So... it seems that I'm not a freguent blogger

I can't believe it's been 2 months since my last post.  Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years have all passed and January is almost gone too.  Things have been very hectic here.  Right after Thanksgiving James and I decided we had had enough of paying a fortune for heat in the winter (and we still weren't warm) and ordered a wood burning stove.  As you know when you decide to start remodeling it snowballs quickly.  So, a stove cannot be put on carpeting (which we hated right along with all the linoleum).... that's right all of a sudden the carpeting was ripped out of the living room with great rejoicing! 

Now this room only has one wall that furniture can be put against and of course that would be reserved for the idol (tv), this means that the couches and tables are in the middle of the room.  It has been our experience that these kind of rooms usually have floor boxes with electric outlets installed in the floor.  Not here.  So out comes the concrete saw to add them before we start laying the ceramic tile. 

The hole is cut, the pipe is laid, the wire is pulled and now the hole is once again filled with concrete.

  Yes, we were mixing concrete in the wheelbarrow at midnight (remember, I'm usually zonked on the couch by 7:30).  

Kayla can now add concrete finishing to her resume. 

Now the tile laying begins.  Kyra was the foreman on this job.  James always seems to have a four-legged supervisor to keep him in line.



After alot of hard work we are now enjoying our ceramic tiled living room and woodstove.

Kyra thinks it is all wonderful too.