Office and new bathroom

Well today I'm finally getting around to those new pictures I promised a few days ago. These are of the office and bathroom rough in. John has all the insulation up in the office and has the vent done in the bathroom. He even dry fit the shower! Plumbing is next and then the sheet rock, tile the bathroom and then the shower, toilet and vanity. We can see it all done in our minds but with John only working on it a couple days a week it seems to take forever and he feels he will never get it done.
Today we picked out the tile for the bathroom finally...it has been a hard decision and we've been dragging home samples for weeks now. Manager of Lowes checked us today as we purchased some of the tile and he said wow here's a chance to win $2500 if you fill out this survey on line...that's just a drop in the bucket for what you guys have spent in here though huh. That's an understatement! At least he some idea of the money we've spent in there!
I baked more cinnamon rolls for tomorrow morning and made 3 pies, pecan, pumpkin and pecan pie cheesecake(new recipe) and I have the potatoes peeled for lunch.
Everyone is bringing something so that helps! I got the tree up with Dee's help and the stairwell decorated and the Christmas village up on the mantle...I need to go back to work now so I can rest! These 4 days off have flown by but I've gotten alot done! I'll take pictures tomorrow to post in the next few days!

Cinnamon Rolls and Patriot Shield

This week has been busy so far. Saturday morning I had company and we made cinnamon rolls! Denise Hahn a friend from school is here in Kansas City going to culinary school and we decided to try out some new recipes. We made cinnamon rolls with three different fillings and three different Icings to decide which we liked best. I've posted a few pictures of the rolls they were sooooooo good! We handed them out to neighbors, friends and family. It was decided we could sell them for sure!

Joe and Dee made us very proud they took part in Operation Patriot Shield at CPL Jacob Carver's funeral! The crowd not only shielded the family from the Westboro Baptist Church protesters they were able to back them up and get them to leave before the service ever began early this morning. The family was spared the hate that this group spews.

On a final note we got word last night that we will get Aubrie for the day on Sunday as we have our Thanksgiving. We are very excited about this as we've not seen her since June. My dad had eye surgery today and I'm excited that all went well with that and he will be able to see clearly now. Hope you are all well.

The ceiling!

John and I saw a ceiling done this way in a restaurant and both said at the same time this would be perfect for the basement! I will all be painted one color and will be awesome!

Finally!!!

I've not posted for sometime as John didn't want pictures up because he wanted to surprise his parents when they came to visit. Then I was very busy with Project Linus event and as I rested up from that and got my house back in some kind of order, we found out my dad was sick. It as has been a long couple of months and it's not over yet but Dad as of today is feeling a little better so I decided to try to update this blog a little and put up some pictures!!!! These are pics of new french doors that will lead to the office and the bar area when John as putting in the plumbing!