To Spokane and Back - Excuses

I have great excuses as to why I have been absent. After going to Michael's graduation down at BYU-Provo, we brought Courtney and Will and all of their stuff up here to Washington. We unloaded most of their things into our RV - who knew it would make a great storage unit! And then they stayed with us for a few weeks until their apartment was ready for them in Cheney. Erin flew down to Provo on September 1st and Brad moved the Keeler's up to Cheney on the 6th. We had lots of fun - playing games, going to Silverwood, just visiting, shopping, getting ready for school, etc. Zach had stayed in Provo to spend time with Michael and to go to Education Week. He flew to Spokane - his first airplane flight - on August 23rd. So in that time period we went to or through Spokane four times.

We did check on the progress of our house periodically during that time period and here are a few pictures from then: The Master Bath Tub
Our Pantry
Stair Well
From the back door across the family room and the stairwell at the back.
The Front of the House with the beginning of a front porch.
It was nice to see walls instead of just studs. From the time we left Courtney and Will up in Cheney we have been working like crazy. We had to spend time picking out light fixtures (that is an extremely boring date), and picking out paint for both the inside and outside of our house. We had picked a friendly yellow for our outside but the painter said that we won't be happy with that particular color in a few years as it fades in a short time, so we went with a gray color. I also met with the closet guy and we figured out what we wanted for each closet - just basic stuff, we aren't very fancy. Then Brad and I have spent nearly every spare minute at the house painting doors, closets and trim and baseboards, and the living room and the girls bedroom for the past two weeks. The doors we sprayed except for the pantry door, but everything else we rolled with rollers. It sure seems like we are short the pocket door that goes into the living room so I don't know if we still have that or not, and I have about 20 more baseboards to paint. Who knew there could be soooo many and they need at least two coats of paint.



Our kitchen cabinets got delivered to the garage one of the days I was there painting. (Also the bathrooms and laundry cabinets as well.) They just kept on going and going and I thought the trailer would never empty.


Every time we go out to the house Conner uses the facility. Figured this was good bribe/embarrassing moment when bringing home dates type info.
Our Painted House
We actually have a street sign so people don't have to wonder where Jacobs Lane is any longer.
Conner's first day at MCP - he is so excited to be able to go to real school and wishes it was every day instead of once a week. I guess he hasn't learned about homework yet!