Wedding update

In June we had a Couples Shower for Steve & Crystal (Daughter #2, Wedding #2) in a park in Grapevine. Click the photo above to see more photos!

June 26 really GREAT friends got together and gave a TRIPLE SHOWER for all three girls here in Abilene. Yes, "One Summer, Three Sisters, Three Weddings One Shower" It was a beautiful shower and we are all blessed by our friends and family!

June 28, 2010

I’ve not updated wedding events for a month. I can’t even tell you most of what has gone on during that month. I’ll refer to my calendar.

I can tell you this:

If all three brides were in Abilene I would be in the hospital. There is no way a person can do 3 brides in one town. My only saving grace is that the weddings are in 3 different towns, and I am the MOB of one, I am stepMOB of two, so I am not total support for all. I’d truly be mad by now.

When I look at my June calendar it doesn’t appear that much went on. How can that be? Oh yes, remodel going on. Oh Oh and DD #3-wedding #1- got a full-time job after graduation...so she is working 8-5 for these weeks prior to her wedding.

There is a great deal of discussions about:

Spray Tans

Showers

Shoes

Manicures

Pedicures

Hair

GUEST LISTS - how complicated is that trying to figure out guest list for 3 different weddings, 3 different locations, 3 different families. . . (sort of) And then there are 6 different shower lists

DISCLAIMER: if you wanted an invitation to a Rogers event and did not get one, PLEASE EMAIL ME ASAP. But be assured, if you get on one list you could get on ALL. I have a friend that said “I can expect an invite from the Rogers’ family in my mailbox daily” and I have friends that should have had invites and got none. So we get a very low score on invitations.

We have over sent invites, we have under sent invites. We have over stamped, we have under stamped. We have ordered the “perfect” Save-the-dates that were TERRIBLE and spent hours with sisters reprinting and repairing. But that is what it is all about, working together as a family.

We’ve had more time together this year than any year before, because we are all having weddings, and for that I’ll always cherish this time.

It is now Week 12 .....

We have had a marathon of Wedding activities! So I'm obviously behind in my updates. Daughter #2 pointed out to me that it has been a month since I have posted.

I am going to start with the update on the kitchen and then I'll move on to wedding activities....

At the beginning Week 11, 99% of the work was complete. We are very happy with the results! Week 9 & 10 was mainly just details, cleanup and unpacking. Electricians had a very difficult time getting their work complete and I’m still not happy with some of their results. I requested that a big ugly wad of wires coming out of a wall be "cleaned up" - as a result the cable was cut to the TV in the den and the master bedroom. This happened a few hours before all brides were converging on my home for the weekend. Dear Hubby was NOT happy, but he did manage to get the TV in the Den working. Cable people will be here this morning (Monday) to repair the damage. Wires sticking out of the wall still look tacky. I'm not a fan of "tacky" in my new room!

Decorating details are not complete, I am having trouble deciding what to hang on the walls, and quiet frankly, I hate to put any nails in my beautiful newly textured and painted walls!!!!!

Let me remind you of the "before look"

Here are more views:

My "baking Center"

Now the Kitchen opens into the den, no longer a solid wall separating me from all the fun.....

TV has been mounted on the wall above the while cabinets....glass shelves will be added..

Stay tuned for a wedding update!

End of Week 8 Construction

It is Sunday and construction week 8 is has come to an end with a "bang"...Electricians left on Thursday giving me the impression they would not be back til Tuesday. Vent-a-hood installation was suppose to take place Thursday, never saw anyone. They left me with about half of the electricity working in the kitchen. So Thursday evening I got in and started cleaning.....

Friday morning around 8:30am people started walking in (I thought no one was coming by). First our contractor came looking things over, there was a ton of trash EVERYWHERE that Rich and I were going to try to clear out since we had special little ones coming to visit. Turns out the contractor had ordered a trash pick-up and all the trash was hauled to the carport and picked up later in the afternoon. Yippee...

Electricians showed up and started working, guy came to install vent-a-hood, got all the parts out and the MAIN part (the SHOW PIECE) WAS bent. Cant' get another one until next Friday.

Granite guys showed up to replace one more section of counter. Counter tops ARE DONE, inspected and APPROVED!!!

Electricians did more work and had quiet a bit of the plugs working for the weekend. One new oven is now operational, but the "speed-oven" needed 110 and got 220 or vice versa and will have to be rewired on Tuesday. Here are photos of remodel...

You can see the trash the electricians left....

the new faucet comes on when you touch it....

