Oh Little Gracie!

I would like to title this picture "Little Gracie in the Mornings"!

Work in Progress!

So I have been in the house a week and a half and I am LOVING IT! Here are a couple of pictures i took earlier in the week. I will post more as i get more done. The bathroom looks amazing thanks to Mom and her sewing abilities! Isn't the curtain and sink skirt way too cute!?! THANKS MOM! More of Mom's sewing! This is a fix for the problem of the dishwasher and fridge needing to be separated (the fridge wouldn't allow the dishwasher to open if it was left in the spot it was intended for)! So we put a table there and Mom made a table cloth that matched the curtains (that she also made). So the big news of the week is I GOT GRACIE BACK! She is adjusting to her new home very nicely! She loves to sit on the back of the couch and look out the window. She will sit there and watch all the cars go by.

But when she gets tired of that she loves to lay on the couch and watch the Olympics!

And of course I can't forget the Capo man! He is over 70lbs now and getting bigger everyday! I can't imagine when he gets to be 100 plus pounds!
He likes to paw.....it is a bad habit that I taught him!

And don't worry he still has his blue eyes!

House Update!

Okay, I have no pictures to post on here right now but I thought I would update everyone on the house status (Are you happy Carrie Beth). As of last night the major portion of cleaning and "finishing touches" was completed! We are moving this weekend!! FINALLY! I am going to Hamilton tonight to help pack the truck and trailer, then coming back to T-town Friday morning. That means that last night was my last night to stay at the apt!
I also got my camera back finally! I will take some pictures of the house and post them on Monday! It looks completely different!!! I am so SUPER PUMPED for this to all be over and be able to enjoy being a homeowner!

Flooring! Flooring! Flooring!

I finished the floor in the kitchen and the computer room this past weekend!

This is me working on the floor! My back was killing me from cutting and placing the tile around the edge of the rooms.

And of course I had help! Gracie and Lucy helped me make sure the tiles were sticking properly!

The highlight of the weekend (other than the floors getting finished and the plumbing in the shower getting replaced) was Gracie's new spot in the kitchen. I looked over at her and she was laying in my pantry! It was way too cute.

Apple Green Kitchen......

Here it is! My apple green kitchen (no joke, the color is Apple 5). My mom is in town once again this week to try to finish at least the kitchen, computer nook, and both bathrooms. Yesterday she finished the walls in the kitchen. Doesn't it look great! I am in love with this color. So much so that I am painting the computer nook this color as well!!

Also over the past few days, I have decided that I would love to be a dog. Look how relaxed and comfortable they are! This is what I want to do the first weekend after I move into my house! Although I might roll over like this out in the sun so my pasty white skin might have a chance to get a little tan this summer (seeing how I have only laid out 3 time since May)!

Look at the Capo-Man! We think he is up to 60-something pounds now!

This is Hank! I dog-sat him over the holiday weekend. He was the funnest dog in the house. Hank and Tank (Lee and CB's toy poodle) played for HOURS! When we got back to Tuscaloosa, Hank was so tired, he jumped on the couch and did this. He is way too cute!!

What a difference some paint makes!!

The Cabinets are done!!! Look how great they look! My mom and Carrie Beth were able to get these up in no time. They all look so great and the kitchen doesn't even look the same!

Here is a reminder of what they looked like before!!
So this weekend I had a full house of help. My mom and dad, my brother and sister-in-law, and of course the puppies all came to help! We got alot of things accomplished and hopefully will be done for our August 1st, 2nd, and 3rd moving dates! I still have a lot to do before then, but I am going to make it happen!

Here are some more pictures from the weekend!

This would be Gracie ready to go home! She was tired of being out of her element and was on guard the entire time!

This is a hard picture to see but it is of Lucy and Tank sleeping next to each other! Lucy would not let him near her for the most part, but towards the end of the second day of working, I don't think she cared any more!

I replaced my light fixture in the kitchen! I had a short florescence light in there but I wanted some spot lights! The new fixture is almost blinding if you look up at it, but that kitchen needed more light! Also replaced this weekend were the bathroom lights and ceiling fan in the computer nook! Thanks Dad and Lee!

And no blog would be complete without a picture of Capo man! He is growing and growing and growing!

Still working!

I am still working on the house when I can. This weekend I plan on being there quite a bit and then next week my mom is coming into town! She is planning on staying Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and helping me with the house. I am going to take off Monday, so hopefully a lot will get done!

Also I would like to tell you about the A/C problems that have been following me around the past two weeks! For 5 days, the A/C was out at my work place. There is some construction going on around the corner and the people working on the building hit a main water line. Considering how old this campus is, the line that was broken caused 3 buildings to be with out air! It was miserable. Two of the days we left early and the rest of the time was spent in our main office in the Ferguson Center.

So while the air was out at work, I went home one day to find the air was also out at my apt. I called for them to come fix it. The unit was frozen over! Of course they came the next day (last Thursday) and it was up and running by that afternoon. Well I get home Friday and it was OUT AGAIN!!! At that point I was mad cause I knew they would not come look at it till Monday! Thankfully, I had planned on leaving for Hamilton anyways, so I turned it off and left. They came again on Monday and said they fixed the problem.

**On a side note: I have been living at this apt for 3 years now. I have personally called about the A/C at least 40 times over the past summers. I have also tried to get them to replace the whole thing cause it does not cool like it should, but they are cheap cheap people that would rather not fix anything unless absolutely necessary.**

Anyways, this past Wednesday it went out again!!! (3 times in one week!) I called the anwsering service that night and called again the next morning. I spoke with a man and told him the situtation and the replied was "Oh yeah, I worked on that unit on Monday. I know what is wrong. The compressor has gone bad. We will probably have to replace the outside unit." ARE YOU KIDDING ME! That man left my apt on Monday and said the air was fixed and 3 days later he tells me he knows what the problem is! Why didn't they correct the compressor problem to begin with?!? Yesterday, they came and charged the unit so it would last until they could replace it. This story ends today (hopefully) with the apt getting a new outside unit! I am going to call around lunch and check on the progress!

On another note, my camera is still broken. I am waiting on Best Buy to send me a PO so that I can send the camera back to the manufacturer. I was suppose to get this PO a couple of weeks ago. Well I call yesterday and asked them for another one. Maybe this time it will get here!!!

Nevertheless, here are some random picture I have taken over the past week with my camera phone!

A sleeping-almost-50lb-ankle-bitter!

Carrie Beth and Lee's new puppy, TANK!! He is a toy poodle with A LOT of energy!

I finally found some time to layout! It had been a long 13 weeks without layout or going to the tanning bed! I got pretty red but within a day or two I was nice and golden! I am not very good at layout by myself because I get really bored! So this is a picture of my feet blocking the sun! (Told you i get bored!)