Merry Christmas everyone! We celebrated Christmas with our families. Christmas Eve we drove up to Sacramento to Auntie Doris's house for dinner with Greg's extended family. It was good to see everyone and to meet Seth, Steph and Scott's baby boy. Santa took time out of his busy evening to stop by and hand out a few gifts. I (Cheryl) got to sit on Santa's lap as did Jeanette, Tina, Greg's mom, Auntie Bridget and the kids. I guess Greg and his brothers have already "paid their dues" with sitting on Santa's lap as they grew up.
After filling up on yummy food and homemade blueberry pie (yum!), we headed to Auntie Bridget's house to open gifts. We got lots of Home Depot gift cards, which will come in handy to buy paint for the house! We also got a new dog bed for Tachi, a blender, and a dutch oven. Tachi gave me a lovely fleece-lined, fisherman's knit beanie. Apparently he got a job, as a guard dog, to earn money to buy me the beanie. =) Speaking of Tachi, he got tons of new toys.
My family came over for dinner on Christmas Day. We had hot pot (aka shabu shabu), which is really pretty easy to pull together. Greg had picked up most of the stuff, but I wasn't sure we had enough food. So, I went out to pick up a couple extra packs of sliced meat, veggies, fish balls and tofu. It turns out we would've been fine with what Greg got. Guess we'll have to have hot pot again sometime soon. Anyone want to come over?
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Home Remodeling
Since we closed on the new house, we've been really busy. We had the house tented for termites last week. It looked like a giant fruit roll up ate our house.
The tent came off on Wed and on Friday, we started remodeling the place. Our plan is to remodel the kitchen and bathrooms, put in a new roof, add a skylight, put in new floors, remove wallpaper and paint the interior, add insulation to the attic, hang sheet rock and epoxy the garage.
There's a lot of stuff going on at the house. By Saturday, the old kitchen and bathrooms were completely demolished. On Sunday, we went to house to remove wallpaper, the 12x12 mirror tiles lining the wall in the entryway and remove old cabinets and drywall in the garage. Here's a couple of before and after pics.
Kitchen Before
Kitchen Now
The tent came off on Wed and on Friday, we started remodeling the place. Our plan is to remodel the kitchen and bathrooms, put in a new roof, add a skylight, put in new floors, remove wallpaper and paint the interior, add insulation to the attic, hang sheet rock and epoxy the garage.
There's a lot of stuff going on at the house. By Saturday, the old kitchen and bathrooms were completely demolished. On Sunday, we went to house to remove wallpaper, the 12x12 mirror tiles lining the wall in the entryway and remove old cabinets and drywall in the garage. Here's a couple of before and after pics.
Kitchen Before
Kitchen Now
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