I'm all jacked up on Mountain Dew!!!

Yesterday Kade cut a hole in the nice drywalled and painted closet ceiling. No, he wasn't all jacked up on Mountain Dew!! It wasn't a mistake-he was cutting the closet access to the "attic" area. This past weekend, after GMan and Kade drywalled the back bedroom, we worked on our random to-do list. You know, those not too exciting, but very important tasks that need to be tackled. Projects like more drywall in the master bath, cement board around the tub, a coat of mud and tape, spending a couple of hours in Home Depot, getting blown-in insulation in the attic, returning a few things to Home Depot, and cutting insulation for under the house. You know, we just might need to be jacked up on Mountain Dew for us to finish all of this so we can finally start on the kitchen. Cause you know, "If you ain't first, you're last."

Angles

A look at our freshly painted dining room in a color named, "Cultured Pearl." From some angles it looks more like a cream color, from other areas it looks more yellow. It's a tricky color-so put your glasses on! The finished hallway floor complements this wall color nicely and it looks so nice! I bravely put aside my fear of blades and let Kade show me how to use the saw yesterday. So I helped him make the straight cuts for the hallway floor--don't mind if I do. Now the angle cuts, ummm yeah, Kade still cut those.

Wall color with chandelier

Wall color in the sunlight

Looks like two different colors here, but we promise it's just one!

The wall color at night

Gorgeous Japanese Maple out front in its fall color

Lies the size of Texas

My flight to San Antonio left Charlotte on Halloween at 6 p.m. Earlier that afternoon, I said bye to Kade and Galloway at Home Depot eating KFC and playing a bunch of carnival games (literally) with the staff as part of Home Depot's "contractor appreciation day." Kade told me before I left that he might buy some paint for the dining room and the master bedroom and that he'd just be piddling around the house while I was gone. I talked to Kade throughout the weekend in between baby showers and football games, the Riverwalk and the Alamo, shopping and eating chips and salsa, and his response to my question of "what's up" received the response, "oh, you know, just fiddle farting around." Which made me happy-I was hoping he'd take the weekend to relax. But when I got home late last night, I realized that the stories he'd told me over the weekend were lies the size of Texas. Or, the size of Bee's orange hat!!

While Bee and I posed in Texas, Kade was at home finishing the master bedroom, which I knew nothing about.

Kade painted the entire master bedroom in a soothing green shade and finished laying all of the wood floors (with Galloway's help) and it looks GORGEOUS!! I was soooo surprised!! He says he didn't, but from the looks of things, he worked very hard over the weekend. I think he deserves a big Texas, "yee-haw!!" What a sweetie!