Karen & Brad's New Baby!

I was able to go visit the cute little guy on Monday! Talk about lots of long dark hair. He's beautiful!
They named him, Taylor Edward Dane Jaeger. After the grandpa's and Brad.

Installing Hardwood is such a BIG Job!!!

Today they really got it going! Very Beautiful! They figure by midnight they should have the kitchen and family room completed!
Only took them a few hours to get to this point last night, until the nail gun broke.

Dad and Sam have teamed up for the passed day and a half to install the hardwood. It's looking so nice. They're still hard at it. No Pun intended!

Carpets Installed and Hardwood arrives!

Dad drove it all the way from Seattle!
Hardwood Arrives! Yah!!!!!

Sarah's room!
Kat's room! The boy's got the same carpet upstairs. Guess I haven't taken a pic of that yet.

Paint, Paint, and more Paint!

Afraid of heights?
Sarah's room all ready for carpet
No more green in Kat's room
Say goodbye to the Red Wall!
Dad painted this section. He now has one arm longer than the other. Our ceilings are so high!!!

Washer, Dryer & Toilets!!!! YAH!!!!!!!

Master Bath Floor
These babies have been running all day long!
Girls bathroom floor turned out very pretty

Sam & JC

Three New Floors!

New Marble in the Master Bath
Beautiful Marble in the Laundry Room
Girls Bath gets Marble too
Thank goodness for great Neighbors!!!!! They're behind us all the way!
John had a productive weekend. He was able to tear out the upper kitchen cabinets and back splash tile and put down three new marble floors. Quite Amazing!!!! I'm sure he's ready to go back to work so he can get some rest! I love him:-)

This is the tearing it down for today

Are we tearing it down or building it back?

Old Kitchen Back Splash, but notice the new drywall
New accent wall in the Living Room
Lighter accent wall in Living Room
Can't wait to get this laundry room finished!

Tear it up!

Tearing it down to build it back again!!!

Dehumidifiers along with fans made quite a wind storm
Still can't figure out why it broke?
Goodbye to the sheetrock
Say goodbye to John's beautiful Marble entry!
Cutting out the sheetrock

"Mom! The Tank Just EXPLODED!!!!

Taylor's phone call was the last we thought we'd ever hear. He was the only one home when the fish tank decided to give way, under the two tons of pressure it held ,with three hundred gallons of water. We were all in shock and so sad. We all rushed home as quickly as possible. John was an hour and a half out. (Longest drive of his life! This tank was his baby!) Taylor was frantically trying to find and save corals, after placing what we thought were dead fish into a bucket. He took the corals to Petco for Refuge. Sam and JC rounded up shop vacs and went to work sucking gallons of water. Sam became very strong with the adrenaline rush, he was picking up huge furniture items to save them from the water. The girls and I got home ASAP and joined in the efforts. We were all in shock and now I wish I had taken more pictures of the kids and their reactions. I was totally amazed at the way they worked and helped!!! I of course was crying over the dead fish, etc and Taylor with great sympathy rushed them to Petco. He learned that there is such a thing as Fish CPR. He managed to save seven of our fish. They along with our corals have been placed in local tanks. A few hours into the disaster, Kathryn found "Jailbait" our black and white striped fish under her bed:-( I called the Ins and NW Restoration, and within an hour or two they were at the house tearing things up!!! They worked into the night and returned for six days, each day tearing out and removing more walls, cabinets, floors, and sheetrock, etc. Now the reconstruction begins!!! Thank goodness for Insurance and for John and his great talents and abilities. We will have an almost brand new house when we're finished. I've never seen John quite so sad! His countenance changed as soon as he got a new tank set up in the garage keeping his rocks alive. Our big Hermi crab survived and even on anemone!! Quite amazing!!!