The House Part 2

Ok more before, during, and after pictures of the house!

The kitchen: (my favorite part b/c this is where I am going to spend most of my time)
We refinished the existing cabinets that were already there b/c they were in ok condition. We sanded them down head to toe and Norris bought a paint sprayer and sprayed all the cabinets and door by himself. My mom and I did most all the sanding. That was a pain in the butt! Way too much work. We changed the lighting in the kitchen, did granite countertops, put in a new sink, new windows, and we got stainless steal appliances. Norris also did some electrical work and changed out the outlet switches. My mom (with the help of me) did the backsplash.

The closes before picture we have:(

During

More during 

After! 

                                                          Another angle of the kitchen before

During

After

Another angle

Mom and Duran helping out! 

Up next is the outside bathrooms but I do not have the before picture yet b/c they are on Norris phone! I will have to update the before pic later. So the work that went into the bathrooms was a lot. We pretty much ripped out everything in the bathrooms except for the showers. We had custom vanities put in, refinished the showers, got new light fixtures, new toilettes, mirrors, medicine cabinets,  did granite countertops, and travertine tile. 

The Hall Bathroom:

Before kinda! 

During (we ripped everything out)

After:) much better

The refinished tub/shower. 

Now for the Master Bathroom:

The before!

During

More during

Almost there!

Done. The after pic:)

Different angle

Shower! 

Next....the bedrooms. There are three additional bedrooms beside the master, which I have already showed u. Here are just some photos. Not a ton of work went into these rooms but just the basics like new carpet, closet organizers with mirrors, windows, and paint.




Some before shots.


 Some after shots

 One more.....look at what a little paint does to a room.

 
 


The Garage:
Ok I guess a lot of work went into the garage too. Lots of electrical work, some framing, some insulation, lots of drywall and mudding, along with white paint. This was Norris' workshop for four months:) It looks so nice cleaned up!

Yes the baby made it in the picture this time.

The after, nice and clean. The ground looks all funny b/c we watered it down. 

These are my favorite before and after pictures beside the kitchen. 

It just shows how much work Norris did really!

This is a picture taken from the garage. Norris took out the wall and fixed some stuff.

Here is the wall patched up.

And here is the wall a finished. 

This is a picture of the garage on demo day. Let just say this pile of stuff got three times this size. 

Maybe even four time bigger! Dead serious! Dumb fees stink:(

Here is Marshall and Norris cleaning out the garage. 

Here is a picture of where the water heat was and Norris redid that whole area. 

Here is it all done! 

Ok I think I am going to make one more addition blog post about the yard transformation. 

The House

The house is finally finish and the renters are moved in. Its crazy how much work we put into that place. Glad its over but sad we don't get to live in it. Here are some before, during, and after picture of the different rooms in the house.

We will start with the master bedroom:

This is the original picture of the master bedroom window. 

We decided to take out the window on the left of for more wall space and furnisher space. 

So here we put in new windows and covered up the other window.

Next the mud and texture guy came and covered the patch work up. 

Then came a little paint.

Finally the finish product of the wall with new carpet in the room. 

Next in the master we redid the closet space:

This is the master closet and access to the attic. 

Covering up the whole and putting the attic entrance in the hallway with a pull down latter. 

Old mirrors 

New mirrors

New closet organizers as well.

The hallway is next:

 The whole for the attic entrance.

                        All refinished

Another hallway with the old doors and the casing torn off                  All new doors, casing, fresh paint


NEXT the living room: this room is where most of the work happened!

The before picture of the living room. 

The during picture.....

The after picture of the living room.

Here are some more picture of the living room just different angles.

Ok I am breaking this blog post up into two different posts b/c its getting too long and too many pictures.

