It's been awhile

So sorry to all of you who have been checking my blog only to find it not updated.  We have been making a little progress but it seems to be moving very slowly and not all of it is visible.

I just re-read my last entry to catch up on what was happening when I last wrote.  It was almost 2 months ago.  Emily came home from Nazareth College, our progressive dinner was a great success, the High Tower buyers bailed on the sale after the inspection, we enjoyed a wonderful holiday season with friends and family and we even did a little work on the house.

After we declared success on the 2013 siding adventure, we moved inside and started tackling little things that would help us seal up the house and make it warmer.  First on our list was installing foam insulation on the cinder block wall in the basement.  Not only did it make it look nicer (really cleaner) it was a great feeling to be putting something into the house instead of taking it out.

The pile of foam insulation had been sitting on the floor for months.

It was super easy to put up for the most part.  We cut it to size and glued it up.  The hard part was getting the wall clean from the older insulation that we removed.  But once that was done, up went the new stuff and here's what it looked like:

Family Room Wall newly insulated

We did the bathroom wall as well:

This space will eventually be a bathroom in the lower level

All the while watching Sunday afternoon football:

Note the one of a kind TV Stand!

Since Emily was home we decided to paint her bedroom.  No such luck for Matt since the picture above is actually his bedroom - beyond the pink bucket on the left.  We have a bit of work to do before his room will be ready for paint..... like build the walls!

I will write about Emily's room in my next post.