Out goes the carpet

We again invit some friends over, and they help us take out the carpet. We had to move the furniture all around, but its done and gone. Auntie Mandy also came by and helped.

Here Kenny is again helping. He helped roll up the carpet, and then helped drag the foam out to the trailer. The girls were in bed and needed to stay out of the rooms till we got all the tack strips up.

We decided to do some demolition in our house to make more space. Ken started by taking out all the live wiring. Including the 2nd light switch for the dining room, and the kitchen. He also removed an outlet, and phone jack.
Kenny helped Daddy remove one part of the wall that leads to the bathroom and bedrooms.
The Thomson Family came over to eat supper and help take this entire wall down. Brother Thomson helped with the removal of the cabinets, and then the kids took over with hammers to remove all the drywall. Then down came the studs.

This is now the view from our bedroom into the kitchen. The cabinets will all go back on the wall at the left side of this picture. It has opened an amazing amount of space and now we can all eat in the kitchen (including the new baby when it comes), and have enough room for company to eat with the family too!!

Stay tuned for more pictures as we progress.

Rearranging

I decided it was time to spring clean and re-arrange the office. Currently we have the computer desk, and filling cabinets in the living room, and the shelves with all our books in the dining room. I decided that the bookshelves need to be moved, if we are taking that wall out to the kitchen, so the only place left for them is the office.

Here is a picture of how the office looks after I moved it around. Where the pictures and lamp are, we will put the bookshelves, and move the pictures to the other wall. I like it this way so far, because I can work on the computer and look into the living room, dining room , and even out the window to keep an eye on the kids.

What do you think??

Winter Wonderland

We are so excited, we might actually have a white Christmas!!! We have NEVER had a white Christmas here since we moved to Alberta. This is a picture of Early this month BEFORE a Chinook came in and melted most of it away. (A Chinook is a warm wind, that often melts all our snow away several times each winter.) It is a taken out our back door, across the deck looking at Ken's garage.

We are cleaning out the yard. And building gates to completely fence in the yard. Daddy is packing all the branches into the trailer to take to the dump. This is the fifth load today!