The missed Derby

Today was Seth's Pinewood Derby Race. He and his dad stayed up late last night getting the car all ready. How exciting, it will be Seth's first race. He and Jared designed the car and the racing stripes.

Only problem...Seth started throwing up about 9am this morning.

So, now what? Well Mom and Dad suggested that we go and race the car for him to see how it would run. Seth was excited that it would get to race. We video taped the whole thing and brought it home for him to watch.

Seth's car came in underweight. So Louie glued some money to the bottom of the car to add weight. Two nickels and a penny to be exact.

Placing Seth's car for racing.

The race track

The Finish Line

Seth's car is the farthest over. It says 0 place because he hadn't quite made it over the finish line yet. He got 2nd place in this race. Each time your car comes in 3rd place you get a sticker put on the bottom of your car. When you get 3 stickers your car is out.

So how did Seth's car do?

Overall his car came in 4th place. All the adults got to vote for "Best of Show", meaning the car that looked the best. Seth came in 3rd place in best of show. He got this ribbon and a chocolate bar. Good Job Seth!

Wanted: Reliable Tooth Fairy

We have decided to accept applications for a new Tooth Fairy. We really have hired a dud of a fairy. She is never on time, in fact sometimes we have to wait weeks for any money to appear and we have had to actually call her and remind her of our waiting teeth.

My children have grown accustom to the fact that we might have to wait a while and don't even check to see if any money has arrived. AND she doesn't even take the tooth???? Who has heard of a tooth fairy leaving money and the tooth. What is with that?

Please help...any recommendations will be greatly appreciated!

Bathroom Progress

Two and a half weeks into our project and it is looking really good. I wanted to update our pictures. I would like to admit that I actually help in some way, but I am afraid that I have nothing to contribute in the way of handy skills. I just give moral support when needed and hand over tools every now and then.

Sam and Jake have been using our bathroom in the mornings to get ready and I think that is what motivates Louie to come home every night and keep working.

Our cabinet guy called today and said that the vanity is in and waiting to be picked up. Maybe we can get that and a new sink this weekend. I am anxiously awaiting our profit sharing from work or this new stimulous package that is going through the senate so we can pay for this project!

Stay Tuned....

Waterproof sheetrock is going up throughout the whole bathroom.

Toilet is out!

Shower is out!

A view from inside. Looking out into our family room.

A black shower? No, not really. I actually missed a picture here. Didn't get down in time with my camera. It was grey colored from the special wall covering that has to go inside a shower. The black is actually a waterproofing sealer that you apply before installing the tile.

1/2 Way up with tile. I love this border. It has blue glass pieces in it.

Oh, so pretty. The black space on the right is where Louie is installing a shampoo shelf. He needs to polish the piece of granite he is putting in for that and then it will be time to grout.

A New Project

I was figuring out today that this coming March we will have been in our house for 6 years. Wow! That is the longest we have been in one place since we got married almost 19 years ago.

We recently had a quote done on storage cabinets for our basement. We are excited to get going and finish some projects we have been wanting to do. But, before we get the cabinets we have to do some prep work. Namely we need to move our downstairs bathroom door to another wall to make room for our wall to wall cabinets. Well, we got to looking at the bathroom and thought it might be a good idea to just rip out a few walls and make the bathroom bigger. We added about a foot to one wall and almost 2 feet to the other. Yeah!

Here are the demolition pictures. I hope to post pictures as we go along.