In case you were wondering what we've been up to......

Yes, we really did have to take out shingles on the inside of our new house!  It is actually MUCH EASIER than horrible glued on wallpaper!!!  The kids loved pulling it out!

Trying to get horrible wallpaper off of the stairway walls!

Kathy Jackson just came to see our house but was quickly put to work.

You can see Alice is in there too!

Our new little town.

Grandma Patsy is the wallpaper whisperer....she was amazing at getting the WORSE wallpaper off!  She spent days peeling, scraping and soaking those walls.

Master Bathroom.  Two things to notice, the floors and the nice metallic gold and silver wallpaper which was underneath the first layer of wallpaper.  Any ideas on how to get that off?  Patsy even tried without success claiming that we would have to just wallpaper over it!  And what's up with the vanity in every house in this area...do women actually have time to SIT and put on their make up?

Look!  No wallpaper.....Ramon worked hard patching and prepping this wall!  This is a picture of our flooring crew.  This poor guy spent two days sanding these stairs!

I would like to point out the baseboards that I alone pulled out throughout the entire house!  It was actually fun....not wallpaper!

Erik studying the door frames.

Grandpa Ramon teaching Erik how to put in door frames....can you see the beautiful job he did behind them?  They look amazing and it took Ramon days and days to get those on!!!

Kate doesn't like the loud noise the nail gun makes.

Sammy trying to learn as well!  Grandpa let Sam do some sanding for the framing, you should have seen his face.  He loves this stuff!  Again notice the nice metallic wallpaper closer up.  Kate's having fun!

Jose and Luke ripping up our kitchen floors.  They took a wall out and the drop ceiling out in a matter of hours!  Again do you see Sam taking notes?

A view of the nice laminate flooring that was placed just so we could get our loan approved.  Not keeping that around!

The kitchen with wires hanging from the ceiling, sub flooring and exposed pipes!
For our weekend, Erik will be tiling with our real estate agent in our master bathroom.  He is, as I type (yes it is 10:45pm), placing flooring in the bathroom and screwing in screws every 6 inches for a nice even floor.....sound like fun?  One day we will sleep again.....just not tonight!
I cannot express our gratitude to Patsy and Ramon for all of their help!  Erik told me when they left he felt a huge weight on his shoulders!  They carried our burdens for a week and a half!  We are so blessed to have their talents, expertise, service and love.  They are such examples to us about how to live and serve and make the world a better place.  We love you Grandma and Grandpa!