YAY! Tom and Jamie worked ALL DAY (and I mean all day) hanging these doors. Next time you see them you must admire them! Our house is so old and crooked that they had to keep adjusting, shaving and rehanging the doors just to get them up and so that they could open and close. Sounds easy but when the left side of the ceiling is lower then the right and the floor slopes even more and the wall slopes an evewn different way.. well they finally stopped trying to use the level. Anyways the doors are flush now and that is what I wanted!!! Jamie and I are going to try ripping down the wood panelling and hang new drywall ourselves in the next couple of weeks... wish us luck!!


While the boys were working on the doors, my mom came over and helped me work on the wall paper. We finished the hallway room and the kitchen (Barbara came over to help too! Remember Barbara? She's the one that started it all with the wallpaper!) WOW, that wallpaper was disgusting...

I started on the dining room, here is the before pic.

Here is a great example of be careful when undoing something on a house. There might be a good reason someone did it. When I removed the wallpaper I found nasty, bubbled paint underneath... I think I will copy my friend Katherine and throw up some bead board to cover it up....

As you can see, they got alot more done! YAY!!!! There are closet walls now! The doors are scheduled to go up next weekend. Both Jamie and I got to use the saw and nail gun, being a homeowner is so much fun! Well, except for the spending money part....
The other exciting thing this weekend was my grandma buying a new van to replace her old one which she had for 16 years (WOW!!!) She's only been talking about a new for about 5 years now! So this is well deserved. It's got so many bells and whistles, the best being the navigation system and the rear view camera. Very cool.

Here is one of our new visitors....




And our guard cat that scared him away... she's keeping watch for more...

So we got alot done this weekend! (We meaning Jamie and Tom) The next big project on the house is to remove the wood panelling from the hallway room, hang drywall and then paint it all a pretty color. Well the doors to the laundry closet were hung on the outside and not flush so I wanted to fix that. Well my perfectionist uncle (God bless him) took that request and ran with it. We didn't just remove the doors... he removed the whole thing!!!!
There were also some holes in the wall about 2-3 feet wide that he and Jamie cut out and replaced with new drywall so that animals can't get into our house! They also redid the plumbing fixtures for the washing machine and, oh yeah... built a new wall! Jamie has never used a nail gun before so he had a great time! This project that was supposed to be one weekend will probably go into 3. Keep your eyes out for more pics! Cousin Jeff came by to visit and saw this beautiful sunset least night....

There was sunshine in my bedroom this morning!!! WOW! That is a new thing. THey started working on the Eucalyptus trees in the back yesterday and WOW! I cna't think of a better word. Just WOW! The poor tree looks so bare but it looks so healthy. They said it will take about 6 months for the foliage to grow back in but the trees definitely needed this. They are cutting off everything that is bending since the branches are supposed to go up and removing the fourth, smallest tree in the corner. It will be a new start for the trees and our backyard! I can't wait to put some new plants back there, maybe even some grass. I don't think the squirrels are happy though :(

Here is a before (well it is the trees next to it that are getting done today)


and here is the after:


here is what they look like together:


and just for the fun of it, another shot of my pretty plumeria plant!!