Dumpster Day!

We finished taking down the sheetrock we could reach and worked on loading the dumpster.  Mhari and Lorna were back from girls camp so we had extra helping hands!  Everyone worked hard and we got it loaded up pretty quickly.  I will say, I sure love having a tractor to do the heavy lifting!  

Good-bye Alfred

The day after we got Alfred, we had to go to a funeral.  When Jeff started the car he could hear the cam phasers were bad.  This is something Jeff brought up to the dealer, but we never got to hear a cold start (the only way to hear them) so we didn't know they were bad.  The salesman definitely didn't answer us truthfully when Jeff had asked about them.  It was a bad deal when we realized what happened.  

Thankfully, Auto Nation has a 90 day warranty to repair anything on the vehicle.  If we drive too many miles it voids the warranty though.  Because of that, the dealer paid to come pick up Alfred to take him to get fixed.  While he was in the shop Jeff asked them to check the transmission since it had shifted kind of hard.  They ended up redoing the transmission too.  This means Alfred won't be ready for our trip to Utah for Talmage and Cami's wedding.  Hopefully we get him back in time to drive to Idaho!  While we are sad to see him go, we are so happy that he is under warranty and he will get the needed repairs!!  

 

Temple Trip

We did another youth baptism trip to the temple with friends.  We ended up picnicking on the grounds afterwards.  It was a beautiful day!  So grateful to get to enjoy these experiences with our kids!

 

Demo 3

Today we split into 2 groups.  Some working on the walls downstairs and some working upstairs in the living space.  The walls have paneling over sheetrock.  Let's just say we found a lot of mold. We can only reach the lower section for now.  We didn't get all the sheetrock, but did get most of the panels down! The insulation behind the walls were so gross.  It's been nice to get it cleaned up, even if sometimes it feels like we are just making a bigger mess of things ;).  

 

More Demo

Today we had to move our stuff back where the stage used to live so we could take down the white partition wall and then start working on the upstairs living space.  The boys made quick work of the wood partition ... but the demo project is still so big!

 

DeStaged

We decided it was time to clear out our large "barn" building.  It was originally the church camp's sanctuary building that also had their cafeteria and industrial kitchen.  This is a pretty big project so we hired some friends to help us.  Clark and his friends, Zane and Zander Cabrera (I helped too :)).  We opened up the main doors so that we could bring the tractor to help with the demo.  We focused on the stage today and got it basically done.  

The first thing we had to do was move all of our stuff off the stage.  We had used it as storage for our home/office stuff since moving to East Texas.  Now that we are moved in our storage isn't quite as much, but it is surprising how much we still have stored ;(.  

By the end, we ended up with quite a bit of good wood!