Another Project...

starting to rip up the carpet

Trey is a nut!

this is what was under the carpet pad (a fine dust) can you say ALLERGENS! And i'm even an obsessive vacuumer! I would dare say this is why it has been advised to us by Avery's dermatologist and allergist to have the carpet taken out of her room!

i think if you asked Johnny he would say he has pulled a million staples with another million to go

Daddy and his boys that were very eager to help help their daddy

this picture didn't turn out great but you get the idea

We will be doing lot's of projects around the house this spring. Our goal is to have our house on the market sometime in June. We were feeling pressure and kind of a time crunch due to our mortgage arm coming up in Nov. and not wanting to refinance and pay closing cost right before we are hoping to move (we want that money in our next house!!) , but after calling the mortagage company the other day i discovered we DON"T have to refinance- it will just reset at the current interest rate which of course will make our payment go up a bit but that's ok we at least don't have to pay closing costs and the pressure is off as in time frame of selling/finding a new house!! So now we can just get our projects done and get it on the market and when it sells-it sells.

Last night i got two big area rugs for our room and for Avery's room. The carpet is 9 yrs old and 4 kids later has seen better days. It has bugged me to no end (stains) and i have spent too many hrs on my hands and knees scrubbing the entire rooms by hand!! We decided to change our furniture around with the new rug but after doing that and discovering more stains we wouldn't be able to cover, Johnny said "I'll rip the carpet out for you tonight" (we were thinking of doing this but not right now). I got a little nervous but he assured me their were beautiful oak hardwoods underneath. I knew there were but couldn't remember what they looked like seeing as it's been almost 10 years! Johnny stayed up till midnight pulling staples, i mopped and we got things put back together (our origianal set up mind you). Johnny still has a lot of staples to pull up around the edges and then we are going to sand the floor lightly (they have a slight pattern of the carpet pad) and put some new polish on. I love it, and think it will look awesome when completed! It also makes our room seem so much bigger. I told the kids "hey guys guess what, now you can have snacks in mommy's room without mommy flipping out!"