...this one time Aaron and I used gas......

Progress on the house! It all started with a mass painting party. Lucky for us we had help, a lot of help! (Affletranger, Walker, Nicholas, Osmond, Jaek, Haymore) So we have painted, carpeted, sanded the floors, stained the floors and out of the whole thing we have gotten a lot of things: I got swollen feet (couldn't fit into my cute grey heel today had to wear the red), Nathan can't walk (not sure which hurts more the knees or the back), I woke up at 4am because my wrist hurt from sanding, and Nathan has calluses on his hands from the proclaimed "EZ sander". But we are not complaining it has been hilarious. We found out the back door handle was jerry-rigged in with news paper and bits of wood so we have to now replace the door, the basement door didn't lock period so we have to replace it too, speaking of the basement Kenza lost a toenail while coming up the basement stairs a little to fast, the fuze box in the basement is also jerry-rigged fyi (and yes I said fuze box it is that old we are guessing circa 1952) so that has to be replaced to. We found that out the easy way, we turned on the sander and it shorted out one outlet then another then another then another and then another. We shorted out every outlet in the house before we called the electrician. When he came he kept saying "wow!" as he shined his flashlight into various areas, "wow this house is wired for cable in every room", "wow why would they do that", or just plain "wow" and we stopped asking. So we are learning a lot about this little house. We are laughing (more at eachother than witheachother), sometimes crying (as we try to get up after kneeling for 4 straight hours), but most of all enjoying it. The part I enjoyed the most was today as Nate and I were trying to get the floor stain off our hands with the paint thinner.... all I could think was "petrochemicals are so bad, I can feel myself getting sick from all this exposure!" when Nate offered this hummdinger," one time my brother and Aaron and I were cleaning up after a job and we couldn't find paint thinner so we just used gas..." and that was enough for me! He walked right in to a "well that explains a whole lot" and then I just couldn't stop laughing.