What's behind door #3???

There's not a lot to show you behind the doors, but boy do I love showing the doors themselves. A few words come to mind: Gorgeous. Beautiful. Amazing. Hubby says it's only because it finally makes it look like a real house. I say it's because they are truly gorgeous, beautiful, and amazing! I can only imagine what they will be like when they actually have trim around them. I can also imagine them throughout the old part of the house as well. SOMEDAY! Probably not in the budget this go around, but what a difference they do make. Here's a few of the various rooms:

Laundry Room with frosted glass:

Storage Room Closet:

Downstairs Bathroom:

Upstairs bathroom:

They also got the pebble tile flooring in the shower. Here it is before the grout stage. He is sealing it today and will probably grout Monday. Hopefully the grout doesn't change the look too much! It feels so smooth on your feet when you stand on it... like one of those stone massages almost!

Today I am thankful for:

1) The fact that we got an inch plus of rain last night instead of the 8+ inches of snow it would have been if it were colder!

2) A dinner date with the hubby while the kids went to a play with grandma and grandpa.

3) My brother's amazing basketball season and his talented coaching abilities! Goodluck in your post-season tournament!!!!

Here comes the school bus!!!

Guess what? We can actually watch for the school bus now without standing with our head pressed to glass and our neck crooked at an angle to see to the North from a rather high West facing window! Confused? Me too. What I really mean is that we now have a beautiful tall casement window facing to the north in the living room so we (even the kids) can see the bus coming down the road without being a contortionist! And better yet, we have a door on the front of the house that you can actually use! Yes... I realize there was a door there before, but this one actually opens. And you can go out it. And it even closes. Woohoo!!!!

Here is a shot of the northeast corner of the house before. The wood stove is gone and the new window sits just behind where the stove originally was.

And now here it is with the new window...

And here is a shot of the old door. See the pretty insulation we had stuffed in between the door and the outside storm door in an attempt to slow down the wind from coming in??

And here is the new one. Insert drum roll here.....

Okay... so that's not really our house but that really is our door. Except ours still looks like this (minus one sidelite)...

Now dad doesn't have to nap in the lazy boy in that cold, drafty corner of the house when they come visit :)

Things are changing by the day. Our favorite thing to do when we come home is to go around each night and try to figure out what they've done that day. It's like a scavenger hunt for the kids!!!!