a catch up of old and new

It came to my attention that there was a post that i thought i had already put up with some pictures of our last meeting but evidently it didn't work so here are most of them. Also half way down isthe progress on the house.

james, jason, josh, ray, tom

just a few from our hall

joanna, sue & sherwin 

sherwin & robyn

leander & robyn

a.j. & ava

our literature counter brothers

our last dinner with josh's parents

Progress on house:

looking from dining room into living room

prepping master bath for tile

josh and casey built a stud wall for the plumber so he could run our lines for our washer and dryer on this wall 

can you find the hidden kids? adrienne and ethen are sitting in their rocketship

our car! 2003 saab 9-3 

most of the tile in place in the master bath

starting to look like a bathroom again

our bedroom! can you believe how much it has changed? we were just looking back at the photos from the beginning- see if you see them

josh's hand next a dead spider-yes these giant ones is what we have been finding all over the house, and it's been all the men that have been afraid of them!

my dad helping to sheetrock our closet, notice how straight his screws are lined up?

see how unlevel the wall is? poor amy had to build out several of the tiles just to make it level on the wall

josh really enjoying trying out his new mower

ethen with his tools for helping us out

josh and ethen bonding over cooking burgers

my mom's cat lola sleeping in her bathtub

the last ofThe demo and the beginning of the putting back together, kinda like Humpty's egg

So this past week i think has been harder then the last, well maybe physically. over the weekend my parents bought tile, so this week we have had to make 2 trips up to the store (45 min, away driving the trailer:), and then unload each pallet which weighed about 2-3,000 pounds. we also had to make 2 trips to Lowe's to get Sheetrock which is also very heavy and awkward bulky. Almost all this lifting fell on Josh and I and also with the help of my mom-she is such a go-getter sometimes i can't keep up!
At least the electrician was able to start and finish with fixing all the crazy wiring so the house won't burn down. The plumber is making good progress despite some major hiccups along the way. Our cabinets are all in thanks to a wonderful brother that came all the way down from back home in New Hampshire. Thanks again Danny-I can't wait to get into my new kitchen and start cooking, and next time your down i'll have you guys over for dinner.

Tomorrow we work on finishing stripping the flooring, just the dining room and kitchen left. Also we need to Sheetrock, mud & tape in a few rooms like our master bed & bath.
Once the Sheetrock is in we only have the tile to install and then we can move in. i told them as long as i have a bathroom, bedroom and kitchen i'm good and the rest we can finish bit by bit.

So enjoy the pictures and hope to hear from you all soon! Miss you all!

laundry room down to its bones

plumbers got a start on demoing the guest bath which we were going to wait on touching, but it turns out that  because laundry is to the left of this room and kitchen is to the right, they were running into some concrete walls-literally.  

our bedrooms stripped to it's bones and it's much brighter now, also our bathroom too

the guest bath - our friend jon was given the go ahead from my dad so he went to town. his final words, "remember your dad told me i could".

needless to say he had fun

jon found a hole around the drain for the shower but dad made it a bit bigger. you never know what you get into till you open it up.

what we found under the hole and the entire house. it turns out that the house started as a concrete block wall around edges with a few pillars in the middle and then they took a poured slab and stuck it on top then built the house on top of that-not a typically Floridian built home.

the last of the paneling josh found, it is the second layer in the hallway. we actually kinda like it but there isnt much left of it, so look out it may end up as a piece of art somewhere in the house later:)

the drain was fixed and the hole was filled

our cabinets and counter tops are in!

the cabinets will be red and walls are up for discussion-we want to do a 1950's style red, white and black kitchen

they moved the window in our bathroom since we are moving the vanity . so below the window will be the toilet and the vanity will be on the right side of it same wall.

our living room a bit cleaned up, with us stripping the floor-not an easy task.

Sorry for not posting pictures of our car either but we just got it back from having some work done on it, so i will save it for next post along with the pictures from this weekend.

What a week- or should i say 2!

So we have hit the ground running since we landed and then this week it started to catch up with us. We are doing good, just tired in the afternoon (which would be really early morning for Guam).  I'm going to post as many pictures it will let me without taking forever and will try to post the rest this weekend. For our new place we have been trying to take pics of every step of this interesting, fun and overwhelming journey.
The blog is supposed to be so those of you that are not living near us (and those who are that want to), can see whats going on in our lives but with out the impersonal mass email or the pain of feeling left out when not receiving emails. Since we both know so many people it is hard to keep in touch with everyone but we want to do our best to.
Please also do your part in keeping in touch. you can email us or even drop us a note on the blog. Hope you enjoy and keep in touch!

our good-bye early morning breakfast at dennys

blueberry cheesecake kitkat-only in japan, you must try some!

a little peice of guam with us

dont know where we are it was pretty

our new home!

mom and i in the dining room, to the left is the living room

guest bedroom (the nicest paneling int the house, and it was in every room)

kitchen-why can;t i get away from pink rooms in the last few places i have lived?

this is also pink and what you see on the wall is linoleum laminate & wood trim
the whole house was like this all hodge podge

whats left of a green house, not looking forward to finding out if there are rattlesnakes under all those plastic buckets

our shed-josh's i should say and can even hold his riding lawn mower

our laundry room/ art and music room
(are you seeing the trend in wood paneling and linoleum flooring?)

demo began-the entryway/dining room-hallway goes to bathroom on your right and then laundry room straight ahead and guest room to left

dad and josh having fun demoing the cabinets, they were glued and nailed on there tight!

josh and casey having fun 

alshia enjoying tearing the trim off and hoping to find more spiders

the result of our having fun-we still have yet to put it in the dumpster, although some of it will be burned

looking into kitchen from outside, we now have two new windows there

our couch we picked up last weekend at a yard sale-our first piece of furniture

kitchens done!

dining room done but holding our new unfinished cabinets

our bedroom, our bathroom on left and closet on right (will add demoed photo later)

half of our living room before (couch picture is after)

dining room looking into kitchen on left and living room through slider-dont worry the slider isnt staying

our huge front lawn and the road out front-now you understand why josh must have a riding mower not just a bushwacker

and cant forget the inside of our shed