Granite

Yesterday at the lake the granite countertops were installed in the kitchen and the master bathroom. I don't think the two guys who came out to do the installation were expecting to have to carry each slab down our snowy hill, but since we don't park in our driveway we don't shovel it either after it snows. There was a path, but it looked tiring to carry those big pieces! It was fun to watch them work so quickly, install the sinks, and buff out any scratches that happened during delivery.

Dan and I spent the day cleaning up the basement and taking home the cardboard boxes from the siding. The guys that did the exterior took away ALL the scraps so we didn't have to deal with that, just the boxes. They finished up the front steps last week and the railing. We really like the outside.

Our builder had another week of personal issues, but did get everything sheetrocked except for the family room walls and the stairway. We were hoping to have painted this weekend, but since it wasn't done we couldn't - maybe next weekend? Since he hasn't started mudding and taping downstairs I don't think its likely, but we can always hope :)

He did hang three doors upstairs so I spent the day sanding them and getting them ready to finish. Our brushes were a little hard from last weekend - we must not have rinsed them well enough, so I did a top coat on one of the doors and it took forever so we decided to wait on the rest until next weekend. We thought about going out again today to do some more finishing work, but we like to bring a carfull of stuff to leave out there, and since the basement still has so much work to be done we thought bringing more things would just be in the way. Instead we'll go out again next weekend with a load and hopefully more will be done.

This is the last full week of class! We are practicing our presentation this week and proof-reading our paper. Next Sunday the 16th we do our presentation at 7 p.m. and then we are done! I'm so glad we had a good group to work with during this last class. It could have been a lot harder if we didn't have other students that wanted to do a good job.

We had a fun week of Christmas parties; for work, two associations I'm part of, our church Momentum party, and then a birthday party for our friend Jeremy last night. Lots of yummy food!!

Have a good week.