Work

Last weekend was pretty eventful. Scott had to give up bass fishing to finally put in the new laminate flooring that has been sitting in our basement for like 6 months. Thankfully we had some help from Travis, Cara, and Adalynn.


We pulled up the old carpet and pulled out several hundred staples.





The green stuff is the moisture barrier. And the flooring begins...

They got quite a bit farther than this before Travis and Cara had to leave. Now Scott is thankful he married someone who can use a table saw (and any other saw for that matter). :)

We were able to finish up the living room that night - only about 12 hours after starting. (Thankfully Travis helped move the entertainment unit before he left because there was no way I could lift it.)We took Sunday off from working and played Scrabble instead. We're nerds. :)
Scott finished up a little more before heading down to the lake on Monday.

He finished most of the hallway monday night and did another board or two a night until finally finishing it completely this morning.

Today his dad is here helping with the kitchen flooring. Pictures later...

We forgot three pets in our last post. This is Jimmy and Patrick.



Jimmy

Pets

Hey all...Scott here. So, yesterday we went out and got a new camera...Nikon D60. And no, the recent commercials with Ashton Kutcher had nothing to do w/ it...honest! :) Anyways, we shot some pics of the pets we thought you might enjoy. Feel free to make offers on them! ;) j/k

Married Life

Well this post is a little belated. I'll start with the wedding... :)
The day went absolutely perfect, at least from our point of view. On the drive to hotel Scott and I talked about how blessed we are to have such awesome family and friends. We were quite overwhelmed with the helpfulness and generosity of everyone - we didn't have to worry about anything the whole day!

We don't have the disc from Peter (the photographer) yet. So here are some from Jerilynn (and I think some other people too but I'm not sure who took them).









And the honeymoon... People keep asking how it was and it seems like such a distant memory. But it was great, I wish we could go back.




I think we settled into a routine pretty quickly after coming home. It was strange the first couple nights realizing that he didn't have to leave. And a little rough getting used to sharing a bed. :) But we are both sleeping better now. Now we are keeping busy painting and soon putting in flooring, fixing the bathroom in the basement, etc. I'll take some pictures soon and update with some before and afters. So far the painting is looking great. We've been looking at houses in the area and will probably list the house once all the work is done. Scott got accepted into a masters program at U of M so we were going to potentially move to ann arbor for that. But this week we found out that GE will give him a leave of absence but then will not reimburse the tuition - they will however reimburse the tuition if he continues working full time. That's not really helpful for our situation so Scott had to decline. Its too bad but I'm so proud of him for trying!