Our floors are DONE!!

Oh my gosh, we are finally finished with the floors in the 3rd room (soon to be my office)!!  We are both SO happy that they're done!!  We've been working on them since March, and that room has been unusable since we first moved in to our house. We have to wait a few more days before we can put furniture in there (they recommend waiting a week after applying polyurethane before putting furniture on your floors), so on Sunday we're going to load it up with some of the furniture that's been crammed into the guest room!  We're so excited!!

Here are the "before" pics from right after we pulled up the carpet:

This was all super sticky adhesive!!  We scrubbed for sooo many hours

And here are our beautiful floors now:

 They are soooo smooth and pretty!!  We're so happy with them. They were a LOT of work. (that white spot in the middle is just the sun shining on the floors... )

We spent a lot of time hanging out in our screened patio room this weekend so that we could have fresh air while the polyurethane dried in the 3rd room. We had to apply the poly on Saturday morning and again on Sunday morning (it needed 2 coats), so our windows were open pretty much all weekend. The fumes were SO strong, so we really couldn't be in the house for hours after applying the poly. It was kinda relaxing hanging out in the screened room though... We brought some books and magazines out, and just kinda kicked back for a few hours of "forced" relaxation. Guinness didn't enjoy this "relaxation" time as much as Kevin and I did though...

I think Guinness was quite bored during this "relaxation" time... 

We also made a lot of progress on our hall bathroom!  We are completely finished with painting in there (touch-ups are finished!), and we got the light and medicine cabinet installed (well, I didn't really help at all... but I stood there and watched while McGee installed them!), and we also got the shower curtain rod, toilet paper holder, and robe hook installed!  And we had to install the robe hook because our bathroom had a really gross robe hook on the door, so we definitely needed to have a replacement hook in that spot or there would be holes in the door...

Here's with the lights on! 

And here's with the lights off so you can see them better. 

And here you can kinda see the paint color better. Oh and at the bottom of the pic is the base part for our pedestal sink. The sink will get installed this next weekend (along with the baseboard heating covers).

On Saturday evening McGee's parents' friends were having a party, and they invited us to come. We only live about 10-15 minutes away from them, so McGee's parents met us at our house, and they dropped off a rocking chair that McGee's dad made for him awhile ago! They'd been hanging on to it for a while so we could get all settled at our house. It is SO beautiful! McGee's dad is quite a talented woodworker. We still need to organize our furniture in the living room to find the best spot for it (NOT near the fireplace... haha), but it's such a beautiful piece.

It's so comfortable too! 

The party was fun, and McGee and I actually spent a lot of our time there just sitting down outside and relaxing with a few beers. McGee only knew a few people there (his parents' friends), but it was really nice to enjoy the scenery and relax (We'd had a busy day of housework and yardwork! We were exhausted). The friends' house is in a really beautiful spot, and they own a LOT of land!  It looked like a golf course to me. They actually live next-door to M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, The Village, etc)! We were thinking/hoping M.Night might stop on over to his neighbor's party, but nope... When McGee and I left the party, we drove down towards M.Night's house to try to get a good peek at it (yes, like creepy stalkers...) but he's smart and has his house set way back and hidden from the road. 

I hope you're all having a good week so far! We're having a heat wave here... It is gross. It's mid-90s for the next week or so (and I know mid-90s temperatures are nothing to Sacramento folks!), but with the really intense humidity the "feels like" temperatures are above 100 degrees. I'm SO glad we have air conditioning now!!  That was our smartest purchase ever.