Bathroom: Before & After

The unveiling has arrived! Finally I can share the completed project with my fans ;)... no seriously though... this took longer than I anticipated... for a few reasons. 1. The countertop had to be ordered and took twice as long as predicted; 2. I decided to wait for Tim to be in town to help with the tiling since I was a tile virgin. Good call on my part... I learned so much watching him and helping where I could... those rooms are so small, it's almost a one man job... I'm pretty lucky to have a friend who is willing to come over and tile my bathroom and laundry in exchange for dinner. For those of you who are unfamiliar or unsure, the before is the red coca-cola theme and the after is the monochromatic tiled finish.

Anyway, it's done now and I can say VOILA! I did this, with a bit of help here and there, but I did this! The toughest part was that damned drain! Seriously with the plumbing... I think they purposefully make directions greek! All in all, what a great experience. It was not only satisfying to do it and do it without professional help, but really empowering to see what I'm capable if I put my mind to it... ... ... ... ... ... ... now on to the kitchen! Heh-heh!

Let me know watcha think!

AMBER

Back in July we had some pictures taken at the Water Resource Center here in Vancouver... I really love the setting of outdoors and woods. I think they turned out great. Cooper was so fussy and completely disinterested in getting his picture taken. We'll try again another dayI'm sure.

Just wanted to post some of the snaps we had taken to share them with everyone.

As an update on the fam... well Chase is walking around like a drunkard... he either holds his hands up by his shoulders or palms to his bellly, just so satisfied with himself that he is walking now... and man does he walk everywhere! Just yesterday I caught him with a small trail of TP on his ankle... only to discover he had unrolled the entire roll and stuffed it into the toilet and proceeded to flush... I suppose it could be worse, it could've been a dirty toilet right? SO luckily it was all clean TP and fresh water... but funny nonetheless to see him scamper around the house with the evidence attached to his leg ;)

Cooper is doing MUCH better at preschool. He does still have a small amount of ambivalence to get revved up to go, but once he's there, he really likes his teacher Mrs. Laura. She is so great and calm and just perfect for him. He's had the opportunity to meet new friends and try new craft projects out. I just know it is the perfect place for him and he's going to do splendidly. A perfect example was yesterdays experience of tears and whooping up the crying of how he can't go and he HAD to stay with Chase and Mommy. But then when I picked him up... he literally skipped to the car and blew kisses to Mrs. Laura, telling her he'd see her on Monday. What a drama queen!

Anyway, that's all for us these days, same stuff, different day. Hope this finds you doing well.

CHEERS-
AMBER