We finally got the girls moved into their new room on Thursday! It was a super exciting day for us. We (me and Ky) have been up until at least 1:30 in the morning and sometimes till 3am working (for the past couple of weeks) on getting them down there by our goal. We made it! Wednesday Harriet, George, and my mom came over and helped paint. We put the carpet in Wed night, it was suppose to be Thur morning but there were technical difficulties. Thur Kaite spent all day helping put on the outlet covers and cleaning up so we could move down there, the in laws came up that night and we successfully moved them in. Here are a few pictures.
Harriet and Kaite.
I really enjoyed spending time with Harriet and getting to know her better- she is so funny! I also loved hearing about the wedding details, I am so excited!!
Kaite installing the outlet covers.
Kaite enjoying her new room.
Kami enjoying the new room.
Ash just chillin on her bed.
So I have had a lot of questions on the basement and I will clarify a few. I think everyone seems to be confused as to why it has taken us so long to get to this point, unless you saw the original product! The first is the work we had to do. Ky said that most unfinished basement pretty much just need walls and a few other things and then they are ready to go, not ours. Our basement use to be the house, a basement house, which had been previously done and then TRASHED. We had to start by demolishing everything down there. We hauled out over 350 intact cynderblocks, previous walls. We had to pull out all the old duct work, nails, sheetrock, then we had to clean it and spray, you name it we did it. We had to get to the "start over" point which is where most basement are to begin with, this took us months. Which brings me to my second point of time. We spent the majority of our "work" time down there on nights and weekends, this doesn't accomplish much when there is tons to do, but every little bit helps. When we finally got to the point where we could do the fun work and actually build things went pretty quickly. Although, we did change the floor plan like three times, but we got it right and love it. So, now we have the girls in the one finished room in the basement and we do still have some work to do on it. The planer blades are sharpened and should be here any day, this took about three weeks longer than they estimated! So, the trim is not in yet, but should be in next week- cross your fingers. Anyway, we are still building shelves in the storage room, but the floor is in. We are hoping to have all the shelves built this week and then the storage room will be completely finished. The girls just need trim and then we are stacking the beds again, for floor space, then we just need to get all the decor transferred and up and their room is completely done! The stairwell needs some touch up painting around the top, which I can't reach, and it is done minus carpet. The hall is done, we put can lights in, dropped the ceiling, and painted. That is our stopping point for now. We will continue to work on the basement over the summer and throughout the winter but we need to get the garden in. Okay, so the other confusing thing is that the basement is not entirely finished. I keep talking about having the basement finished and I mean finished to the point which we where shooting for. We still need to finish two more bedrooms, a bath, and the family room. We are not finishing the bedrooms or living room until next year. The reason- we need to cut and install the egress windows and we are paying for London first. So, in the mean time we will finish the bath down their and start putting up the sheetrock we can put up, all the walls we can build will be up. We are hoping that once we cut the windows we will just need to frame and sheetrock just those three walls and then we can start painting. So, we have a ton to work on over the next 10-12 months. The stairs will get carpet when the family room gets carpet. Chad said we need to do that for two reasons 1. the color may not come out exactly the same because they will be off two different rolls and the dye may be different 2. the carpet on the stairs will get hashed from all the construction. So, we will carpet the rest of the basement all at once. I hope this clears up the confusion. I will have to post more pictures later, it is late and we had a long busy weeked. We spent the weekend with Ky's family and so I have lots to post and say. I am also tired and hope everything made sense!
I have been meaning to post this picture for awhile and have been too busy to do it. This is Ash driving the lawnmower. We taught her how to mow the lawn a couple of weeks ago, she does a great job and just does the basic easy parts. She is so proud of herself!
Tuesday was Ash's dance recital. They only had one song and learned it in just ten weeks. Most of the kids have never taken dance before, I thought they did very good. I will say that the practices are definitely better, the kids get so nervous. Ash really practiced hard and knew her dance very well.
Today is the last day of school- I am so excited! Ash is not. At their assembly this week Ash got a couple of awards. One of the awards she got was the Teacher's award. The teacher picks one girl and one boy from each class to get the award. Ash got picked. I am so proud of her she is such a good student. I can't believe my baby is going to be a second grader!
