Daily Archives: September 6, 2008

Max is Eight!

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Well, yes he was eight on August 12, and here I am making the blog entry within a month!  Yea for Toby.  🙂


Lucy, Max and friend Ben enjoying a super time at Chuck E Cheese.  We had won a $50 gift card at Matt’s company picnic – so this excursion was FREE!


Lucy getting a swing from Dad.


Auntie Kelly and Uncle Ray – and the fabulous book of gross things that Max loves.  Auntie Kelly got baptised at this beach, and we were so glad to be there with her.


Yummy S’mores for dessert (thanks to Gran’s smart present for his 7th birthday). 


He hasn’t seen the movie – but the Legos are all the rage.


Cousins Abby, Emily and Alex join Max and Lucy on his present treasure hunt.  He got 4 giant bags of Legos from us.  Giant thanks to our good friends the Andersons, for having their boys grow up and then bless us with their hand-me-downs!


Yaya and Poppa gave him a new bike – which he really loves.

Also, Max was blessed by Gran with an amazing new hand-made pirate bed comforter (pic to follow).  He loves it and is toasty warm at night.

We sure our grateful to God for our sweet, smart, extremely silly, artsy boy.  Who can believe eight years have gone by?

The floors have been started

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This past Saturday was a very productive day.  Kevin was here and lent his expertise the task of installing the floors.  He also trimmed down all our doors.  He brings 25+ (?) years of construction experience to our team.  I would have never thought that some of the interior doors needed to be cut a inch above the floor to allow the heated air to circulate!

The floor is manufactured by Ark Floors and Pop got a great deal on it.  It is hand scraped distressed oak.  The two ‘rooms’ that we did (dog house and guest bedroom) were done quickly and efficiently because we had the right tool!  The PowerNailer 445 is amazing.  You almost can’t make a mistake with this tool.  I say ‘almost’ because with my skillz I was able to make a couple of mistakes.  We have cork underlayment to deaden the sound of the floors.  Bonus : Cork is GREEN (http://www.corkfloor.com/benefits.html) I am helping to offset Al Gore’s carbon footprint. 

The guest bedroom.  Notice the hinges are empty?  Kevin’s working on the doors while I take pictures.

 

Who left the hammer on the floor?  We are piecing the closet together with any left overs.  There aren’t too many becuase we can use the short end of the finishing piece as the starting piece for the next row.

Inside the dog house closet.  You can see that the far wall has some black scuff marks from the rubber hammer.  The last row is a bit tight when putting it in.