Progress

Our family room project has been cruising right along and lots of work has been taking place. In my previous post, I had pictures of the spray foam insulation process and how it turned out. Once that was done, we were able to get the drywall (or drivewall as Rex calls it) hung.



Here's Rob working on it late last night to get ready for the guys to start the taping/mudding/finishing process today.



We had a crew of 4 guys over for a couple hours today doing some taping and mudding in the room. Rob tells me they'll be back tomorrow afternoon to sand and do some more mudding (floating? I'm not sure of all the drywall lingo) and then they'll be back one more time after that to spray the texture on the walls and ceiling. We are hopeful that we can get the painting done this weekend and have the room usable by the time my parents get here next Wednesday. There may still be some small things like trim work to do but that's no reason we can't get out there and start using our fabulous new family room, right?! I can't wait!

Speaking of visitors, Rob's parents were out for a few days recently to visit. We had so much fun, especially the boys and it would have been nice to see them for even longer. Rob and his dad were going to go to a sprint car race in Knoxville, IA but it was rained out. Booooo. Marge and I went out shopping one afternoon and that was really nice to have some girl time. Mostly though, we ate, hung out around the house and played with Rex and Wyatt.



Wyatt walks everywhere now- he is a walking machine. He was tottering around for a month or so and then finally one day, he was just all over it and totally stopped crawling. He loves to splash in the toilet (toilet latches installed- check), pull all my cookbooks off the shelves and throw his toys in our media console. He is learning some new words and knows now how to high five. And the chicks dig him.



Rex's latest thing is changing his clothes. Changing his clothes like 37 times a day like a junior high girl at summer camp. He just got a bunch of new clothes for winter (hello Labor Day sales!) and is busy wearing them ALL. He does pretty good though sometimes his pants are on backwards or he is wearing something that is way too hot for the current weather (note to Rex- although it is getting colder, your winter coat is not yet needed). This outfit today though cracked me up and I had to get a picture of it.



I can't decide if it is so wrong, or so wrong it actually works. But you can't go wrong with a straw fedora so he gets points for that and being bold enough to pull off the hat. I think he is going to be pretty into his clothes when he gets older which I think is just funny and I totally support it. It's always important to look your best. He already tells strangers in the grocery store about his shoes, shirt or something he is wearing. I've also already got him brainwashed that we don't ever go out of the house in our pajamas because it drives me crazy when people do that! It seems the apple hasn't fallen too far from the tree.

Well, I have to get up for bootcamp class in exactly 6 hours so that doesn't look too promising. Oops. It has been kind of a disappointment for me. In addition to not getting the results I was expecting, a lot of the people go to the same church and the class ends up having a very high school vibe to it. If you go to that particular church (which we tried and did not care for) then you are part of the cool kids and if not, then you just aren't cool like they are. I didn't mind so much at first but that aspect is starting to annoy me and really wear on me after 3 months. I think I'll start going to the gym again after this bootcamp session is over at the end of the month. It has been a good experience and I know I am a lot stronger than I probably have ever been so I wouldn't say it was a waste of time- but I wouldn't go back either. One more life lesson learned. I am not a bootcamper, at least not for 5 days a week anyhow!