Our Busy Weekend

Saturday - Making a New Friend

My brother M, sister-in-law, Ang, their son and my sister's daughter all came down from Sacramento this weekend to meet a new friend. It's a little complicated, but A is the daughter of Ang's sister's friend. Got it? Anyway, A is new to the area (a first year teacher).

We BBQ'd at S and G's house. All the cousins played we visited and got to know our new friend (and her friend).  It was very nice. I look forward to seeing A again. I hope her and her friend had as as much fun meeting all of us.

CK and E taking the dog (Jessie) for a ride. I can't believe the dog puts up with all this:

Crazy cousins have a great time:

I couldn't leave out M:

Sunday - Getting Ready for Demolition

Tomorrow is the big day. Demolition starts! We're so excited.

Thank goodness M and Ang spent the night at our house! C has a bad back strain and can't move furniture. It's been a very long week. Everything happens at once.

As you may remember from my previous post, the entire living room and family room needs to be emptied. There is no way I could do that all on my own. Talk about stressed. M and Ang to the rescue! They ROCK! They are truly the BEST. I owe them BIG!

THANK YOU SO MUCH M AND ANG!

Without a second of hesitation they jumped right in this morning (after I made them a pancake breakfast) and got the job done. As I hoped Ang helped me find a place for everything; my plants in the kitchen and we still have the dinning room table for meals. By 1pm everything was cleared out and they were on their way home. Amazing! My brother even started vacuuming for me.

Here are some images after our day of moving two rooms into the garage. I'll post another update tomorrow, after demolition of the walls.

Living Room - with Genie checking it all out.

Dinning Room - We can still play the piano and eat, all at the same time.

Family Room:

Kitchen with plants under the window: