Court and Joe: Still alive

We are still alive! Hasn't been too much excitement here lately. We have both been keeping busy with work. Work is going great... I love being home in the evenings with Joe- even though it has meant me trying to figure out something for dinner before he gets home (which also has included learning to cook! :) - and being able to watch some shows in the evening (The Bachelor, Big Loser, and Ameircan Idol :)

This was a little bit of a tough week. Wednesday was the three year anniversary of my mom's death. I thought it'd be a day like any other, but it definitely brings back all the memories and emotions of that time three years ago. We miss her so much.

It was also finalized that my little sis will be moving to Tampa!!! I am so happy for her and know this has been a dream of her's for so long, but I can't even imagine how much I'm going to miss her. Life will be very different without either of my sisters close by.

We of course started another project- re-tiling the bathroom shower- so we try to work on that when we are both free for a large chunk of time. We decided to tear down the existing tile and shower, re-tile, and make the shower just a tad bit larger by removing the separating wall. Of course it's become a bigger and longer project than we hoped! :) But things are moving along and hopefully we'll be finished soon! I'm looking forward to having our bathroom back and not having to shower upstairs every day! We've learned so much so far and hopefull this won't be our last tiling job!

Here are a couple pics from right before we bought the house.

Once we started removing tiles we discovered they had tiled right to the drywall and it was impossible to remove them without damaging the wall. So we had to remove them by cutting them out and replacing the wall with some backerboard.

Here you can see, other than me displaying my beautiful tile work, that we made the dividing wall smaller- we will tile it and include it in the shower.