What we've been up to while I've been on blogging vacation :)

We've been dog-sitting Emilee and Paul's dog - Dohini, while they went camping with Paul's family this weekend.
She's been LOVING having a big backyard to run around in. I always say "a tired dog is a good dog".

We've been loving our raspberries from the backyard! Our vegetable garden that we planted (after all danger of frost) rotted with all the RAIN we had so it's a good thing that SOMETHING grew.

We now officially have 2 baptized granddaughters - Gracie Lynne was baptized last weekend.

She played "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" on her violin, accompanied by her Mom on the piano - it was beautiful!!

Gracie and her Dad

The front of Gracie's program

I went to Sandblast in Duvall with Em, Paul and co. and watched a free play that Paul's Dad directed; "Romeo, You Idiot". It was a fun night.

Em and gals

Then we got some L O N G over due new carpet - here's the beginning of the replacement process

It was such a mess - we had furniture EVERYWHERE!! Believe me, Lee, Nellie and I got a serious workout with all the moving of furniture up and down the stairs this last week.

The playroom was full

The living and dining room were full, minus a trail so we could still get through

. . . in progress

We had the piano, china cabinet, PLUS all the "treasures" from the china cabinet in the kitchen - with a trail of course so we could still use our kitchen

Here's a view of the eating area of the kitchen

. . . mind you we had "stuff" in our garages too, in fact there still is stuff in the garages because I realized @ 3 hours after the carpet layers left that they forgot to do the closet (of no return) under the stairs!!

Lee ended up tearing out the carpet himself (downstairs) so he could fix the "creaks" in the floor, because we learned the first day, when the carpet guys get here - they flat MOVE and there's no time for fixing then, as we had been lead to believe!!

Here's the living room all put back together with the fresh new carpet.

We decided to move Miss Nellie into a smaller bedroom, so here's her new pad - minus the fresh paint job - which we'll do ASAP. She's excited to get to help paint this time - too bad we didn't think about this before so we wouldn't have needed to worry about protecting our new carpeting - oh well!

A good close up of the new carpet :)
(Nellie's prayer rock)

Our room looked like a mess today because Nellie wasn't feeling well so she was DYING in there, trying to feel better - and I'm sorry, but my bed is THE most comfortable in the world . . . or at least in the house :)

I AM my Mother's daughter - I took this opportunity to dust EVERYTHING, wash all the baseboards/woodwork before moving back in to my house, as well as the windows (in and out), casings, most of the curtains and etc.

It was a lot of work but it's so nice to know for once my house is clean :)

What used to be Nellie's room

So there you have it - a tour of our house with the new carpet :). Kaisa had asked to see it so let it be known that I delivered =)