Lots of Labor this Weekend

We did SOOO much this weekend at the house.

Labor Day is a day set aside to acknowledge your labor and rest from it.

Well...we labored instead.

We had lots of help and got a lot done.

It was fun and fulfilling!

We...

painted the dining room...

Stripped and sanded all the paint off the front door...

...Got to check out the chimney job that was done last week...

We were not too thrilled, but what's done is done.

The chimney was torn down and "re-directed" to a different spot on the roof and replaced with a stack.

I have several complaints:

1. It rained while the chimney guys were working and there must have been a leak...

When we took off this light fixture from the dining room ceiling, it was filled with (brown) water!

I knew we didn't have an amber-tinted light fixture!!

2. They left us with a gross patch of green shingles where the chimney used to be. Can you find it?

3. The stack is crooked!!

Anyway...

We had lots of help.

My parents, siblings, and friends were there.

The living room got spackled and primed...

The living room and dining room ceilings got painted...

My dad installed our new washer and dryer...

And I decided to write our to-do list on the first door in our pile-of-doors that currently sits in the kitchen.

It was fun to check things off the list!

And last but CERTAINLY not least...

Marcus finished the porch floor! It is beautiful!! (compare it with the floor that is just inside the door, but remember, the porch floor was painted BLUE!)

Now we just have to add the molding to the bottom and it will be done.

Thanks for all your help, Mom, Dad, Britt, Dan, Brandon, Emily, Endrice, and of course, Marcus!!