helping me document our first House

After a week of work I wasn't going to let Friday go to waste

We went to the zoo with some friends 

After the zoo we decided we weren't done partying so we went to Mac Donalds for an hour and a half of playtime with our lunch.

Then we took naps in the car and drove to Chambers way to play in the ocean.

I love this girl's smile

I've never really care took much about what my girls wear as long as they have modest clothes on

It's fun to see their personality in the clothes they wear.

Making a big splash

Grace wasn't not a fan of the rocks and water

She preferred to be carried

yep, it was a pretty awesome day finished with bath-time swim-time

Now that's how I like to start a weekend.

Music to my ears

Thanks to our wonderful Grandma Sharolee.  We have a piano coming to our home.

Isn't she a beauty

Grandma Sharolee found her on craigslist and rounded a group of good looking guys to take her down three flights of stairs.  

Yep I'm pretty excited.  And now I'm playing with the idea of a painted piano.  What do you think?

House update

So now that we finally have keys to the house.  I'll be posting a lot of house updates on our blog.  If you get sick of seeing the updates don't feel bad I'm posting for my own remembrance and it probably will get boring real fast.

House update #1

James cut a hole in the girl's bedroom closet to create a crawl space and to see the roof from the inside.  Good news last time the roof was replace they replaced the entire roof frame, all the wood looks brand new.  A big hooray.  We'll probably be replacing the roof this summer, until than James got some roof tar to put on some areas of concern.  Since James can't even fit in the crawl space he'll be closing up the whole entirely but it's nice to finally know the real condition of the frame.