Hello every one! It has been way too long, once again, since I’ve posted last. The last time I posted I was heavily pregnant and now our little girl is already 2 1/2 months old. Yup, I said little girl! Adley Ann was born June 15th. She was  7 lbs 9.9 ounces and 21 1/2 inches long.

Needless to say, we have been very busy since the arrival of Adley. Even though we are constantly busy we were able to tackle a few projects.

Here is a quick list of what we’ve worked on.

-Adley’s Room (Skim Coating, Texturing, Panting)

-Upstairs Ceiling (Shane put up the new stained wainscoting)

-Front Porch (Shane removed the 2nd door that use to go upstairs before the stairs were flipped. This also included adding siding and painting where the door had been.)

-Main Floor Bedroom Closet (Insulation, dry wall, skim coating, sanding, and wiring for lights.)

-Garage (Shane replaced quite a few areas of siding where the garage was rotted/destroyed by Carpenter Ants. He also rewired for our new lights to come on at dusk.)

-Upstairs Floor (Shane rented a sander and sanded the upstairs floor)

Notice how many times I said, “Shane…” My poor hubby has done 99% of the work. The only thing I can take credit for is painting Adley’s bedroom.

We do have quite a few projects we are trying to get done before Winter. For some of them we have hired a contractor who worked on our house when it “flooded.”

-Replace upstairs bathroom storm window and Adley’s bedroom storm windows. Strip, sand, and stain those windows.

-Replace/Fix the outdoor garage porch screen windows.

-Make window stops for Brendan’s windows. (When we redid his windows we discovered that his stops were made out of various pieces so we threw them out.)

-Install newel posts, banister, and hand rail.

-Finish the upstairs walls and stairway walls.

Realistically, not all of that will get done before Winter is here, but we can sure try!

In one of my last posts I talked about how we hired our neighbor (who owns a painting business) to paint our house. Well, they are still working on it, which is fine! Every time they were going to come finish it, the weather didn’t cooperate. The rain interfered at least 4 times. So fast forward to Fall and only the main color has been painted on the front and North side of the house. The white trim has also been done on the lower half of the front. I’m anxious to see if they will be able to get it done before the snow flies!

I will try and make another post sooner rather than later. Have a great weekend every one!