Spring Cleaning

Rob had the weekend off! (His first in a long time!) So we decided to some spring cleaning! We started in the garage. He put plywood floors up in the attic of the garage so all my Christmas and storage stuff could go up and he would have more room in the garage. So the garage at this point is semi-clean. I say, semi-clean because we still have a lot more junk to get rid of and to pack away.

We moved our freezer into the garage and began to tear down our sun room. This is an after-picture. The deck may be salvagable. We have to have the building inspector out to look at it. Part of it is coming off for sure because the original owner actually built an addition to the original deck before he put on the sun room.



We are also going to fill in our pool ASAP. We've decided while we would love to have it. It would one cost a lot more money than we want to spend and two I would be a wreck always worrying about the kids.

So we didn't not do anything inside the house! We tore out Nadine's carpet. Shortly after we moved in we discovered that the 3 original bedrooms had hardwood underneatht the new carpet but decided that we would wait until the carpet was destroyed before we tore it out. Well, Nadine's room has had drinks poured on it and Mia for some reason likes to pee in her room. We thought maybe the previous owners had pets and that's why. We may be right there are stains on the wood. Anyways, I decided this week to look in the vents and see what was underneath the carpet and lo, and behold, oak hardwood!! YEAH!!! So we ripped it out! The downside is who ever re-did the house before didn't care about the floor and there is white paint all over it. I spent a couple of hours with murphy's oil soap and a scraper and have cleaned about half of the floor and it is all coming off. YEAH again!!!! But here's a picture of what we found under the carpet. I will post an after-cleaning picture when I am done cleaning it. But it is going to be beautiful!!!