Dust, Dust and More Dust

If you can't catch by the title, our house has been a little dusty of late. Starting the last week of September, Mark ripped out our kitchen cabinets and discovered that we had mold. It wasn't a big ordeal to get the mold out but it wasn't something that was planned in our kitchen remodeling. But Mark worked really hard and got the cabinets out and the moldy wall replaced all in a day.

However with no kitchen, we had a few days of eating dinner at Grandma and Papa Foote's house, cooking in the microwave or toaster-oven, and doing dishes in the bathroom sink.

(I really missed my kitchen sink!!!) Then on Thursday of the same week, cabinet installers came and installed our cabinets in one day. We loved that but not the dust that was leftover.

The installers were very careful and cleaned up well but there is no way to control dust as it filters in every direction. In the end after cleaning up dust, dust, and more dust, Mark put in a temporary sink and hooked back up the stove and dishwasher. Yeah! I have a sink again!

We lived with the temporary kitchen until the week of the 12th when the guys came to install the countertops. The countertops are gorgeous and the guys did an amazing job but yet again there is dust! However, this dust took two days to clean up and is still evident in places even though I have cleaned and cleaned that spot. The granite dust is just super fine and went everywhere!!

In the end the kitchen is done and looks beautiful!

Before!

After!

But now on to the back yard!..........

With winter coming, Mark is trying to get the backyard hole filled in so we can plant grass. He rented a tractor to scoop all the dirt that he dug out into a dump-trailer (that didn't dump once at the dump so him, his friend and my dad had to shovel it out by hand). NOT FUN! He also order good dirt to fill in the hole. This dirt removal and dirt filling-in took the whole day. Thank you Dad and Cody for helping!

Tessa is 15months now and talking a lot. I got to be home this week with her because of October break at school and I loved it.