Bathroom Redo

I did forget to mention our new master bathroom remodel that Nate has been working on.  It's finally done (except for my last little bit of plastering, which, I'm not crazy about the results, but the thought of re-doing it is even more depressing).

For those of you lucky enough to never see our "before" - the vanity area was open to the bedroom (kind of like a hotel room). Not very sleeper friendly, when you have one person working days and the other nights.  We had some fabric that we had up as a wall of sorts, but certainly not ideal.  We only had one sink, and that counter - well - it was just always cluttered!!!

We (by "we", I mean Nate) built a wall and installed a pocket door,  "we" tiled the whole area, and installed a new toilet.  "We" put together a new vanity and also installed two new vessel sinks that we (and there, I do me we two) purchased at least two years age, in hopes that we would one day, we'd really get to the bathroom.

Before.....

.....After

(somewhat) Before (you can see the fabric "wall" that we were using)

After

This is shower/toilet before - we wanted to redo the entire shower, but we also wanted to keep the costs to a minimun.

Notice the beautiful wallpaper - yay, wallpaper!

Did I mention, that I despise removing wallpaper - this was the biggest PIA.

Now, here is my aforementioned plaster job (in process) that I am not thrilled with, and therefore, have not finished.  Which is beginning to irk Nate.

Tile work before....

And after.

So, since we decided that the shower redo at this time was just more than we wanted to spend at this time of year, we threw up a shower curtain, and found we actually weren't disappointed with the ourcome.

THIS is was the plaster was supposed to look like.  I finally figured out what I was doing wrong.

And this is what it's not supposed to look like.  My choices are, live with it for now, or repaint and replaster - I'm choosing the former, for now anyway.

Do I dare try again.....?

Ok - it's almost been almost TWO YEARS since we last posted anything....and I make no promises that there will be another posting before Christmas 2012!

I did update the blogs main picture.  If nothing else, you can all see our updated family picture.

Hannah started high school this fall, and other than her hatred of math, she appears to be liking it as much as any kid really like school.  The scariest thing going for me right now, that in just a few short months, she will be getting her learners permit!  YIKES!!  Any volunteers for teaching her?  (I say that this is the scariest thing right now, because she has no boyfriend!!)

 She's not taller than me yet! 

Abe started middle school this year.  He enjoys it for the most part, as well.  I think he now no longer lists recess as his favorite time of the day - now that it's "P.E." and you have to 'dress out'.  It makes it more like an actual class and not just free play!

 Oh, I look forward to the days when we get real smiles for pictures again.  Although, as they go, this one isn't too bad!!

Nate is still doing work as a sleep tech (and still hates working nights) and I have transitioned over into the respiratory side of the office (geesh, there isn't much I haven't done in the office now!!)  I currently do Pulmonary Function Tests and work with patients three mornings a week in our Pulmonary Rehab.  I mostly enjoy it (although, I do sometimes gag when big honkin' loogies are involved!!), and neither of us will be sad if (when??) we win the lottery!

Well, there you have it.  A catching up of sorts, however brief.

I do not promise to try harder to keep this updated.  But, maybe a once a month update?

Once a quarter?

Who am I kidding?

See you next Christmas!