Turkey Day minus the turkey...

Ok, so I decided to have a couple of people over for Thanksgiving...but I don't like to cook turkey, so we had ham. The couple of people turned into three people. Very cool, because I like them all. Then, the day before Thanksgiving, the three turned into six. My parents came back into town JUST in time! So, with the 5 we already had, and we added 6 to it - we had quite the little gathering. Everything went as planned (very unusual in this house - well I guess I couldn't make the tollhouse cookies because we didn't have baking soda, but we had 3 other desserts, so it was no big deal). Taylor used his brand new cookbook to make fudge - it turned out GREAT! The twins didn't help cook, but they did spend time cleaning on Wednesday - good job too! It was bigger than we expected, but a lot more fun too!

Master Bathroom Phase 2

Ok, the basic changes to the bathroom in phase 2 was that we moved our stuff in, and got new tile put down... Can't see it here though...
Ok, I can see your head cocked to the side while you view this...Haven't learned how to tilt the pic yet. But see how clean the bottom of the tub is?
Yeah, not real exciting, but that's how it goes, as stuff gets better, it will look cooler...
Now you can see the new tile. It's 20x20 if I remember corectly, and was put in by a friend of ours who has his own construction business. He did all the bathrooms, the kitchen, and put some laminate floor in the entryway all the way up the formal living and dining room to the entrace of the kitchen. It's a strip about 5 1/2 feet wide and about 25 feet long. It looks great too, but we're here right now about the bathroom! So back to it. The next phase is paint, then more paint, and then cool (hopefully) decorations. We're going for a jungle/african type theme with a redneck twist. (The redneck twist means I can do anything I want and call it what I want if someone doesn't like it - I shoot them...)

Master Bathroom Phase 1

Ok, this pic is before the new tile, and begore the new paint. TRULY the very begining of the bathroom.
The plastic protection was still on the sinks at this time. That came off pretty quick, they had to put the faucets in after all!
No, my bathtub no longer looks like the jolly green giant took a bath and didn't rinse it out! (Remember, we hadn't even moved in yet when this was taken!

So here's how it looked before we even moved in.... I've decided to re-do the bathroom, and thought maybe I'd share the process.

The Begining

Lydia is the second one, and Melody is the fourth one here...
Once again, Lydia 2nd, and Melody 4th... See those smiles? They're embarrased mom has a camera!
Here you can see Lydia, but Melody is hiding behind her friend Gabby... this is the look of bordom.......

Ok, it's a little late, but I wanted to show the girls when they began learning their marches and whatnot for band. This August and into September they were very busy, and here are some pics of them at a "parent social" doing their marching thing! They tried to teach me to march, but they are better at taking instruction than giving it! :)