Change of plans

Yesterday at about 3:30 in the afternoon Kyle called and said he got 4 tickets to the Celtics game last night. A guy at work emailed the whole company and said that he had 4 tickets from a sub-contractor and his family couldn't go anymore. Kyle emailed right away and we changed our plans of coating the floors for a night of fun!! Josh and Rochelle joined us as well... it was really fun, I don't know if the game was better or the people watching... (some interesting characters out there.)

moving out.

Our house is empty and we will be saying goodbye to Spring St.....


just for a little while!!!! We are moving back to Theresa Circle (parents house) because we are refinishing the hardwood floors! Kyle convinced me that we should tackle this huge project this weekend, and I might say it was a perfect one to do it. While MI was enjoying another round of snow we were loving the 70 degree sunny days! (although... the snow is probably coming this way next!)
On Friday night we rented a floor sander from Home Depot and emptied the living room and dining room. I was very against the idea of doing the floors now... I didn't want to move out and have a super dusty house to come home to! Needless to say, now that we are this far I am very pleased with how the floors are looking.... definitely worth the 10 hours of sanding, 3 hours of cleaning, and 2 hours of preparing the stairs to get where we are; with the stain on and drying, just waiting for a couple coats of polyurethane!

before the floors were touched... you can see that last time they redid the floors (we thought like 50 yrs. ago) they didn't put polyurethane where their rug was!

after the sanding began! looking better already

the bare floors, came out really well.

just a sneak peak of the floors, saving the full picture till they are done!

a lot changes in a year

Last year at this time I was competing in my last diving meet ever. Nationals was in MN and is this year as well. I have two team mates from last year that made it this year and I wish them the best this weekend!! I would give anything to be there watching, but would even love more if I was still diving. I am missing it, but love the changes this year has brought.
Of course, we would never post without a change to the house! Here are our latest projects, we painted the stair risers and put up a chair rail in the dining room. The stairs and floors will really pop once we refinish them!


Kyle is of course stoked for the next little while seeing it is March madness. We have filled out our brackets and are ready to watch some (or a lot of) basketball! (Kyle and little more excited about this than I)

sprucing up the outdoors

We had a weekend of beautiful weather! It has been about 55 degrees and full sun all day. Today we began the transformation to the front of the house, we took all the screens down off the porch. It really opened up the front a lot, we can't wait to paint the house! Kyle started scraping one of the back windows and painting the trim around it.

The front porch looks better... but obviously the lawn needs a little work come spring/summer!