The Writing on the Walls

We've acquired quite a bit of trash through all of this demolition. I don't know if I'd be exaggerating if I said that we had about 50 or so contractor trash bags full of drywall and plaster, nails, dirt, and dust under our sunroom. Fifty might even be an understatement. My Uncle Bobby has been awesome enough to get rid of a ton of the trash for us, and so he was here for a few hours today helping out with that. While he was getting rid of the trash, I put my cousins to work. Tiana tested out our new lawnmower. She did a fantastic job on the front of the house, but I think it was a little more tiring than she expected. We'll get to the backyard later in the week. At least our neighbors won't think we're slobs!I decided to put my godson Cory to work as well. I brought him down in the basement to the half bath and let him go to town.

He did such a good job, we even let him write his name on the walls. This may be the only time it is okay, right, and appropriate to write on a bathroom's wall.

Tiana wanted to do a little as well.... get out some aggression, so we let her take a hammer to the wall a few times, too.

Besides Uncle Bobby, Tiana, and Cory, we also were lucky enough to have my mother here cleaning the entire basement out once again, Matt's parents and Uncle Mike working on the basement for a while, and my Uncle Paul and cousin Anthony doing the electrical in the basement. Once again, we've been so lucky and so blessed to be able to count on so many people. We even had our new neighbor, John, come by yesterday and offer us the use of his lawn mower until we bought we one. I told him we had bought one just a few hours previous, but if this was his way of telling us our grass needed mowing, we'd get right on it!

Little by Little

Little by little... we're getting there. Things have been crazy and the rain threw us off for a while, but it's starting to look like a house. I've been to Walmart at least four times, Home Depot a few more than that, and we've had pizza and subs for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but we're getting there. Today, we had quite a few little helpers. Dad got out early and was able to piece together the corner desk. I'll never understand how someone can just piece something together and make it look like something. Anyways, Laura helped Uncle Leo piece the desk together.
She worked her little butt off getting all of the screws in place...
... but she's never too busy to smile for the camera...
I can't complain; in the end, the desk was put together and Laura's pretty proud of it. In the meantime, Cassidy found that she loves our glass slider, completely enjoys picnics on the floor of our sunroom, and loves our microwave more than anything...Matt and I have been thorougly touched by the amount of hard work, time, and energy, our family and friends have put in. We don't know that we'll ever be able to repay the kindness of those that have been here so much the past few days, but we hope they realize how much we appreciate it. We can't wait to be in a real, liveable house, where we can invite people to come over and not have to picnic on the sunroom floor (unless of course they want to)! Thank you all!