What's happened since November

So I clearly have lost my "blogging" touch...that is if I ever had that.... We of course had the holidays and didn't accomplish a whole lot, or so I thought, but looking back on it we really have done quite a bit!

Upstairs shower

One of the biggest accomplishments was finishing the upstairs SHOWER!!! It is amazing!

Since it was so cold outside we set the tile saw up in the downstairs bathroom :) it worked out pretty well.

Banisters, trim and such

Probably the hardest part of this whole renovation has been all of the "finishing touches."  For some reason neither one of us care to do them... so it's really quite an accomplishment when we actually do :) We had some motivation to start working again at the end of January, when we found out we would be having a BABY join us this fall! The day we found out Todd went to the lumber store and picked up some banisters for our steep scary stairs! (I've only fallen down them once... but he wasn't about to risk it happening again and hurting our precious little baby).  He did a great job and I really like how they look, and of course there functionality :)  Todd also put up all of the old trim, we used that on the main level and have new trim upstairs (upstairs only has a few more pieces to go!!!)  but of course it all needs to be patched and painted... my job... :) one day it will be done!  I also refinished the old hutch (or whatever you would call it) that was built into the wall in the front room.  it looks pretty nice!

Sprinklers

One adventure we've had in the past few weeks (May 4 - May 20) is putting in a sprinkler system!  We had originally decided that we weren't going to install one... but then after hand watering for a couple weeks and our grass seed not really growing all that well... we decided to heck with it and started a sprinkler system.  Luckily my handy hubby knows what he's doing ..or at least he seems to :)  so he drew up a plan and then got started.  I realized after looking through pictures the real reason he wanted to install a sprinkler system was so he could rent some big boy toys ....

we started with a trencher...

and then a mini hoe...

And a lot of good old fashioned digging :)

and finally it was all done :) But I'm not sure how to take a picture of the sprinkler system so .. use your imaginations :)