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Just when you thought that absolutely nothing was going on in our lives, here is a post to prove otherwise!

I took the crazies out to Cali to visit the fam and for Annelise to meet the infamous Uncle Chris and Aunt Rubie...they are SO famous they are INfamous. Probably more on that later, but for now I wanted to let you know what my crazy man was up to while we were gone. Here are some pictures followed by a list.

This picture is of our living room before and then after.

Yes! There is a new door! There are a couple odd things about our house, which is the house of unfinished projects. The previous owners turned the garage into a 4th bedroom and 4th bathroom, and then added a new garage onto the front of the old garage. There are a couple of quirky things about this addition. The first is that they never added vents, so there is no ac or heat to this room. The second is that to get from the house to the garage you walk from the dining room, into a hall, into the 4th bedroom, into a storage room, into the garage. That is a LOT of doors to have to pass through. We decided a new door was necessary, so Dave cut out this door int he living room. Now to get to the garage you can walk from the living room into the storage room, into the garage. YEA! Dave even moved and rewired the electric so that when you walk into the living room from the garage you can turn on a light. YEA! Oh, did I mention that he also had to be extra careful about lead paint. Welcome to all houses built before 1978! He wore his little special mask and plastic covering...yea!

The picture above is where Dave widened the door of our 4th bathroom. He opened it up about 6 inches, which also required moving the electric. He did a fabulous job and now we are one step closer to having a handicapped accessible bathroom.

After Dave did these two projects he was in a dilemma...should he mud and completely finish the project...OR...tackle those last pesky boxes that if left on my own I would never get to. YEA! He tackled the boxes and now my bedroom is beautiful and box free. He hung the beautiful curtains he made for me on our first Christmas, bought this fun little shelving thing for me to use as a make-shift dresser, organized my closet...amazing! He also organized the man-room getting things out of boxes and cleared off the desk that has papers that will not end. He hung the last roman shade in HC's room and the curtains in the living room...all around a great job.

He also managed to fish and golf and get lots of sleep. More on the fun with the girls in CA later. For now we are glad to be home and working on getting on the correct time zone.