Party People, Everywhere!!

It has been a while since my last blog and since then we have participated in three parties. It all started off with my birthday party on June 18, 2009. I was not aware I was having this party, but Josh surprised me with everyone gathering at my parents house. It was a sweet little party of family, my family, Josh's family and Damian. The next party on the agenda was the Wedding Shower for Beth and Elliott. This was quite the event. The Hinton's let us borrow their house to host this event at. Jenna pitched in a ton and aided with the decoration department and the shower was lovely. The fact it was a guy/girl shower added some interesting twists. Let's just say one of the games became an all out brawl between many of the guys!! However, the night ended with Elliott and Beth getting a lot of nice things and with Debra and Kevin Dowker winning the game prizes.. Then last but not least we close the parties out with Jonathan's 26th birthday celebration. We had dinner at O'Charley's, then closed the night out with Oreo Ice Cream Cake and Rob and Big and Jon's house. The summer is definitely flying by, but a lot of fun things have occurred thus far!!!

And the walls came tumbling down...

For anyone who has ever visited Burke Manor you know our reason for being so adamant for getting our bathroom renovated. You also know why we would be in such a hurry due to having to make due with the RV bathroom (the real reason why we purchased the house!!!) Thankfully we have Jonathan right around the corner and he is graciously offering his shower facilities to us. The first week has not been too bad, but I can definitely tell that the house being in shambles is going to get old quick. For the most part Josh and Mike (his older brother) have kept things pretty clean, but unfortunately you can only control dust so much. So there is dust on pretty much everything... Then of course my OCD mind gets going and knows that the dust is also now deep in the fibers of the sofa's, etc, etc... I keep telling myself it will so be worth it in the end. However, when will the end come, supposedly this weekend my bedroom wall is coming down as well. Something about the floor under it is rotten, I don't know!!! Oh well I am excited and looking so forward to the finished product. I will keep you posted.. Below are before and mid-way pictures!