When it rains...

..it pours.   Last week was beautiful, Josh decided to clean the garage.  I was cleaning the house and taking the kids to see a play.  Just a normal weekend really.  Josh decided to tear the wall between the two garages, someone years earlier had built a 1/2 wall, not weight bearing or anything, so it should have been easy, right?? 

I got a call from josh to come home that he needed my help.  This is Josh...he never, ever asks for help.    So I rush home, pull into the garage and see from the front of my house...the back of my house... The back wall of the garage was gone!  Rotted apparently... Josh found the culprit to the rotting.  A gutter hadn't been hooked correctly and rain had drained down Cregans window and down the garage.  The wood and window had to be replaced, as well as siding and insulation...ugh... So like I said when it rains, it literally pours...in my house.

 

When Josh came home from training for a week and a 1/2 we decided to do not much as far as going on vacation, seeing as we had been vacation like 3 times.... So for the first couple of day, we just hung out together and then 4 days before leaving, he decided to paint the outside of the house. Of course, we fought about the colors because we fight about everything that goes into the house, see here to read more about that.

I thought the colors were too dark and that it wouldn't look right. I... was... wrong...

And although we rushed to get the front and the back and it rained for a few days oh and I stained the front porch during this time as well...! It was not as difficult, like I thought it would be. All in all it turned out nice, and tons better than the eye sore we had before

Josh came home last Tuesday and says "I think we should take this extra money we have a replace the kitchen cabinets" Of course there was screaming and yelling that we didn't have THAT much extra money and no we shouldn't replace the cabinets especially right now before he goes to Afganistan... He kept on and made tons of great point, like my father in law had most of the wood, that they could get it done before he left, that it was a good investment, ladadadadada, I relented (as I'm sure he knew I would), and as I was leaving he got a mallet out and moved thing around and was tearing out the walls!!!

What he did shocked and surprised me, he tour out the walls from the dining room to the kitchen and the living room to the kitchen. We have a typical 1970's house where every room is a room, no openness at all. Well NOT AN MORE!! It's open completely, just one big room. Now Josh has plans to build an island and replace the cabinets and countertops, I KNOW, KNOW, KNOW we are going over budget, but what do you do at this point....

Hears praying it's done before 2012! :)