Our House is Looking Good!

We finally got the house carpeted!  We've been planning on it for several years.  We just didn't want to go through the pain and torture of moving EVERYTHING out of the rooms to get the job done.  We decided to celebrate getting my new car paid off by getting new carpet!  We originally planned to go through Home Depot to buy it and have it installed.  (That turned out to be a total pain in the neck, and it didn't happen.)

While we were waiting for Home Depot to finally set up the appointment to get the carpet installed, I called Keith Foutz and asked him to fix a couple of big cracks in our bedroom before the carpet went down.  He said he would, and in the meantime we planned on painting the Green Room.  After we got everything out of the Green Room, we saw that it needed more work than we could do, so we hired Keith to re-mud, texture and paint for us.  He also put a new frame around the doorway, and put in new baseboards.

While that was going on, we wound up cancelling everything with Home Depot because it was turning into a whole huge project we didn't waant to do.  Keith got us together with a different carpet company, and the whole project was done in a week.

During this time, Brian had meetings in Ruidoso, so long before we even started the project, we planned for Chelsea and the boys to come over while he was gone.  We just never dreamed all this would come down the same week.  We loved having them here, but I bet they were really glad to get back home after all the mess we had around!  I'm ready for them to come back to have the relaxing week we planned on in the first place.  (But I'm also glad they were here for the rest of the adventure!)

I didn't take any pictures before the walls got painted, but here's the room before the carpet went in.

This picture doesn't even begin to show the mess we had piled up everywhere.

I was happy that KFC still had its $2.99 Chicken Fried Steak special on Tuesdays! 

Cooking was pretty much out of the question!

My little lovebug laying on the rolls of carpet!

While the workers were laying the carpet, we needed to be away from the house and out of their way.  It was supposed to be all finished in one day.  We could handle one day!  Here we are at the library!

We me Grandad at McDonald's for lunch!

We went to Splash Time at the pool!  (We couldn't take pictures in the pool area, so we snuck a couple in the dressing room!

We spent a lot of time in the Nursery at the church.  I think this was probably David's favorite part!  But we got the news that it was going to take another whole day before the carpet was done, so the next day, we kind of had a repeat.

We met Grandad at McDonald's for lunch again.

This time, we stayed and played in the play area for quite awhile.  (We inspected it first to see if it was clean!)

Along about nap time, we went to a movie... Sherlock Gnomes.  I wouldn't have ever chosen this as one to see in the theater, but it was the perfect place for two little boys (and two grown women) to get in a bit of a nap on our second day away from home!

David slept on the floor in our room.  He slept with Mickey in his arms the whole night!

Look, it's done!

Now that everything is done and put back into place, we love it!  It's beautiful!