Demo

Here are a few shots after the demo today. I had some help. Waymond came home today and helped. He's a bit better at the demo than I. We accomplished a lot. We have a good 4 feet on the other side of the wall in the bathroom. We aren't sure why they just walled it off, but we are planning on using it.

You can see the shelving area that is behind our previous wall.

Remodel

We are beginning a bathroom remodel project. We have not loved our upstairs bathroom since purchasing our house and we knew it would be the first thing to get a make-over. But when we found out that the shower is leaking into the downstairs closet, our remodel is happening sooner than we thought.

Since Waymond is the remodeler in the family he'll be doing most of the work, but I was raise by a father who taught me many skills. Thanks Dad! So, I am the demo girl on this project. Because things are slow at work at the moment I am getting off work at 2:30 and my plan is to come home and demo the bathroom for a couple of hours a day until its finished. I started yesterday, but today did some birthday shopping for a friend instead. Here are some before and some after shots on the first day.

I didn't get too far; I mainly ripped off the trim and tore out the shelving. I starting prying the mirrors off, but I didn't have my dust mask on because my goggles were foggy and I thought eyes more important to protect. A piece of mirror flew off and got me in the lip, so I called it for the day! No worries, it just bled for a minute or two and then done. Only a little purple today and no swelling. Very minor! Waymond is threating to take my picture with all my work clothes, mask, & goggles.

Oklahoma

We just returned from a trip to Oklahoma for my dad's 70th birthday. It was a short trip, but we had a great time and sweated A LOT! We arrived, after a long delay in Denver, CO at 2:30 am in Tulsa. The temp was 86 degrees! 86 is hotter than we've had for a high in Tacoma in weeks. I think we've become accustom to the cooler temps.

We went bowling for my dad's birthday, my mom was trying to find something to do inside. We had the best time. Waymond was the high scorer at 157. We were all excited to just break 100! I'm sure everyone at the bowling alley thought we had lost it, we were giving high fives and clapping anytime more than a couple of pins were knocked down.

Sorry to all our friends in Tulsa we did not see while we were there, we spent 100% of the time with family. Next time!

Here are a few shots: (Waymond is recouping from all the playing he did with our nephews)

Waymond spent one night in Muskogee with his parents and right after he left Noah, our youngest nephew, said to me, Leigh why does Waymond have to go see his parents? I'm sure both nephews wish that Waymond lived next door to them, but I'm guessing that Waymond would be exhausted most of the time if he did!

How cute is our youngest niece? She really likes Waymond too, but he doesn't wrestle around with her!