Our House

Where do I start? I feel like to bring this blog up to the present, I at least want to touch on a few main events from this past year. Late December 2004, Charles and I purchased and moved into our home in Marietta. It looked great from the outside, but inside there was a lot of work to be done. The people who lived here before us were smokers, and the ceilings and walls were tar-stained and smelly. The carpet upstairs was as old as the house (20 yrs) and also quite smelly.
I think on Charles' first trip to the house he pulled out all of the carpet. Fast forward 5 months: Until May we slept in our downstairs living room because we were scraping popcorn ceiling, painting and laying floor on our second floor. Do not be deceived by the pictures of just Charles in work- garb, I too layed floor, finished ceilings and painted. Apparently, in my work gear, I didn't inspire Charles to pick up the camera.
Now, a year later, we have finished laying the floor, but still need to lay the threshold pieces, caulk the moldings and repair the stairs, before heading downstairs to start the destruction/reconstruction process down there. At least in the downstairs, the floor is finished.

Here is our house at Christmas. My in-laws drove down and surprised me with this rug from my Dad because it didn't fit in his new house. (It was originally my Nana's sister's rug) And our Christmas tree, with Bear, my in-laws poodle, sitting obediently in front.