Kitchen Floor- It's FINALLY Done!!!

I know you've all been holding your breath for the unveiling of our new tile floor, so here it is

Try to ignore that we don't have baseboards down yet!

TA-DAAAAH!

Wow! What a process that was! I definitely have a greater respect for people who do tile on a regular basis. It's so nice to have it done, and we're pretty happy with the way it turned out. Now we can move our appliances and table back in and finally have our kitchen back!

Kitchen Floor (Day...Oh Who's Counting?!)

It's finally feeling like we're making some progress on the Kitchen floor. We really thought we'd have the whole job done Memorial Weekend, but we vastly underestimated how much time it would take! Now that Bryan's vacation is over, we can only work on it a little bit at a time, whenever he is home.

We laid all the whole tiles a few days ago and rented a tile saw to cut the edges yesterday. Bryan worked at it almost all day (even though he was on-call at the hospital the previous night and got only 1 hour of sleep); I am always amazed at what a hard worker he is!

So now we just need to lay the cut tiles and then grout the whole thing. It's looking pretty good, I think. I can't wait for it to be done!

Kitchen Floor (Day Three)

More of the same. We're still laying the cement board. The only update is that we've broken 17 drill bits now. Somehow I thought we'd be grouting the tile by now. Boy, was I wrong!

Kitchen Floor (Day Two) - We Broke How Many Drill Bits?!

That cement board is tough stuff! We've already broken 8 or 9 drill bits, and we're not done yet!
Poor little Hannah caught a nasty cold and has been pretty miserable, so unfortunately, I wasn't much help today. (Yes, that IS what it looks like on my shoulder. She gets coughing so hard that she throws up.) Poor Hannah!So my studly husband has been working his tail off all alone most of the day. Lucky for him, he got a little "helper" later in the evening.
Logan kept walking around the kitchen with the tape measure, measuring random things. As he measured, he would say, "How much does this cost? (look at the tape measure) Too much money!"

Kitchen Floor (Day One) - Bye-Bye Ugly Linoleum!

Bryan somehow scored a five-day weekend, so we're putting it to good use by tiling the kitchen and bathroom floors! Today was day one - ripping up the old ugly linoleum. It was more of a job than I thought it would be. We also got a start on placing the cement board. We'll pick up with that again tomorrow. Luckily, the kids were really good and let us work. Even Hannah was a good sport, sitting in her highchair!

We now have two tables, a highchair, a stove/oven, and a fridge in our (carpeted) dining room! Nice, huh? I guess we'll be eating microwave meals or Little Caesars on the back porch for the next few days.
P.S. We did get to take a little break from our work to catch the American Idol finale. YEAH! WE LOVE DAVID COOK!!!