Monday’s Project’s

I almost always have my Monday’s as a day off from work at the church, so I try to stay busy with projects around the house.  Christi has been asking me for quite a while to fix the floor around the slider going out onto the deck.  It must be getting moisture in around the floor and finally rotted out the oak flooring around the slider.  When her little Charlie who is a cute little day care boy, but he likes to get into anything he can, started eating at the floor she said I better get this fixed soon. Here is a picture of the floor underneath and you can see how rotten it was.  I had to go all the way down to the floor joists because the subfloor was rotten too.

I ended up taking out about 5 Oak planks.  I could have done up to 9 of them as that is how many new ones I had, but once I started I quickly learned they do not want to come up very easy or clean.  They are locked together and glued so I stuck with just 5.  I had to put a new subfloor down next and then a 1/8” layer on top of that and then finally the new flooring.  I had to trim all the planks because I would not be able to interlock them like they were when installed new.

Here you can see I have the subfloor and 1/8” flooring down and am ready to install the new floor boards.  I would have to glue them down and put some heavy weights on them until the glue dried.  That’s where Christi’s Creative Memories books came in handy along with a heavy bag of sand.

And here is the finished project.  Does not blend in too well with the old floor as that has faded over the years but at least it’s solid and we won’t have little Charlie trying to get his daily fiber off from the floor.

Progressive Dinner

If you have hopped over here from my Creative Crew blog I told you about how several of our family members had recently bought "new" condos in the Hudsonville area. And you saw this card that I made for each of them,

and then I gave each one a Rose scented candle as a house warming gift.

It is so nice to have these cousins, Aunts and Uncles living closer.

Dale, my dad, and my Uncle Duffy all helped my cousin Cathy with painting, installing, electrical, etc. so I thought it would be a fun idea to have a progressive dinner so we could all see one another's homes. Our home isn't new, but we did recently do all the paint and remodel on our main level. We started out at my cousin Robin's condo...

where she had my Aunt Allie and Uncle Mike move in with her so she could help out with my uncle health care. Robin (with the help of her sister Karri) served a delicious salad,

This is Karri, Robin, my mom, and Cathy

but we also really enjoyed the trail mix that she had sitting out. I hove how they set the table up with the M&M centerpiece! She must have been thinking just of me!! haha - it must be a family weakness.


Since we have the largest area I said I would have the main course.

I chose to make spaghetti and home made garlic bread - YUMMO!!

It was fun showing them around the house while Dale and my dad pitched in to get the spaghetti and garlic bread on the table.I just love a man who will work in the kitchen!!

We finished our night up at Cathy's condo for dessert. Cathy is a self professed "non-cook", but she still did a great job picking out DELICIOUS desserts for us to enjoy.

This is my Uncle Mike (my mom's brother) and my Aunt Allie with my mom

We didn't go to my Uncle Duffy's condo as he was in the middle of tearing down wallpaper so I guess that will have to wait for another visit.

Hope you enjoyed our Progressive Dinner with us. Bet you could even catch a whiff of the garlic bread and spaghetti!!

Christi