If last week was nice progress on the house, this week is even better

We have been cranking out the work on the house. My dad and mom came up from Monday to Wednesday and helped out on the house. I took those 3 days off to help.

Saturday and Sunday my sister and brother-in-law came up and helped sheetrock and help with the sink (too heavy to do by myself).

Caulin and I finished up the kitchen cabinets on Saturday.

Deborah and Jim (in-laws) helped on Saturday with the taping and sanding of sheetrock. Jim put together a tool stand.

Here are some pictures:

Feb 14 - Feb 22

(I am tired of uploading pictures one at a time. From now on, everything will be in Picasa. Just click the image to go to a slideshow.)

I rear-ended someone today but our house is coming along great!

Well, I rear ended someone today. Was driving on the freeway going south on I-80, just about to my exit, and started sneezing (I picked up a cold the previous night). Earlier this morning, I sneezed about 50x in a row, for 3-4 minutes straight. My entire body ached. Well, wouldn't you know that I started sneezing again on the freeway. I just held the wheel straight and went at it. However the car in front of me about 10 sneezes in had stopped on the freeway and I smacked him. I was only going about 20 MPH so it wasn't that hard, but my car is in the shop. Everyone was okay - all is good.

We are making some real progress on the house. Last weekend we made real visual progress. I'll let the pictures do the talking.

I am working on the bathroom here, putting in a dividing wall between the shower/sink area and the john area.

Allison and I found this lamp at Home Depot on clearance. It was $90, but then discounted to $50, and when the guy brought it down from the ceiling, it was tagged for further discounts at $30. What a bargain. I have already wired it and it looks great!

I am putting up green board in the bathroom in preparation for the marble guy to install our shower.

Here is Pedro installing our cultured marble enclosure. It looks fantastic and he did a great job!

Everyone helps out. Here is Mom Ogden putting some mud on the screws and taping up the joints.

Dad Ogden putting in some sheetrock. Some of the wood is so hard that the final bit of the screws must be driven in with a regular screwgun not a drywall one.

My sister Jeanne & brother-in-law Chris working on more sheetrock. They are great at sheetrocking. Much better than me!

Here is Collin who is a cabinet maker working on the cabinets. I would like to say that I am helping, but really, I am just holding a few things for him and trying to stay out of his way.

Our living room is full of cabinets.

Yes, that is Allison kissing the cabinets. She thinks they are beautiful. I think she is beautiful. It all works.

Room before we started with the cabinets and painting.

We moved the door from one side of the kitchen down a bit (about 8 feet).

Here is the room now, mostly done. Few more cabinets to go.

More pictures to come soon!