Uff-Dah!

What a weekend!  My Mom and Dad came down (once again, poor parents) to help with the house.  Tom's Dad also made appearance on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.  There is absolutely no way that Tom and I would have been able to do the projects this weekend without them.  So, thank you, parents!  We both feel that after this weekend things might actually get completed on our house.  We have always had so many projects going on and none of them completed... until this weekend.  With 90% of the trim up, and all of the windows replaced and framed in, this place is really starting to come together.  What a relief it is to know that the end is in sight and that before we know it, the house problems will be someone else's! 

Enjoying Raclette after a hard days work

Why do I always walk into a room and find a HUGE hole in my house?!

Alison with powertools... scary isn't it?

So, Mr. Rooney literally climbed up this ladder with the huge window in his hands, held it up, and managed to secure it to the house without dropping it... twice.  

This window may not look that large in this picture... but trust me, if it was yours and it was being carried up a ladder, it would make you quite nervous!

So, now my rickety old house has new windows that actually work, including upstairs.  I am pretty excited to have the crank-out windows gone (including the used one that my Dad discovered) and put in a window fan on hot summer days.  It is the simple things that make me happy these days! 

We are all headed to Omaha this week to watch Emily officially become a Doctor.  I am so proud of her and all of her accomplishments!  I can only imagine what it must feel like for my parents, to watch their kid do such great things.  Congratulations, Emily!  Minnesota is getting a good one!