More pictures from Murray

Wearing Uncle Danny's glasses!


Hanging out with Pop-Paw!!!

Me and my Grammy!

Harleigh and me!

Murray

Grammy and Pop-Paw have been wonderful. While we worked for 9 days straight on our bathroom they so graciously kept him in Murray for us (they even picked him up and brought him home) Matt and I had hoped to get a lot done this past weeked in the bathroom so we called Grammy and she picked him up for us on Friday morning. We just knew the bathroom would get finished this weekend. Yeah right. Did I forget to mention that I've had a sinus infection. I was in Convenient Care Thursday night and didn't really feel good until Saturday. Anyway Friday night matt and I took advantage of having a babysitter so we went to eat and then we came home and tackled the drywall. Thankfully we have a handy neighbor who has done drywall several times so he stepped in and saved our poor mess of drywall!! He and matt worked until nearly 10 pm. Then Saturday morning he and matt made 2 full trips to the dump to finish getting rid of our construction. So we were finally able to walk in the garage again! Then we decided to let the drywall mud dry an extra day so we headed to Murray about 1:30. Drove through several rain storms. We had a wonderful weekend. Here are pictures from this weekend!

bathroom

For those of you who don't know we have been in the middle of a bathroom renovation for the past 3 1/2 weeks. Unfortunately it is still not complete. Everything seems to be slow go and it seems like something "happens" all the time with the bathroom. Take for instance, after we got home last night from Murray, Matt happens to look through the existing hole in our kitchen ceiling (yikes) up into our bathroom and sees that we have a leak. Unfortunately the only way to fix the leak (since we've already enclosed the pluming) is to take out a section of dry wall. Go figure. So he and our neighbor Bryan worked on that for about an hour last night and finally were able to fix the leak. Sob Sob.... we've had nothing but headaches with this project. I'll eventually post pictures of the bathroom but right now it's not worth posting. Several months ago (before Gabriel was born) we realized that we would need to gut the bathroom not only for cosmetic reasons but for health reasons also (we had mold behind the shower tiles) So we had it in our mind that we would redo this in July when we took our vacation! Ha! Joke was on us. I think we picked the hottest week of the year. The heat index all week was around 110 degrees. But we got through it. Thanks to my wonderful husband we now have all new plumbing (we had the old 1950 origional galvinzed, now we have PEX) we have a "shower system" with the 10 inch rain head from the ceiling, 6 inch rain shower head from the wall and Gabriel has his very own hand held shower head. To this date we've installed the tile in the tub/ shower area and the drywall is almost finished.... we've gotten a little sluggish. I think mainly we just got really burnt out. So when we came home last night and found a leak it was disheartening. My poor husband, but he got it fixed. I will post pictures one day soon, I just prefer to post when everything is finished. I think we've vowed (me mainly) to never to a renovation project this big again. It's been a lot more than we ever imagined but it'll be worth it in the long run. The picture is of the tankless water heater being installed.

Playing with the camera

Last night Matt worked late so Gabriel and I sat out on our deck for a few minutes in the sweltering heat to take a few photos. He loves having his picture taken!

6 months

It's hard to believe that Gabriel is 6 months old. A lot has happened to him this month. He spent a week away from home at Grammy and Pop-Paw's house, he started Day Care, he's getting a tooth and I weaned him all in about a 2 week time span. He's sitting up by himself too! I took him to the doctor on Friday because he was sick and he weighed in at 17.9 pounds. He's getting so big!!! He's so much fun too. He loves to laugh and smile. He's learned to stand up in the tub (not a good thing) and he's scooting everywhere.