New Floors

As requested, here are some photos of our newly redone floors. More photos will come once Dave gets the baseboards done. But these will give you an idea!

We did these stripes just in our room and the hallway.


The living room and office floors look like Brychan's floors. Brychan's room just happens to be the most put together at the moment.

We made it!

30+ hours of sanding, almost a week of staining and topcoating, several splinters and 13 days later, the floors are finally done and we are back home. YAY!!! We are still in the process of putting the house together, and will get photos of the floors up ASAP. David did a beautiful job on them - he should be very proud!

In the meantime, here are a few Halloween photos of Brychan.

Nightmare on 2nd St.

So last week, I was SO excited because we were going to start refinishing our hardwood floors over the weekend. We were under the impression that it was going to take 2-3 days, so I packed suitcases for Brychan and I and everything else in the house was packed up and moved out.

We thought that the sanding would only take a few hours. Well, after 21 hours of nothing but sanding, the sanding still isn't finished. HOPEFULLY, Dave can get that done today. Then another day for staining, and 3-4 more days for topcoats (which we didn't know took so long until Friday night...information that would have been helpful much earlier), another day for me to wash down all the dust covered walls and THEN we can start moving everything back in. So. All the adorable Halloween photos of Brychan will have to wait for probably another week, as will any other posts. We are still alive - just buried in wood at the moment. My husband is such a trooper doing this pretty much by himself. And thanks so much to Jeremy and Michelle for letting us crash at your house for the week!! And I promise to get all caught up with the blog once our lives get back to normal!

Hulk Baby

Dinner time is always an adventure of sorts and it is NEVER quiet. Usually, Brychan is just grunting his approval of his dinner, but every once in awhile, he gets amazingly impatient and just wants his food RIGHT NOW. The line in Incredible Hulk that says "You wouldn't like me when I'm hungry..." That is SO Brychan. And that's the line Dave quotes during dinners documented in the photo below. There is quite the growl coming out of that adorable little mouth...

Witch Hunt

Earlier this week my friend, Marie, and I took the kids to Gardner Village to "hunt" for all of their fun witches. Our reward was 25 cent chocolate chip cookies. It was a fun way to spend the morning!

Ben, Sam, Brychan and Grace (getting all 4 of them to sit still all at the same time was practically impossible)

Little Haunts

A few days ago, we went to Heritage Park for their "Little Haunts". They have trick or treating and different activities in many of the buildings throughout the pioneer village for little children. I love autumn and Halloween and this was a perfect activity to "celebrate" both.

Growing and Growing and Growing...

My baby is now 7 months old. I can remember vividly what I was doing this time last year being 4 months pregnant (griping because my clothes were too tight. Funny - still griping that those same jeans are too tight). Where does the time go?!?

Brychan is crawling all over the place at record speed. He is also walking along the furniture and will even go from one item of furniture to the next if he's positioned correctly. The other night he stood up in middle of the floor all by himself. His doctor guessed that he would be walking by 9 months. I'm afraid she may be right. Or that it may happen sooner. He just does NOT want to be little! His two bottom teeth are in and he loves using them! His favorite thing to do? Dump the soil out of my potted plant, by the handfuls, onto the carpet.

Grandma and Grandpa Davis sent a fun new toy that just happened to arrive in time for his "birthday". It was a hit! Thank you Grandma & Papa...he loves it!