It’s been a quiet few months here  … haha yea right!  It’s been quiet on the house progress front only.  We’ve had 2 birthdays (one party) for Alex and Evie.  We bought a new piece of property (32 acres!)  a short drive away  and Ryan got a sawmill.  The sawmill is related to the property 🙂  Ryan’s new hobby is everything wood.  The property has some hard wood trees on it he hopes to saw down.  He wants to build a barn to dry wood as well as store some of our larger tools and trailers over there.

Later on he hopes to build a woodshop into the new garage we will build so he can build furniture.  He’s just planning for his early retirement at this point 🙂

In April we took a vacation week off an made some house progress.  Ryan built the shelves for my built-ins and then he built the storage part of my new sewing table (happy birthday to me!)

Shelves – there are 14 total

The playroom was mostly done, I believe just the crown molding had to be finished up trim wise so he also finished that!

And I designed my new craft table for maximum storage and the proper height for cutting fabric (for me).

Sewing table base!

During this april break I got the trim in the playroom all sanded and primed.

Then Ryan got his new saw mill (new to him) and he’s gotten to play around with it a bit…

It’s over at Dad’s barn right now and I don’t think he minds at all

Another project was Ryan’s dad’s spring project – getting the back yard (lake side) all cleaned up, leveled out and seed planted.  The grass came in wonderfully!

now it’s just a battle to keep the geese off of it!

And that catches us up to this past weekend.  We had a very busy weekend – Ryan got the playroom floor all sanded down (it’s our last unfinished floor that’s been waiting for us to get to it).  He got sanded and sanded and sanded while I sanded the shelves for the built-ins and got those primed.

14 shelves – all sanded, primed, sanded again

I used the sprayer on the shelves and they’ve been sanded after the priming but rain kept us from getting the first coat of paint on.  Hopefully this week I’ll have some time to continue that project.

Finally Saturday night I got the first coat of poly on the playroom floor!  Sunday I sanded it and got the second coat on – 1 more coat to go!

This is after the first coat

Final coat of poly will go on tonight – then next weekend (and any nights we can) we plan to get the painting finished in the playroom and have that room finished up for the next birthday party.  Getting closer!

That’s our update – i’m sure it will be a month before I have another one (at least) 🙂