Nature vs. Nurture???

Austin and I are trying our best to prove that nurture is stronger than nature. Take Theo for example; he obviously has been handed genetics by his parents that should make him completely unhandy, not able to hang a picture frame, let alone complex home repair tasks despite their biggest efforts. But, Austin and I are changing his future: "Theo can you hand me the hammer" and "now use the drill right in this spot" are common phrases we use when imparting him our home repair knowledge...and well...I think it just may be working...see for yourself:

Bathroom

We finally finsished our last major project, our 2nd bathroom on teh 2nd floor. We decided to tile the tub ourselves and I made a cool mosaic in the middle. The blumber was sure there was no way we could fit a full tub, sink, adn toilet in a 7ft by 5ft room but we did it and it looks great...so see for yourself...

Clean-up Weekend!

We had our first House Clean-Up weekend this weekend. Nathalie, Deb, and I spent all day Sat cleaning up our craft room and study and re-arranging so that we can soon fit Austin's piano. We also successfully created what is known as the "man-room". What we mean by that is an area in the basement where there's a couch and a TV and playstation. And, I finally took some pics and got them onto this computer, so here we go:

First, our newly arranged study and craft room:

And a BEFORE picture of the basement:and an AFTER picture of the man-room (in use with men and chips!):

Successful Freecycle

So,
I've been subscribing to freecycle for about 3 months but yet have to actually participate. But I had my first successful give away today :-). We have this box of random computer stuff as well as 4 computer "brains" (as my mom calls them, you know- desktop computers but without monitors). These have been sitting in our hallway and study for many many months while we tried to figure out what to do with them. We had the best of plans to take them to the recycle day at the next town over only to find that they just throw them away!!!! So I decided to post them on Freecycle (for those of you unaware of freecycle, check it out at www.freecycle.org - it is just an email list by town for people giving things away who don't want those items to go into landfills). I listed the box of random stuff and got 3 responders within 3 hrs!!! The asked the first one if they also wanted the computers and they said yes and came to get them this morning. Now I want to go looking for more stuff in my house to "freecycle" What a great way to get rid of stuff you don't want/need without throwing it away! People list the strangest things that may be of any use to anyone and people always want them.

So, I just had to share my excitement about this. I want to post about our new bathroom but I lost the cord for my camera so am tryin to figure out how to get those pictures onto my laptop so i can post them, cause what good is a post about a new bathroom without pics???