House Update

Bryce texturing the ceilng where the previous owners did a patch job! He did such a fabulous job! He had NEVER done it before and it looks FABULOUS!
Bryce's dad sprayed the entire house yesterday and all the doors. Bryce's mom and I rolled the primer onto my kitchen walls. Yes the primer is PINK and NO it's not staying that way. They'll be RED aka Hot Tamale! The rest of the house is malt with white ceilings, white baseboards, doors and railings. It looks pretty good. Well, my craftroom will be a light green (cat mint---interesting name for paint).

Tonight we're taking the night off and going to see Seinfield Live and then tomorrow we have to sand the new texture part of the ceiling, paint the kitchen, ALL the ceilings and baseboards and Bryce will be drywalling the ceiling in the basement. The I get the pleasure of packing. We have Sat-Wed to be out of the apartment because we head to VEGAS for the 4th of July with my family on the 3rd. We're pretty excited about that. The carpet however has been pushed back to the 12th so if we're not quite finished with the house we'll have another week when we get back from Boulder City, NV

Build A Bear

Putting the heart in the bear.
Kissing the heart!
Loving the bear!!
Joshy kissing the house...
Putting heart in elephant...
So excited to have a BIG elephant...
Josh loved "washing" our bear.

Dougie and Jazzy dressing her bear.
Jazzy's bear was named Jasmine Grace Broadbent after herself.
Joshy's elephant was named Joshua Akeem (THE DREAM as Dougie calls him) Broadbent
Josh of course had to get a basketball (see the elephant is in LAKERS clothes) GO LAKERS!!
Two points score! Can't wait for him to make us lots of money. LOL. He's a natural athlete.

IT"S OFFICIAL!! THE TWINS ARE BROADBENTS!!

After Adoption was final.
With Social Worker, Attorney & Adoption Worker
Parents being sworn in.
W/ Judge Hardcastle

AHHHHHHHH LOVE!
Jazz likes to make BUG eyes. She's so goofy!
Dougie's Tie
Tickle Tickle Joshy
Josh watching his favorite movie "Polar Express"......it has TRAINS in it

Update on the house!!

What happened to our bathroom????

Getting ready to throw the couch they left over the balcony in memory of Bryce's Grandma.

Couch on the ground!!

No more tree, no more stump but a beautiful planter and you can see our pretty garage door in this picture!!

Bryce tearing out the wood floors. What until you see our pretty laminate!!

SO SO exciting. We started the construction phase instead of the destruction.

Adoption

IT's almost final! Josh & Jazzy will be official Joshua Akem Broadbent & Jasmine Grace Broadbent on Thursday June 26th at 8:45 am. We're sooo sooo excited for it to be official. It's official on the 2 year anniversary of my parents getting them. Who would have thought!

Adoption

IT's almost final! Josh & Jazzy will be official Joshua Akem Broadbent & Jasmine Grace Broadbent on Thursday June 26th at 8:45 am. We're sooo sooo excited for it to be official. It's official on the 2 year anniversary of my parents getting them. Who would have thought!

Remodeling

Bryce taking down the tile....

Taking out his anger on the tile...LOL! He had fun...

View....

My roses are blooming!!

The view of the mountains from the front yard!!

TIMBER....

Before

Cut down...

Bryce & Russ with tree...

Bryce, Russ & George....

House without the tree!!! Yeah you can see the house!!!

Work in Progress

WOW! What a weekend! We were busy little bees. Friday night we stayed at the house past 12:00. I scrubbed walls with bleach, pulled up the rest of the carpet and helped Bryce with the paneling downstairs. Saturday we were up at 6:30 for trip to the dump. Then we did a few things around the house and then went and met Tyler at Standard Plumbing to get our toilet, kitchen faucet and shower stuff. We then went back and I scrubbed walls for a few hours while Bryce tore down the drop ceiling. At about noon, Russ & Megan and George & Dilynn came and the boys cut down the tree and hauled it to the dumb (over the course of about 6 hours) then the girls pulled staples from the padding out. (my fingers are DEAD). Bryce's dad and friend Tim and Bryce's mom came a little while later and we cleaned up the tree mess, I pulled more staples and we got the basement looking fabulous and ready for drywalling (just to make the floors messy again). It's coming together. I can't wait until we can move it. I have a few pictures I'll post in the next few days!

Neighbors

We also met our neighbors last night. To the right is a young couple. Not sure if they have kids but they have THREE dogs. The ones to the left are an older couple that have lived in their house for 22 years. Have a yorkie named Bubba. They said that we're the 5th owner since they lived there and they were really excited that we were doing stuff to the house because the last two owners had really let it go. It will be pretty!

More House Pictures

OK OK OK. The wait is OVER! Are you so excited? Keep an open mind. The house has actually even changed a lot since I took these pictures cuz I got most of the carpet up last night. Bryce's mom picked up the back yard and bryce did all the tac strip--what a pain that stuff is. I decided that this is a really good thing for me because I can already feel the burning in my ever weakening muscles so hopefully I can lose my extra 35 lbs in the process. Ok, at least 15 would be nice! I would even be ok with gaining some muscle. It really does seem like there will be progress! OH! There are these 3 random bushes/plants in my yard (all together in a random place) and guess what?? THEY'RE ROSE BUSHES!!!!

The mysterious shed-Bryce's shop-It has electrical so he can do shop stuff out there. LOL.
Family Room-AKA Bryce's office. Check out that wood burning stove. We're so excited about that. We've to drywall the ceiling (they had those tiles on the ceiling) but that's about it in here.
Craft room/3rd Bedroom-it's not a bedroom cuz it doesn't have a window. Maybe one day we can put on in. But for now it's my craft room. FUN HUH?
The 1/2 Bath & Laundry Room-Well all we're doing with this bath is a toilet for now. Not really a priority but it will hopefully someday get updated. The Washer and dryer go where I am standing.
Master Bedroom-The carpet has been taken out and I just need to make drapes and we're good to go!
Main Bath-We have to redo the shower knobs and head and in order to do that to code we're going to have to retile so thanks to uncle robin that's possible. We're also retiling the floor and getting a new toilet.

Stairs leading upstairs from the landing, the stairs going downstairs are pretty gross so I left that out. You'd thank me!
Living room view from the landing. We're going to wall mount our TV above the fireplace.
Kitchen View 1-We haven't decided on restaining the wood floors or putting new laminate wood floors in.....
Kitchen View 2
Kitchen View 3

MY NEW HOUSE!!!!

We started pulling the carpet last night. We also got new locks and a new garage door. I'll have more pictures in the last few days.