Too Busy

Sorry I have been slacking in the blog world lately but I haven't been slacking in life!! Gabe had an MRI done and we were so thankful to get good results back! We are of course getting the kids ready to go back to school in a few weeks!! Crazy how summer break flew by! We have also had some house disaster projects going on!! When we bought our house over 4 years ago we knew it was going to need a new roof but we had to put it off for financial reasons. Gary was unemployed for a while so we are still trying to get back on our feet. Well we have had a good leak in the roof in our laundry room area for a while now. It has been a pain to deal with but since it wasn't in a major area in the house we have just dealt with it for a while. We had a major rain a couple weeks ago and we ended up with a huge mess! Now we have drywall and insulation all over our basement stairs and on some clean clothes!! Not cool! And if that wasn't enough we had discovered that the previous owners never secured the toilet to the floor! That sounds nice right? Well that means that lovely toilet water was trapped underneath the floor!! Awesome!! Well when we bought the house they had just redid the bathroom and it was with the ugliest blue ceramic tile ever. It went so well with the faux SOMETHING blue wall!! Well I painted the walls a pale gray but of course we still had the lovely blue tiles and now I wish I would have replaced them too so we could have discovered and fixed the problem before it got so bad. My first clue something wasn't right was the tile grout always looked wet, and they were starting to crack in a couple spots and of course the freely moving toilet. Well we knew ripping up ceramic tile was not going to be easy and we just don't have the money to put in the kind of flooring we want so we put if off for a little bit. We took a trip to Lowes last weekend and I found some flooring on clearance and couldn't believe it I could re do the floor in our bathroom for $14, yes you read that right, $14!! Now it is only temporary until we can afford to redo with what we want and put in a big jet tub for the hubby!! We still had to buy new sub floor and the primer for the floor but it was still an awesome deal! It was hard dirty work but it was worth it!! I still need to repaint because the floor is lower than it was before and it needs to be freshened up. I also talked my hubby into letting me paint the molding, trim, bathroom door and frame white!! Which believe me was a huge struggle!! He likes oak and I do NOT! The previous owners decided to NOT go with the rest of the house and put 2 oak stained wood doors, trim ,and molding up. The rest of the house is white and it has been driving me crazy for years!!So still some work to be done but here are the pics from that GROSS project! LOL!

The first pic is off the a piece of the ugly ceramic blue tile.  The second pic is what was under the tile and a layer of plywood! Layers of old tacky WET floor!! The third pic is how wet it was under the toilet!! Nice huh? The rest are the after floor, not bad for $14!!! The last is the ugly wood in the bathroom that I can't wait to paint!!!!!!! Well I hope that I don't take so long to post again!!