Laurie's World

As part of our drywall repairs, we had to have the dormers in Rachael and Jackie’s room redone…which means they also had to be repainted.

So we got that done and then we finally got to decorate…so here is what they look like…

And Jackie’s room…

Jackie and Rachael were in the Seafair Kids Triathlon this weekend. It was a beautiful day…nice and warm…Rachael placed 8th in her age group with a time of 12:14 and 43rd out of 204 overall (male and female–all ages). Jackie’s time was 14:25 and she placed 23rd in her age group, 134th out of 204 overall. Such accomplished athletes!!

OK…so we did pretty good on this renovation thing we took on last summer…made decent choices as to what we did and who we chose to do it…BUT…in all honesty…those of you who followed our adventures closely might remember some of the drama we had with the drywall.

Well anyway…there were so many issues that needed to be fixed, and the battle with trying to get the original guys to send someone who knows what they are doing to come and fix it was getting VERY old…so we just broke down and hired our own drywall professional  to come and do it right. So here we are…This is where the big crack in the living room wall was getting fixed…

and the foyer issues…

The family room…

OK…the sunroom too…

Oh yeah…and the kitchen…

OK…so you get the picture…we had to redo pretty much the entire main floor…WHAT a mess!! BUT…I am nuttin’ if not cheeryabout these things…

SO…now as you can imagine…with pretty much all the joints being redone and most of the corners being ripped out and redone…the entire main floor had to be repainted…SIGH! I took this opportunity to extend the colour I had in the sunroom into the family room…

Rachael celebrated her 12th birthday…(that is me, not her, crying–she was happy to turn 12!) We had great weather for her pool party at the house…16 girls…swimming, balloon  toss, cake, presents…you get the idea!

And then Chad, Ang, Nick and Sammy came over to have some cake and fun a couple days later…

My little baby…not so little anymore! Well she is still a bit on the small side…just not so young any more!

Jackie had her 11th birthday party on June 24th…still fantastic weather…so she had a pool party, balloon toss, bubble gum blowing contest, general frivolity party

We had to go inside to do cake as there was a little breeze and it was causing problems with the candles

And here she is with her cousins having a family gathering a few days later…