Finishing the French Door

Sorry I've been so bad about posting stuff as we made progress this week. I have to say it was one of the most exhausting weeks I can remember. I tried to go to work but was pretty distracted by all the fun and hard work at home. I guess it was almost a week ago - last Monday night, that we hung the French door. It took another day to get the molding up and painted and the wallboard fixed. Matthew as here on Sunday and Monday to help put it back together. They did such a wonderful and professional looking job, but all agreed they'd never do it again!

Painting

Meanwhile, Mommy and I have been painting. We painted Azra's bedroom and bathroom daffodil yellow, the downstairs vestibule beige, and stripped the hideous floral borders out of the bathrooms, primed the one bathroom that didn't already have white paint over the rest of the wall paper. Actually, Mommy did most of the painting - but I did the rolling in the bedroom and bath.

We also painted a bunch of miscellaneous furniture charcoal black to try to tie a lot of our random pieces together better. They came out so good I am sure there will be another round. I've been walking around the house saying "I see a table and I want to paint it black" ... "I see a banister and I want to paint it black" and so on.

Labor Day French Door Project

Mom and Dad came to visit to help with our first large scale intervention into the house. We are installing a French door between the family room and the bird room. Dad and Miran have been working on it for two days, calling Mommy and I in to assist every now and then. These pictures make it look like it goes quickly - steps 1, 2, 3 - but its really been quite a project with lots of trips to home depot and lowe's. Its after 9:00 and they are still at it down there. I think the door is actually in by now - I'll post pictures of that tomorrow. Then they have to put the wall back together!

New grill!

We benifited from an end of summer sale and upgraded our grill to go with our house. The little red one just wasn't big enough anymore! It was so hard to find a nice, big charcoal grill with storage space and counter space and a warming rack. There are hundreds of varities of fancy gas grills, but for us the whole point of grilling is to get that charcoal taste. We finally found one we liked at a good price and it is the latest addition to our carport!

Visit from Cecilia and Harald

Two weeks ago Cecilia and Harald visited for a much needed baby free week-end. It was Cecilia's first time away from the girls and both mother and twins did fine. We did lots of adult only activities - like eat in nice restaurants, get manicures, and stroll leisurely through the mall. I took a picture of them in my office at work which they stopped by to inspect