The Flood

So, Tuesday we had just had brand new carpet put into the bedrooms and finished the plumbing so that it would be ready for the final inspection on Wednesday morning.  I dropped Bryce off at school at 8:00 on Wednesday morning and returned home to find that the new house had flooded overnight. Mike rushed right home from work...and we all frantically vacuumed and whiped up the water.

I wish I had pictures of the water, however, it was just too stressful to even think about taking pictures at that time. However, we did call a restoration company and they came to our rescue right away.  Here is a picture of my upstairs office being dried by these enormous fans we had all over the house.

The biggest concern for us is the upstairs hardwood floor.

I told Mike that it looks like our poor house is on

"Life Support"!

This is crazy!  They taped all these pads down on the floor with all these long air tubes hooked to them to try and save the floor.  It stayed like this overnight last night.

Last night they closed up the house with several of those big fans

 blowing warm air throughout every room of the house overnight.

Early this morning I got up and walked downstairs to find that they had also wripped
out the sheetrock in our basement and had fans blowing there all night as well.

And here are the stairs after they ripped out the carpet. 

Hopefully we wont have to replace the wall that they stair case is connected to.

Cross your fingers!

So, basically the whole house was flooded, due to a technical glitch in the plumbing...(plumber to remain un-named). The top floor flooded and was creeping into the newly carpeted bedrooms about 1/4 of the way in.

But the water seeped thru the entire top floor and completely flooded the entire newly carpeted downstairs bedrooms and basement area.  We will have to redo the basement rooms and that will definately put us back.  However, we may get our main basement floor carpeted now if all goes well. 

 We may just do the work ourselves....ugh!

So, I guess you just never know what is going to happen when you take on a big project like this. 

My mother in law and I just hugged eachother and cried as we tried to figure out what to do next.

Luckily Mom discovered that the flood insurance on the construction loan expired on November 1st.

In just 4 more days!!!

My father in law looked like he had just lost his best friend for a few hours and then he was back at it again.

Working his tail off!  Love that Man!

Carpet is coming!

Okay, so I haven't really let myself get excited til now! Because carpet is coming and that means that we will getting a final inspection very soon and once we pass the final inspection we will be finishing up and getting ready to move in! In this picture you can see our new light fixtures above our mirrors in our master bathroom.

We originally wanted the mirrors centered and framed....one of those things that happens when you weren't there and you go ugh...oh well....we will just live with it. We are just happy to have mirrors....right?

Here are the stairs going down into the basement.  We wont be carpeting the main area of the basement right now however, the bedrooms are all about done and will be carpeted!  But!  I wanted to show you our staircase...Love it!

And here is the top part of the stairs...so pretty eh?

Another fun touch.  Our frameless shower doors....love them showcasing our tiled shower!

And last but certainly not least is the mirror tiled into the backsplash behind and above my kitchen sink!

And today we get our carpet in the bedrooms! Dad still have a few cabinets to make and install and then we will be done!  We will do a good cleaning and be ready to move in.  I am sure the Robinson's are anxious!

Trim and Baseboard

Mike is finally starting to put some baseboard and trim up in the house upstairs.  We couldn't stain the doors because they are not hardwood.  So we decided to paint them the same color as the walls.  We think we like it so far.

And here we have the inside of the master bath so far painted the dark, dark brown...no,
it's not black but it almost looks like it at first glance. 
We thought it was the best choice of color next to the hardwood color we have.

This color baseboard, trim and casing will be all throughout the rest of the house besides the hardwood stain color that is upstairs in the family room and kitchen. 

Here is a close up of the fireplace all bricked out and with the rustic wood mantle.

The colors are really starting to come together....slowly....but it's getting there.

What's been goin on

FALL

It's fall!  I know it kinda looks like Winter but if it was winter, there would be snow on the ground and the water would be frozen.  But this is pretty much what it looks like around here these days. 

 Snow on the mountains but still beautiful fall colors.

FOOTBALL

Football season is still underway.  Bryce's team is doing fantastic this year and he's having a blast!

Michael and Adam try to make it to as many of the boys games as they can.

I remember last year Bryce begged Mike to let him quit but he wouldn't give in.

I'm sure Bryce is glad he didn't quit last year now.

BTW...these cheerleaders are from the opposing team!

They all had to "hug Bryce"....here we go again.

CONFERENCE  WEEKEND

On General Conference weekend, Adam's sisters and their friends came up and stayed over night with us.

On Saturday morning I found them all set up in my office gathered around my computer watching conference and taking notes.  Awww....makes my heart go pitter-patter!

THE  HOUSE

As far as the house goes.....it's still going.  It's almost been a year now since we started building. 

We are doing something different in our house.  Since we had all of this great alder baseboard and door trim left over from another project Dad did, we decided that we would use it and the wood is nice stuff so you don't want to paint it so we stained it and decided to use a dark color since our cabinets are stained dark.  Anyway, this led us to having to decide what color to paint the rest of the trim and baseboard throughout the rest of the house.  So, we have decided to go dark everywhere.  Next post I will show you how this dark chocolate brown baseboard and trim is looking in the new house.

  I saw a sneak peek today and I think I'm gonna really like it!

A special text message....

Last night I recieved this text from my 16 year old......


Dear Mother...tis I Stephen, Thy seed upon which thy bounty doth fall upon in the years to come.  I am doing homework and will be home later...

Me:  Why dost thou speaketh with such boastful pride?

Stephen:   My heart doth swell with joy of hearing thy voice.  I express with exceeding confidence.

Me:  Thou art my most beloved son but thou must not speak of these things to they brethren or thou shalt perish.

Stephen:  As you wish your Majesty....

Now that's some good Texting!!

The house is coming along.....

Yesterday Mike and his brother Mark worked together all day on the house. 

Mark has been a great help with some of his ideas with certain areas of the house. 

He has done a great job helping to create what we really want instead of just

slapping something together. 

This week Dad did a lot of staining of the cabinets.  Here's a good close up of the stove top

on the granite in the kitchen with the new color on the cabinets.

Here's a view of how the kitchen is looking these days.  We should be getting the cabinet

doors and drawers in soon and then we will get a real picture of what our kitchen will

look like.  It's beautiful!  It's still coming slowly but surely.  We are thankful that the weather

has been good.  We need to get in there before the snow hits again.

Drag Queen?

Okay, so I have to say that the funnest thing about having teenagers is helping them come up with clever ideas for inviting or answering an invitation to a dance.  This is what we came up with for Stephen to answer the previous invitation he recieved to the Sadie Hawkins dance coming up.

We all got a big kick out of putting this one together!

Good Times!