I'm moving in! This photo was on Friday evening, workers were gone and I was getting ready for my "future grandkids" to come for a visit, I was scrambling to get all the nails and mess up so we could enjoy!

New Ovens, not all is working yet......

cabinets for my pretty stuff....

Backsplash, no grout yet and it's a little more blue green than this photo

Week 100.......(OK really just week 8 but it feels like..)

Tile guys worked Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. At the End of Sunday they had all the floor tile down but were short a few tiles. Monday they got up the backsplash, but were short a few sheets of tile. They worked until around 9pm Monday night and got all the floor tile grouted. I do not know when they will grout the backsplash. They have "moved out" and the electricians have "moved in". Big decision to make on what color of grout for the backsplash:

before/after backsplash:

Electricians brought a crew in on Tuesday hoping to get all their work done - I got home from subbing (by the way, I subbed for Business COMPUTER Applications - so I was right in my element....) and it did not look like they had accomplished much after a full day. Always a catch somewhere. They are back on Wednesday, we will see how it progresses. Plumbers are to install Dishwasher today (Wednesday) and cooktop vent is to be installed on Thursday. So I'll just post some photos.......

This is pretty good shot of the different wall colors - most walls are the grey and the brown is the accent color used on one wall and closet area, and this shows the new tile....

The constant mess is wearing me out!

PRETTY THINGS:

TWO OF MY FAVORITE GUYS....wonder who is taller now?

Where are we now

Monday: No Tile Guys appeared (as expected) but the counter tops were mostly completed, just have one little spot to do that is an "addition" to the original plan.......

Tuesday: Tile Guys appear around 10 am, said they would have most of the tile down in the den before the day was done.....here is a photo of the end of the day.....

Wednesday: Tile Guys appear around 10 and leave PROMPTLY at 3. Here are the results:

Thursday: Tile Guys appear around 9:30 am, get busy. Our "consultant" comes by around 11 so I can pick out grout. We are in the den with Tile Guys having conversation. I was asking their timing, one said "we'd love to work over the weekend, if you don't have plans" My response, "you can work ANYTIME YOU WANT WHENEVER YOU WANT!!!" Apparently they've had several jobs they are juggling, so I take back my thoughts of my hard-working Tile Guys leaving my house at 3:00 pm and going for beers, and arriving at 10am because of too many beers. Not the case.....Very hard workers - juggling several jobs and are willing to spend their weekend completing this job so they can move on to another huge job. Here is today's results:

Weddings........I need to do guest list for special shower for all 3 girls, one shower, three weddings. My HAT IS OFF to very special friends who are putting this together. I'm sure people will get an invite and think "WHAT?????" but - it seemed the best way to go. And it will be so much fun.

Our other "wedding shower" navigation issue was finding a place in the DFW area for a shower for DD#2, a couples shower put on by family and friends.....We finally found a really fun park area that met almost all our needs so we will be gathering at:

http://dfwparks.blogspot.com/2009/09/parr-park.html

It will be a cookout with "Chef Todd" preparing the burgers (as he did at the Graduation Party), I'm sure I'll have plenty of photos of Richard in the Fire truck playground......we tried to get the park that was overlooking the lake (at the same price) but it was already booked :(

I must say, DD#2 - Wedding #2 - has the MOST IMPRESSIVE spreadsheet set up of guest lists. I am soooo impressed!

Week 6 ended with Shower and Week 7 Construction looks promising!

Construction Week 6 ended with Progress and a "Couples Shower BBQ" for Daughter #3 - Wedding #1 - in the FSIL #3's hometown. A FABULOUS party put on by FSIL #3's family and friends. great food and great gifts! It was great to meet more of his family!

AND AS FOR KITCHEN REMODEL 2010 PROGRESS......Painters spent the week prepping and painting. They will return when everyone else finishes to "touch up" .......Now for the week 7 the plan is . . .. drumroll..........

Tile people will arrive Monday Morning and PREP the floor for the tile work. Tuesday they will return to begin laying the tile. I will not have the use of my laundry room and washer/dryer (darn!!!) for the week. The tile should be done in a few days. Sometime this week the counter top people should return to replace one corner of granite and add the island granite and the bar granite. (In other words, complete the granite.....) That will leave 3 things.....electrician, plumber, and backsplash. With the exception of the back splash, we could be almost done at the end of next week...but I'm figuring end of week 8. Backsplash is a custom deal and being "hand cut" and won't arrive until first of june, but I can live in a kitchen without a backsplash!