6 Months

Tate is 6 months now which is crazy. I still feel like I just had him not that long ago. Guess its time to get my but into shape and stop making excuses for myself, my baby is 6 months now! Tate is doing so much better in his carseat. Car ride and enjoyable again, yay! Tate went swimming for the first time a couple weekends ago and he just loved it. He just learned to splash in the bath tub a couple night Before that, so he was splashing up a storm in the hot tub. We took him in my parents big tub one time but this time he got to go swimming with a bunch of his cousins. We loved it and he didn't mind all the other kids splashing and making lots of noise. He actually loves the entertainment. He just started to roll over a couple days ago consistently. The other morning I got him out of his crib and he was on his tummy. I am glad he is rolling over I felt like it took a long time but k ow he is just all over the place. he loves to stand up and hold on to things. He also loves to walk around. I will hold his arms up and he will start walking around fhe room to a toy he want or something. when he is on his tummy he rotates around in a circle. He might be crawling soon or he could skip the crawling and just start walking, haha. He has started this new "hammer fight" thing as Norris calls it. He grabs both hands together and bring it to his mouth and back down. He will do it over and over again. It's pretty cute. He is sleeping in his crib for naps now and i am super excited about it. Some days he gots down easy and others he doesn't at all. It's a hit or miss. He also has learned how to shake things. He will grab a toy and throw his hand up in the air and back down again. He hits himself in the face all the time now. HE will do it with or without a toy. Especially when feeding he squirms and wiggle and throws his arms everywhere. He is a wild child. He need entertainment all the time and he is smart too. Still love outside and the water. Oh he love to watch the cars drive by. He could do it for hours. Tate still wakes up 2-3 time (sometimes more) to eat at night. Oh I can't wait for the day when he sleep all through the night. When Tate was 2 months old he slept through the night for a good month to a month and a half then teething kicked in by three months and no more sleeping through the night. He just wake up out of habit I think. I just feed him b/c it's fast, easy, and less crying. We all get more sleep if I just feed him. I seriously need to sleep train him though. We I get my husband back and the house is all done then I will. Tate went to the beach the other day and he is so funny. He wanted to sit on the sand so I let him and he starts to grab the sand and run it through his fingers for a while than he bends over and tries to eat it. I keep pulling him back so he doesn't eat it but he is so persistent that I just thought what the heck. Let him try it, he will realize its gross to eat. Haha not the case he didn't care at all. He loved it. He just played in the sand and tried to bite the it every once in a while. I took him down to the water and he was just stomping away in the wet sand. He is going to love the beach just like his parents. Tate just stared teething again. He get pretty fussy for a couple days striaght and has a hard time taking naps throughout the day. When he eats he swallows a ton of air b/c his mouth hurt and he can't suck very good or efficiently. He also get a pretty upset tummy a d just wants to be held by mom all day long. He spits up and has different poops. He had a hard time sleep at night as well and doesn't take his binki very well. He also get a stuff noise and talks a lot plus grunting a ton. Poor guy teething is hard for him. I try all types of things to help him like oils, teething tablets, wet rags, the nuby, chew toys, cuddling, and feeding more often. Things work better then other at different times. We just get through it the best we can. I wonder which teeth he his working on and will pop up next. Oh Tate got to hang out with his buddy Jaden Jensen the other day and it was fun. He also gets to me his 10 days apart buddy, Dax Lee, in a couple of days. Exciting! Tate started eating baby food. About a week ago I started feeding him brown rice cereal and he got the hang of it after 2 or 3 times. So last night I just gave him homemade carrot mush. Yummy! He seemed to do good with it. Next is sweet potatoes after a couple more nights of carrots.

House update: should be done by the beginning of May. It's been a long process and a ton of work but it will be worth it and its going to look amazing/ brand new.

6 Month Pictures

Sitting up

Holding himself up

Tate loves to stand and chew on things. 

The House!

Well some of you know and some of you dont know that we bought a house in Valencia and we are fixing it up to rent out for a little until we are ready to move into it. What a process. We thought alright we will get in there and do certain things on it to fix it up but as we all now fixer-uper's are always more work and money then thought. I am so thankful Norris does what he does b/c we would be up a creek. Norris goes to work all day and then normally goes straight over to the house and works on it till like 8pm and then comes home showers and goes to bed. We havent seen much of him lately but it will be all worth it. I am grateful he is such a hard working. He is doing so much of the work which helps with the cost. He has strips pretty much the hold house, replaces every door and window, done all the electrical, put new lights in every bedroom, hallway, and kitchen, strips the kitchen cabinet down and sanded. put in a new slider, re-doing the trim on the outside of the house. CRAZY I have been running around picking out carpet, paint, backsplash, granite, appliances, and sanding down the kitchen cabinets as well. I will be glad when its over and we have our life back and i have my husband back.

So glad my parents are here to help with Tate b/c i would go crazy. Well if you know of anyone that is looking to rent out a house starting in March for 2,300 a month. 1,400 sqft 4 bedroom 2 bath in Valencia off McBean let me know:) 

The front of the house getting a face lift.

New kitchen window and slider.

These pictures are from the first day of demo work!

Major work in the living room

Norris showing off the new lights and doors he put in. 

