The Start of the Kitchen!

The last week had proved very beneficial to our house thanks to Spencer! He has finished the bathroom and started on our wonderful, and beautiful to be kitchen. The cabinets are a gorgeous maple in medium and soon our countertop will be measured and delivered as well. First of all, we have to get the flooring down and then the appliances will be welcomed joyfully into the room on Friday the 4th! I can't wait to actually have a working kitchen.

My husband has proved to be one handy-man. He has not only done all the tiling in the bathroom, installed the faucets and shower but he has run 2 new outlets in the kitchen and will attempt to move a vent from where the refrigerator is to the opposite wall. He has also installed all the cabinets here and it looks so good! Thank you my love!

Memories

So most of the posts have been about our house, but I wanted to throw one in here from a while ago. This is a video post of when the most amazing choir in which I sang in choir, The Indiana Wesleyan University Chorale, sang at Christ Fellowship of Indianapolis. I was the assistant conductor, and this experience (of being the AC) confirmed that I would love to conductor choirs for the rest of my life. I hope you enjoy.

Here are the pictures!

I have a few pictures to share with our adoring fans and readers. Since I am sure that I probably have the same reader count as the New York Times...but all of you are just too busy to post comments. I understand. But with all that said...here are some pictures. This picture on the left is of the bathroom wall almost finished! The photo on the right is one of the kitchen without the ghastly cabinets that graced us with their presence. And for the record, let me say that there was only part of a mouse under the cabinets. Most of it had already decayed. YUMMY!! And to wrap it up the last picture here is one of the bathroom more finished...not the best picture, but we will upload more later.

New and perfect!

Spencer just finished the bathroom last night! I have been recruited to finish the painting and the light still has to be hung, but, this morning when I got up, I went and took a shower. For the first time in our new home! It was perfect! I want to thank my wonderful, oustanding husband for loving me enough to go through all the hard work just to give me a desire of my heart. A bathtub. It is so beautiful and I hope someday you will get to see it. It was a long road, but in the end I know that spencer feels proud that he actually did all the work.
Today we get a new window to replace the foggy one in our living room and tomorrow our kitchen cabinets and countertop are being delivered! Hurray! Spencer and Grandpa Max tore our all of our old cabinets yesterday afternoon and I hate to mention it, found a dead mouse! ah! At least he was dead, that's all I wanted to know....

To those who need to know. I have the BEST by far husband in the whole world! He has conquered so much and has spent all of his hard earned time off this summer to rejuvenate our lovely home. I just can't imagine how wonderful it will all be once we can go home, cook, eat dinner, and enjoy our beautiful home!

*Pics to come, because of the lack of internet at home, and the fact I still haven't uploaded any pictures to put here, they will be added in the future.....thank you for your patience!

Bathroom Progress!

Spencer worked very hard on Saturday and got this done in our bathroom! It is one of the last peices in our remodeling process. I love the way it looks and am trying to imagine how sharp it will be when it's all finished! He is out of school for the time being and will be working on the rest of the tile this week. We should have a shower by Saturday or Sunday! I can't wait!

First

This is Stacia, I wanted to share a little bit about us and the Baby. I am now 14 weeks along (3 months & 2 weeks) It's both exciting and nerve wracking to think about all the changes coming and I am willing to accept them. Today, my body hurts. It's amazing how many muscles it takes to support a growing baby. I was told to sleep anyway except my back, and let's just say I'm already a back sleeper so no matter how hard I try I always wake up on my back! (sorry baby!) Then I notice I get tense instead of relaxed and wake up hurting because I wasn't really resting.

I'm finally over the morning sickness until I'm tired or hungry then my body tells me I need to either rest or eat. The sickies were very bad for me so i'm really glad they finally went away. We have heard the heart beat 3 times in the last four days. Twice when Spencer's mom was here over the weekend and once at my doctors appointment. The heartbeat measured at 156 and was so strong, I just want to smile and laugh when I hear it but if I do they always seem to lose it and have to find it again. The baby is a sly one, and likes to hide a lot. I can't wait until another 4 more weeks when I might be sent for an ultrasound. That will be a great day!

Spencer's last day of school is at John Marshall today, we stayed up last night making no bake cookies for the kids and finally collapsed into bed to fall asleep in a matter of minutes. I could tell Spencer was a sleep about 25 seconds after the light was out and his head was on the pillow. I told him to sleep when he got home, or mow the lawn unless it's raining. I really want to go out on a date to celebrate but we will see what we can do! It might be a better date night tomorrow night. Next school year Spencer will be a Manuel H.S. teaching choral and music appreciation. He's really into being at a H.S. and I can't blame him. From the sounds of Middle School I can't see how he has made it this far!

These pics are from our Family picture day with the Lloyds. It was a beautiful sunny day after a weekend of rain.

