More of the same.

Last night Kyle got one more bucket of thin set worth of tile down.  The least dusty stretch of tile is the new stuff.  

We also sanded the railing, and he put another coat of paint on.

Kyle also found some scrap wood and put some trim around the bookcase where it goes against the wall.  Now he has to primer and paint it too (the bookcase still needs another coat of paint anyway).  He also needs to primer and paint a small stretch of handrail downstairs since it got missed the first time around.  We're getting close to being done with the handrail.

More paint and tile.

Last night I took all the kids to J and A's soccer games (it was freezing) while Kyle worked on the house and went to the youth activity at church.  Before his activity, he worked on painting the railing a bit.  He got home around 8 and did another section of tile.  You can kind of see the three different shades of dusty, the least dusty section that goes to the corner is what he did last night.

He also finished the first coat of paint on the railing.  It looks really good (which is a relief since the primer was not going on well).

CP's Room

CP "babysat" while E took a nap and I finished the last coat of gray and pulled the tape off.  Yea for the end of the wall painting...

Almost the last of the wall painting...

Kyle finished the second coat of green paint in the laundry room today, so the walls are done upstairs. Except for our bedroom, but I think we're going to wait until next year when maybe painting sounds like fun again.  White will do for awhile.

When I came in to help, he was just finishing that up so I got started downstairs with the gray in CP's room.  It wasn't intentional, but his room looks like a University of Utah themed room, it will look even more that way when we pull the tape off and there are white stripes on both sides of the red.  Hopefully he can covert- I think he might still be a BYU fan.

Then we headed to A's room to put the last coat on the black and yellow.  When we were done we pulled the tape off...  (These are Miami Heat colors)

Then we headed to J's room to finish the final coat of all three colors in his room.  Jazz themed.  I hope they appreciate how much work that was.  They turned out pretty cool though.

Now we *just* have to paint the ceiling in the laundry room, the second coat of gray in CP's room, all the trim, the doors, and touch up the ceiling in all the places where we oops-ed.  Then we'll be ready for carpet.  :)

I didn't get a picture, but yesterday the siding guys came back and installed the rain gutters.  It's chugging along.

Red Stripes in Boys' Rooms

I took E out with me this morning, he rode his plasma car and played on my phone while I got the first coat of red paint up for the stripes in CP's room and A's room.

A's room.  He wanted a "Miami Heat" room, so the stripes just above and below the red will be black, and the bottom will be yellow.

CP wanted a "blood red and black" room, so we compromised with a red stripe.  Above and below the stripe will be gray.

Things were really going pretty well with E staying out of the paint and not touching the walls, until I told him we were finished.  I went to get a bucket and he decided to paint a little more.  This is after I wiped as much paint off as I could.  Luckily these parts still have to be painted.

Paint and Electrical Progress

Half of the great room upstairs and E's room is "Napery".  We got the first coat on.  The second coat will hopefully go up on monday.

 I don't think Kyle was super excited about my idea to paint one wall up in the cooling chimney, but he went along with it.  He's a good sport (and a good climber).

We taped off the stripes in the boys' rooms downstairs. 

We put the second coat of gray on last night.  

 Kyle and I both did a little wiring.  This is one of the plugs I did. 

Kyle got some lights up in the storage room. It's amazing to have lights that turn on with a light switch. Now just picture this room full of food storage and a freezer.

The Last of the Siding

The siding is finished!  It's actually been done since Wednesday, I've just been slow about posting updates.  When the icicles melt they'll come back and put up the rain gutters.

Since the last update, Kyle has been working on getting the inside cleaned up and windows and other things masked off for painting.  He has the primer done in the bathrooms and the laundry room, and a couple of his brothers came today and they tiled the laundry room.  Tonight he's putting primer in as much of the rest of the house as he can get to before he gets too tired.  When our house is done, he's going to have to take some long naps in the sunshine coming in our south facing windows.  

More picture updates tomorrow hopefully.