5 Months

So Tate is 5 months old now and he is a ball of fire. Every day he seems to get a little more active. He is learning to do more things every couple of days it seems. He is starting to jump out of my arms now. He leaps for things that I am holding now so I have to be careful when holding him with one arm now. He is starting to lean side to side when laying on the floor and looking for things or trying to grab a toy. No rolling over yet. He is slowly learning how to put his pacifier back in and then let go of it so he can suck on it. Before he would pull it out when he would fine it in his mouth. He has learned how to blow bubbles and he talks a ton.
 The other night I finally made him laugh out loud by doing something funny. I try all the time and he cracks a smile and giggles if he tickle him but I haven't done something that has made him bust up until the other night. Norris was holding him and I was leave the room for a sec and I turned around fast and through my hands on the bed and scared Tate. Then he started to laugh. I did it again and again and he just kept going. I was loving every minute of it.
He is getting better a naps. I try to put him down at 10am and 2pm and one more hour nap later in the day and bed time is around 8. The past couple of days he has been talking 2 hour naps which as been so so so nice. He has been happier and I have too. He has never has been a long napper, 30 minutes to 45 minutes is typical for him. I hope he continues this trend. He is napping in his swing with his stuffed elephant, swaddled, with the noise maker on loud,  his face covered, and him grunting. It's a process so hopefully we will get into the crib for naps but for now I am so happy he is taking longer naps. I have been trying to get him to fall asleep without his pacifier b/c when it falls out he wakes up looking for it and crying. It's going better then I though. He seems to be sleeping better. He still wakes up two times a night to feed. Hopefully soon. He teething seems to come and go, some days are worse than others. When his teeth hurt he is a pill and very needy for me. I feel bad for his month but I hope teething ends sooner then later.
He eats way better than he use to. He is faster and I don't have to stand or feed in the bathroom with the water running anymore. I can just sit in my rocking chair or out and about and feed for 5 minutes both side then burp him at the end and be done:) he also go every three hours now:) so nice.
Tate is a ball of fire like a said before. He is very unpredictable, for example I would leave him for 2 hours one day and he would be perfect and a couple days later same thing but he would be horrible. It's hard to leave him b/c I never know how it's going to go. Tate is not a self soother. We have tried to get him to learn how to sleep on his own and nope. We have tried lots of different stuff. He only wants me to put him to sleep and nurse right before hand with him be swaddled and music and a noise maker. So annoying. Haha we have tired the cry it out method and not for him either. He is one stubborn dude. He cried for two hours straight and didn't just cry himself to sleep. Hopefully he will learn soon. I would love to just put him in his crib and say goodnight. Tate loves to be held. I will try to put him down to go to the bathroom and he gets so mad. He has always wanted to be held even when he was just born, he is getting a little better where he entertains himself for a little at a times but he loves touch. If Tate doesn't like something he will let u know right away. He isn't patient a when he is hungry I am way better off feeding him right away. He is draining at times but he has plenty of great quality about him too. I just want to remember his personality and how hard he is at times. He loves to be outside and loves to cuddle with mommy. Tate is aleays making crazy faces and tries so hard to figure things put. i can tell he just wants to do what mom and dad are doing. He smiles lots and makes us laugh. He has a huge personality and he has taught me so much patience. I am so glad I am able to stay home with him and learn all his likes and dislikes so that we can best met his needs. I love watching him grow and figure new things out.
So Tate is just about 13 lbs now and had his first tooth start to break through the skin yesterday. I though he was sick with a cold b/c he wasn't sleeping well, was all congested, kept itching his noise, and coughing. Plus Norris and I caught a little something so i just natural though he had a little something like the rest of us. Then yesterday Norris came home for lunch and was playing with him which i was making lunch and he said hey look i see i tooth coming through. I said no way and sure enough there it was, his front bottom tooth. All i have to say is FINALLY. I seriously feel like he has been teething for two months already. I wouldn't be surprised if more popped up soon. Tate is starting to get to tall for his 3 month old pjs now. I have to get him into 6 month pjs now and i am thinking we might switch to size 2 diapers soon, we will see. My baby is growing and he cant wait till he can move around. I know he will be so much happier. He gets so frustrated when he cant get something he wants. Love my baby! Also ignore all spelling and grammar mistakes. I did not edit my blog, not enough time! He are some pictures!

Standing tall on his own with a little help from the rocking chair:)

Blowing bubbles

Likes tummy time a little more now

I just love that blank look on his face.

He is trying to move around! 

So upset b/c his mouth hurts:(