Other projects of the summer...

Before all the flooring, my other goals of the summer/spring were to make our spare room into an actual guest room with bed and all. :) This way I had a better place for grandparents to stay when they came to visit, and it was used every month this summer, each time with the bed in a different spot, or set up, but I'm so glad to have a place to easily customize to whoever is here. :) I also recently decided that I wanted somewhere to keep my sewing machine set up, so I reworked the room yet again. And am very happy with the result.

And, our Memorial Day project was to pull out a portion of the deck and patio out back and put in grass. I don't think I took any before pictures of the deck, but I do have a couple after ones here. We don't have a huge yard, but felt like by having more grass, especially next year when Jonathan is running and playing around, it will be more condusive to a toddler. :) And, yet again, my brothers got roped into our long weekend priject, they were such a great help to Jeremy and I, and we really appreciate their willingness to help out!

Pictures of the Cutie

And just yesterday he FINALLY started saying MAMAMAMAMA, however, it is not nearly as prevelant in his vocabulary as DADADA, but it's at least a start! :)



He wanted to play on the other side of the gate with Miles :)



My re-purposing of shelves in my house, he was able to pull the shelves off of the bookcase I had in there, so I had this shelf elsewhere, and swapped them. He likes how easily he can pull his toys off.



I thought it was naptime for him, he didn't so in his protest, he put himself in this position!

The Big Unveiling...

Well, here are the long awaited pictures from our Labor Day weekend project!! I took the true meaning of the word, and anyone that was willing I had laboring! ha, nothing like laboring a baby, so there should be no complaints!

We so appreciated all of the help from my parents and brothers, it was a blessing to have them all here working so hard and helping up to get this done by the end of the weekend, there were still a few small things to be done through the week but our house is now back in liveable condition!!

WE decided to go with the hardwood after we already bought new carpet, because with some of the signs of allergies that Jonathan has been showing, we thought this to be the best solution, and with no worries of it having to be replaced down the road. We are so happy with the outcome, and I love how it has totally changed the look of our house! Even my hand me down kitchen table looks better on the hardwood, and I think I can get a few more years out of it! :) It was amazing to me even when we put the kitchen appliances back in place, and how they just looked so different that they previously did on the off-white lino of before. OUr other new addition was a microwave. This was a great find, our old one went out the week before we did the floors, and I found this virtually new one off of Craigslist! woohoo! and it looks so nice in the kitchen as well!

And JOnathan is also loving it, he has learned that he can crawl even faster across the flooring, and has onld had a couple of bumbs and bruises. :)

Before...

During....

After...

More pictures, I hope...

Hanging out eating



Daddy's Study Buddy :)



Hanging out in the stroller during our walk at the dog park.



This is at the dog park, but I love this picture, we took Clair, my parent's dog and Miles there. And both had a blast running around, and Clair loved the water, Miles not so much. :)



A gorgeous sunset over Turnagain Arm one night last week when I was leaving the church after an event. so glad I had my camera with me.



Hanging out with Grandpa on the new floors - more to come of the flooring pics :)



Watching our first cross country meet.



Jonathan got to hang out in his pack n play alot during the flooring installation, and did a great job!