New floor

Last year we put down laminate in our basement because the carpet was destroyed. We left the carpet hallway. Well, time for that to be fixed.

The hallway all torn up:

Hooking into the existing flooring:

In progress:

Looks great! 

the basement

About a month or so ago our basement decided that it would be ok to leak water up from the floor boards. A section of our carpet was wet so we pulled it up and tried to dry it:

A few weeks later it started to smell, so we had to cut a hole in the carpet:

We called about five companies to come out and give us an estimate on waterproofing our basement so we won't have wet floors.

We finally chose one and they came on Friday to destroy our basement.

Here they are digging a trench through the closet of one of our bedrooms:

Laying pipe:

 Re-concreting the floor. 

Here are the rest of the pictures if you are interested in what they did:

2010 November Destroying the Basement

Now all we have to re-stud, drywall, paint, and put down new flooring. 

Today

Today after school Nathan and I went for a celebratory dinner at an indian restaurant. I got the butter chicken, which was delicious. We then went to Rita's for gelato, and saw a nail salon, so I went to get my nails did, especially because my feet were so gross.after that we came home and I  re-sprayed for my big weeds in my beds, spot sprayed for moles, and sprayed some everything but lawn killer to see what happens. I'm ready to start planting some fall flowers and some grass seed to get my lawn looking neater. The hedge trimmer is great but now I need a ladder or something so I can reach the top of my tall bushes.

I also need to get out my fall decorations now that school has started!

outside

I came home to this:



The ugliest weeds/leaves were growing, but there are these HUGE flowers





Ugh we have moles:

Moving Day

Moving Day was yesterday. Now my house is full of too many boxes and too much stuff. I took off today and tomorrow to unpack and (hopefully) purge a bit.

House update

Love the house, just have been too busy this past week to really enjoy it. The movers are coming tomorrow, so we will have all of our lovely things, and then I will post some pictures and tell all about the great house.

For now, here is the before front:


It has been spruced up a bit, and there will be more to come.