Our Garden

One of the dreams that we had when we bought our house was to be able to grow our own vegetables.Well we now have our very own garden. Hopefully we will have a fruitful harvest.
Both of our fathers have amazing green thumbs and we hope some of that greenniss was passed down to us!

Not too big and not too small

this was were we planted a watermelon and squash
some critter ate the whole plant leaving only an empty hole

The tomatoes are coming along pretty well

and the Romaine lettuce!!

of course GMAC wanted to help dig

CHRISTmas pictures

Merry CHRISTmas!! ..no we are not late with this. We are Catholic and to us CHRISTmas is a season not just one day.

Our Nativity

Kids after Mass

Rose and I made this, we used holly from our front yard!

Crucian Dad, placing the angel on top of the tree

We sang happy birthday to Jesus, a tradition we started when Inch was little.

Appum and Estew(south Indian dish) for brunch

Christmas Eve dinner

Rolls made by "U", riz djon-djon (rice and Hatian mushrooms),
Baked Chicken, Ham, Scalloped Potatoes made by Inch,
and brussel sprouts (we got the recipe from our good friend)

Pass the pigs

our very good friends came over for pizza and board games. We played Pictionary, Gestures and they introduced us to what is becoming one of our favorite games Pass the Pigs
The game is so simple yet so much fun, with the differences in our kids ages it is hard for us to find games that the whole family can enjoy.

The bathroom makover Pt II

Well It has taken a long time but the bathroom is almost done. With a little help from a friend who has much more home repair experience I was able to finish the floors, install the sink and most importantly..... install the new toilet. You would not believe how hard it is for 6 people to share ONE bathroom!!!

-- Crucian Dad

Well it's not 100% perfect but not to shabby for a first try!!

Now I have to still:
Install medicine cabinet
put up shower curtain and rod
put up the toilet paper holder and towel rack
caulk
put in the baseboards
change the light fixture
and paint

..........OK so maybe the term "almost done" is relative :-)

The Little Helper

Every time Dad is doing work around the house G-MAC feels the need to help him out. Well when he was tiling the bathroom it was no different.

Bathroom makover

We knew when we bought our house that we were going to need to redo the bathroom.
The first step was easy... DESTRUCTION gutting the bathroom and stripping the tiles to the bare floor

Here it is in its original "glory"

We all thought that the bit of original wallpaper behind the toilet was "interesting"

Our Back Yard in Fall

We are truly enjoying God's canvas, our view from the backyard.

An amazing find

Since we were able to get such a great interest rate of the house loan we were able to afford to get new kitchen cabinets installed.

In order to save a few hundred bucks we decided to take out the old cabinets our selves.

It's amazing what we found down there:

• old coupons from the 1980's


• a sealed letter with a 22 cent stamp (we think we might mail it)


• various pieces of papers and junk


• Halls cough drop wrappers


• mouse poison


• roach droppings

All of those were a little nothing special, the letter was cool but we never thought that we would see this.

Yes that is a bottle of "Aunt Jemima syrup" ---- and its not even empty!!!

Setting the record straight

Many of you might have read the post by Inch with his predictions about how we will "work together" on putting in laminate flooring into the house.

Well here is the real story about how it all went........ in a word GREAT

Other than a little difficulty around the fireplace the floors went in very easily.

I actually have no complaints about Inch; except for the fact that he was so quick on installing the floors that he made me look bad! So if you were looking for someone to install flooring in a house, Inch is for hire!

No dropped boxes and no real yelling. We did both hit our fingers with the hammer a few times though

As far as his other predictions about Aliens attacking and ninja moves.......... I can neither confirm nor deny the involvement of Aliens nor Ninjas in the course of our floor installation.

-- Crucian Dad

Predictions

I love this scheduled post thingamabob.
I am actually writing this on Sunday.

My guess is that as you are reading this me and my Dad are "trying" to work together.
To be honest this is how it is going:
I am carrying a box of flooring, I trip and drop them all.
Me and my dad have to pick up all the pieces.

Later on: We are putting in flooring.
In this sentience "we" means my Dad, and "Putting in" means Dad going gray and pulling his hair out.

Later on: We learn that Aliens are attacking America on a quest to steal all our flooring. They blow off our roof, leaving me to do ninja-like moves to save the world.

At least that is my guess...

--Inch

Flooring

We bought a house.

We don't like the carpets.

We got Laminate flooring...

56 boxes is a lot.

Our car was barely moving.

If you were a Lego then it would look like this.
(sorry my Lego man has bad eyesight, he needs glasses)

For the sake of your back... DEAL WITH CARPETS!!!

--Inch

We are now Homeowners...almost

Here I am again, Inch writing because my mom has "no" time.
Well after some haggling, we signed the contract for the house on ***** (no we will still not tell you where it is) Here is a picture of my parent signing.

I wonder why they do not sign the bottom... Is that just outdated? Anyhow we will probably be moving in after we close.
I AM SO EXCITED WE WILL FINALLY GET A TREE HOUSE
Thank you for the prayers! Keep praying! Hope closing goes smoothly!
-Inch

P.S. I think my mom does have time but she uses it up on unimportant things like feeding the family :).