Day 3: That’s What Friends are For

So, I’ve been pretty remiss in keeping everyone up to date.  The truth is we were busy most of the weekend and didn’t have much time to work on the house.  We had to repaint the living room in our old rent house, and get it all ready to hand back to the landlord.  We also managed to squeeze in a trip to Conway to go to dinner and a movie with some friends, as well as a trip to Mountain Home for dinner and a movie with Andy’s parents, as well as a stop at Lowe’s and Home Depot.  More about that shopping trip later.

Monday we got back to work, but before we did our friends Joey and Syndal dropped by with a recliner to give us.  I think this will quickly become Andy’s “I’m exhausted from working on the house chair”.

After work Andy was planning to work on putting up sheet rock in the kitchen, but first he had to fix some seriously messed up wiring.  There were so many fire hazards it’s not even funny.  But now they’re fixed and ready to go.

Then Andy and I worked on cutting open the ceiling in the kitchen.  We are planning on having a raised ceiling in the middle to open up the room a little more.  We used a chalk line to mark our cuts.  I’ve never used one of these before, but they’re pretty cool.  All you do is hold the string on both ends of where the cuts will go, and then snap the string.  It leaves a perfectly straight line to cut on.

For future reference, be careful not to touch your face afterwards or you will end up looking like you have red whiskers.  Yes, I know now why my mom always told me to stop touching my face.  No, I didn’t take a picture of that.  Instead, you get a picture of the lovely lines we made.

Then Andy took this scary looking drywall saw and started cutting up the ceiling. 

Then he switched to the powered one, which does the job much quicker.

Next we took down the grimy ceiling fan before it came down with the ceiling. :)

Phew…a lot of work done already!  But then we were blessed by Joey and Syndal coming back over (with pizza!) to help us work on the house.  While Syndal and I watched the kids (and I got stung by a wasp :( ), Andy and Joey ripped out the flooring and ceiling, and got the sheet rock up. 

  

I’m so thankful for wonderful friends like Joey and Syndal, who give up their time to come help us work on our house.  And by others, like Jamie, Taylor, Justin, and my in-laws, who helped us move all of our stuff, even while someone’s wife was waiting for him at the creek with their little boys. :)  Yes, we have such amazing friends…and we are so blessed!