Pictures by Karen & Ed at Christmas

Karen and Ed were kind enough to come up and take pictures of our family. It was, and very well may be, the only time we are ever going to be all together at the same time. Thank you Karen and Ed.






Dee and Bobbie




Sunny, Dave, Teancum, Jonas, Ezekiel, London




Zach, Amy, Tyger, and Tatum




Tyler and Lissie

Grouting Update

You have to admit, Tyler did an amazing job of cutting tiles. Look at the great cutting job around the toilet and vent. Bobbie was so impressed that she wants to change his name to "Tiler"!!






















Bobbies new heater vent she picked out.


Zach asked me to send some pictures with the grout dry.

Having a "grout time".

Tyler and I got the tiles set on Saturday. When I got home from work today, Bobbie picked out the grout color and I spent the afternoon grouting and then cleaning tiles. It appears that everything went fairly smooth.

I now have to cure the grout for 3 days and then seal it. The grout should dry out to be about the same color as the tile.

In a couple of weeks Tyler and I are going to tackle the other bathroom.

Adventures in tiling

Well, Bobbie and I have been trying to get up the courage to update our house. We finally broke down and bought a tile saw and decided to try our remodeling skills on our bathroom.

Tyler came up and spent the day helping me. He did a great job cutting the granite tiles with the saw.

Bobbie bought new brushed nickel cabinet handles. She is going to refinish the cabinets and replace the old old antique bronze handles.

I wish I would have taken pictures of the old bathroom and Tyler and I laying tile as well as the new counter top and fixtures.

Next week we start on the bathroom floor.

Hawaii a couple of months late

Bobbie in front of the Dole Plantation. This is what her hair looks like normally if she doesn't curl it straight every day.

Dee and Bobbie on the beach.

Bobbie went surfing. she rode the board all the way into the beach.

Dave, Sunny, London, Tank, Zeke, and Jonas on the beach.