Finished Painting

I haven't taken any pictures lately because we have really busy and I just haven't thought to. I'll try to do that soon.

I finished the last of the painting last night with the exception of the kids bathroom. They can't choose a shower curtain so we can't choose paint. I haven't painted the garage either. I'm going to do it later because it's a bit of a work/storage zone right now and would get beat up and filthy right now.

We ended up sending our hardwood back. We bought this 1/2" laminate in the Toffee Mahogany. We decided the hardwood would scratch too easily and I didn't want to live the next 10 years yelling at Colton every time he ran across the floor dragging toys behind him or forgets to take his shoes off and brings gravel inside. We didn't like the color of the hardwood anyways, and when the replacement shipment for the damaged material came in, it was what we had originally ordered in the medium color (they said they didn't have any more of). So we are tired of fooling with them and sent it back.

We are going to start putting the tile down this weekend and the laminate will be here Tuesday morning and then we will start laying it. Our contractor only has about four days left. Everyone is kind of in limbo until we finish with the floors so the pressure is on.

We got our appliances delivered Monday and I love them. We plugged the refrigerator up in the garage so we can keep drinks and snacks over there. We forget ice almost everyday and either go without or have to go back to town to get it so this will help out tremendously.

I got a really great deal on all of my appliances. The appliance store was having a tent sale and I was able to save about $1500 on all of them together plus I got a 4 year extended warranty. They are all Frigidaire Professional Series (which mean they have the same handles).

The stove is neat. It has a convection oven. It also has a digital readout above each burner that gives the temp.

This is the dishwasher. It has the food dispenser in bottom and it senses when the load is done so it will run more efficiently.

The microwave is really cool. He says you can't burn popcorn or anything else in it if you use the preset buttons because it shuts itself off based on the steam level inside and cooks things perfectly every time. We shall see.

Everything is going really good, just slow right now. We still think we will be in it right after Labor Day.