September 2nd through September 8th

September 2^nd through September 8^th:  Monday, Labor Day, John B. and I labored by cutting, sanding and installing the walnut butcher block counter tops in the TV/Front Room , Music/Craft Room, Dining Room, and on the kitchen island.  We also cut out the parts and started gluing up the mantel.  

Walnut countertop and walnut shelves.

Walnut countertops.

Music/craft room walnut top.

Adding for the bump out in the cabinets.

Walnut benches for the window seats.

The island walnut top.

Tuesday I finished  building and sanding the mantel.  I also got the marble in the laundry room and the corner cabinet repaired and installed and then the backsplash installed.  Mom went to work for her afternoon and evening shift.  

The walnut mantle glued up.

Mantle installed and I changed out the edging on the shelves to walnut.

The end of the mantle turned out kind of cool.

Wednesday we went to our morning temple shift.  It is a real joy for us to be able to take a break from the hustle and bustle of life and concentrate on such an important work.  In the afternoon, I worked on the punch list for the laundry and bath rooms.  I made two large pull out drawers in the cabinet in the laundry room that Jill is going to use for 4 laundry hampers.  

Marble top installed.

3 new oak end caps for the 3 exterior doors.

Thursday mom went to work and I spent the day hanging doors, installing drawers, and installing the knobs and handles in the music/craft room.  I also made an 82 item punch list for the rest of the rooms.  After mom got done at work, she went to James and Kirstin’s house to tend their kiddos for the night so that James and Kirstin could celebrate their anniversary.  

Walnut top and doors and drawers installed.  There will be glass doors on the upper cabinets with glass shelves and lights.

Doors and handles installed in the music/craft room.

Campbell drew a picture of himself.  He reminds us so much of his daddy, our baby bubba.

Friday I hung the doors and installed the drawers in the TV/front room.  In the evening, mom and I went to dinner with Alex and Charlotte’s family, along with Bill McBean, Alex’s father, to celebrate Miles’s 12^th birthday.  We enjoyed dinner at Rodizio Grill at Trolley Square in Salt Lake.   

Doors and drawers installed in TV/frontroom.  

Miles' birthday dinner at Rodizio Grill.

Saturday I cut down doors for the storage cabinets that I had altered to fit some spaces and cut other doors to make the drawer fronts for the drawers under the window seats.  I also cut out the panels for three doors that will end up as glass doors on the wall cabinets in the music room.  Mom went to 3 soccer games and saw 4 grandchildren play.  Luke and Jake played each other.  

The 3 glass doors waiting for the silicone to dry. 

Drawers under the benches built and installed and the drawer fronts cut down from doors.

Tilly's soccer game.

Luke and Jake after their game.

Miles and Charlotte after Miles' game.

Sunday we got up early and went for a walk up by the temple.  When we got home I started making Swedish pancakes for the grandkids and then I got a call from my niece, Erin Boyle, asking if John B. and I could come to the ER at Lakeview Hospital and give Alice, her mother and my sister, a blessing.  She woke up shaking from a pain in her back and could not get warm.  When we got there she was still shaking and in a lot of pain.  They gave her a morphine shot and in 15 minutes she stopped shaking and the nausea was better.  They determined she had a kidney infection.  She is at Erin’s home now and is resting.  I stayed at the hospital for a couple of hours and then Chris came and picked me up for the last hour of church.  In the afternoon, we had a birthday celebration for John B.  He turned 45 and shares a birthday with our grandson, Miles.  So after dinner, we went and had cake with Miles and his family. 

Sunday morning walk to the temple.

It started raining on us a bit.

Happy birthday John B.

Tilly drinking the last of the ice cream.

Happy Birthday Miles.  He turned 12.

It was a good week and I got a lot accomplished on the project upstairs.  We are on the last sprint to the finish line.