Herding cats

I have officially decided that herding cats (greased up, rabid ones) would be much easier than teaching my group of mostly 7th grade girls 5th period every day since mid February. When they are not screaming at the top of their lungs about wanting to beat somebody up, or shaking their booties in each other's faces they were almost teachable. I suppose the only thing that has been a positive, or at least one of the few things is that I feel as though since I have survived here, I can teach (and flourish) anywhere else. Speaking of being anywhere else, next year I will be at a different High School on the Southside. I am excited to be there for many reasons. The school is closer. They principal seems as though he is very excited for me to be there, and has told me that if I ask for an opportunity for my kids to sing, there will be one! For now though, I still have one more day of herding cats (greased up, rabid ones).

Home improvements

The other day I was working in the bathroom and I had to replace, or rather install...because my dad and I forgot...the plumbing for the faucet in the bathtub. It was fairly simple, it just involved cutting into the wall and measuring/cutting cpvc and gluing it all together. Now the hole is patched and I can start tiling on the wall. It is going to prove rather challenging because I want to do it on the diaganol. It will be SWEET when it is done, but for now, I'm a little intimidated. On the positive side, the floor turned out great, and now I at least have some experience under my belt. Here is a pic of my patched wall hole after the installation.

True Colors?

Today was "Nerd Day" at school. I, of course, participated! Stacia and I went to Goodwill last night and bought these suspenders and glasses. I tried to wear them with the lenses for a while on the end of my nose, but even then they were making me dizzy and making my eyes hurt. So to rectify the situation I popped out the lenses and they work much better. And to satisy the curiosity of my hundreds (or two or three) blog readers, I have decided to post a sweet pic of myself. What you can't see is the plaid pants I am wearing as well. Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the photo.

Some time off

So we have taken som time off of working on our house for the last week. Needless to say not much has gotten accomplished. Tonight, however, it is back to the grindstone. I need to stay dedicated to working on it because as nice as it is to drive to my in-laws, or my grandparent's every night to take a shower...it's getting old. Besides, I'm excited to take a shower in my own bathroom, surrounded by tile that I laid myself, etc. In any case, this whole process of destruction, rebuilding, fixing, re-fixing, etc has been great! I have learned so much, and still am. One question though, what happens when my dad is too old to crawl around in my crawl-space and do my plumbing for me. Hmm...hopefully, I can do it. Or better yet, I will have enough money to pay someone else to do it for me!

Speaking of the crawl-space, if you live in Indiana or the surrounding area, you will know that this part of the state experienced a monsoon this weekend. At one point in time I decided I had better check my crawl-space to insure that it was dry. Well, it certainly wasn't dry and it looked as though I had a little river flowing. So I get on the phone and start trying to decide what my next course of action is. A sump-pump? Probably not, says the expert (my dad), the first course of action is to try to re-direct the water away from the house. Looks like I might get a chance to do it tonight, more rain is on the way.

If you are a praying person, now would be a good time to pray, there are many people who are displaced from their homes for quite sometime, if not indefinitely. Some are gone from flood, others from the tornado that came less than a week before. But for now, lunch time...my paradise away from the students!

Our pictures - Updates to come!

Wanted to update all of our pics up onto our page. For your information, these pics were taken when we bought the house and it is beginning to look so much different already!

Even though most of it is because we moved all of our stuff in, but some of it is becoming so much nicer than we thought it could be. I was begging for a bathtub, not only for me (because I'm spoiled) but for the baby when it comes.

So, Spencer and his dad knocked out some of the drywall that had been put there for the shower and we have installed a bathtub! Spencer laid all new ceramic tile on the floor all by himself, and it looks awesome! Wishing I could post that pic here.......
Then we switched the toilet with the vanity so that it looks like a real bathroom. Spencer is in the process of tiling around the bathtub so we are still making trips to my parents house for showers. When it finally becomes finished it will look amazing! Thanks Babe!

In other news, we have ordered our Kitchen cabinets and they will arrive somewhere in the first week of July. They will be so beautiful and with the new flooring and countertops it will look like a whole new atmosphere. We are turning shabby into chic!

Hopefully will get to upload all the updated pictures of painting, remodeling and everything else involved VERY soon!

Just beginning

This blogging thing is new for both of us, but we really wanted a way to keep up to date with all of our friends and family out of town. We have bought a house, gotten pregnant, I'm starting at a new school next year and there is so much going on! On this blog you should expect to find before and after pictures of our new house, pictures of us (including Stacia's pregnant belly), and eventually lots and lots of pictures of our new little addition. Keep checking back often! Stacia will probably post more often than I will, but I will try. Thank you for your interest, and we really appreciate your prayers during this hectic time of our lives! Also, the pictures at the bottom of the page will change and actually be ours before too long. I'm not sure what is going on there...but we will have it fixed soon.