Gas Leak

While our carpet was being installed, I called the gas company to come check out a potential gas leak. Josh and Rudy had smelled some gas coming from the gas dryer hookup while they were tiling. I didn't realize it was such a serious process. As soon as I told the Questar operator I thought we had a gas leak, she said to leave the house immediately and connected me to their emergency line. They sent someone to our house within the hour. He walked around the house then went to the laundry room and started testing. Their was gas leaking everywhere. Not good. My dad happened to be in the area so luckily he was able to come down and talk to the Questar guy. They determined that the existing gas line that was put in was leaking at every joint. The Questar guy said we needed to take down all the sheet rock, replace the line, then redo the sheet rock, mud, and paint. Hmmm...not an option. So after more discussion they decided that we really didn't need a gas line since we have an electric dryer. My dad ended up spending the rest of the day capping of the gas line and replacing the gas line to the water heater. What an ordeal! I thought for sure we would have to wait to move in, but thanks to my dad he was able to fix the problem so we could move in on time. Thanks dad!!!!

Carpet!!!

Finally - the carpet came! I took the kids over to the house early in the morning so we made sure we were there for the carpet layers. They made it about 20 minutes after we got there and got to work. They were done so fast I couldn't believe it! As soon as they were done we couldn't help ourselves from rolling around on the carpet. It's the first time we actually been able to put Brooklyn down on the ground and not worry about her little knees. We kicked the ball, tackled each other, and just had fun for once. Too bad we couldn't leave the family room free of furniture. It would be a great play room!

Doors & Clean-up

On Thursday we had our door guy come and install all our doors. Thursday night we finished up the baseboards that were connected to the doors then we started the clean-up. We had a lot of help so it went fairly quickly. We emptied the basement and got it ready for the carpet.

Uncle Dave spent about one hour scraping the glue off our stairs. Brayden sat and talked to him almost that entire time.

More Tile & Paint

Crunch time started as we neared our move-in date. We knew we wouldn't be able to finish everything, so we started at the top of our list and tried to get as much done as we could. Josh & I spent a day painting the kitchen while Brooklyn slept and Brayden helped paint the walls.
Josh decided to quickly finish tiling the basement laundry room and bathroom. He spent two nights at the house until about 3am getting it done. Here's Brayden helping Josh mix the cement before we headed back to the condo for the night. Here is what it looked like after they layed out the tiles:
Doing the bathroom closet:
Rudy stopped by and helped Josh do the tricky drain. They did a fantastic job.

Baseboards

The never ending project continues. We don't have the doors in yet, but we decided to quickly do as many baseboards as we could. I painted them all last night, then we nailed them up, caulked, and touched up the paint. We'll have to come back and finish when the doors get put in. Here I am painting the baseboards with Brayden's help:We didn't have a nail gun, so there was a lot of pounding going on. Here's my dad and Ryan Tucker working on the rounded corners:

Here's the family room:

Finished Tile w/ Grout

We were able to finish the tile and grout in tonight. Although the grout looks ok in the pictures, it is much pinker than we expected. We have had many conversations about what to do about it, but haven't decided. For now it's staying put. We might end up staining it later. We are VERY happy with how it all turned out. The tile is perfect and looks great.

Tile!

After weeks of searching for the tile we liked, we found it at Home Depot. We LOVE the tile and it was in our price range, especially b/c I still use 10% off coupons on everything I buy there. Uncle Dave had a night off so he offered to come teach us how to do it. Thanks to Steve, Michael, Adam, and Uncle Dave for all their help. Here's Adam cutting the tile: Uncle Dave hard at work:

Bathroom: Steve:

The Crew: