I was banned from all work on the house this weekend - My back was still bothering me, so I was forced to go shopping. I stopped by the house on Friday night with samples of flooring and picked out the Dakota in Grey/Peach. It looked like grey and white to me, I don't know where they got the peach idea. www.congoleum.com. I decided that we need to paint the cabinets a cream-ish color and paint the doors a nice soft sage. Additionally, I picked out the tile for the backsplash, and the colors of the tile match the floor and the cabinets! HA! As I was knee deep in little paint samples I was wishing Connie or Genevieve was there, I feel like such a color idiot. I just wished I had somebody with an art degree helping me, but I think I did pretty good.

On Friday night, Rob contined the manual labor. He removed the drywall in the bathroom, pulled out the duct work that was in the way and clipped all the pipes to prepare them for the move. You can really see the layout of the new bathroom and it looks great. We're so glad we decided to expand that bathroom, that extra space for the vanity and closet will make a world of difference.

Saturday, Mom and I went to Best Buy and Sears to price out all the applicances we need to buy. Fridge, washer, dryer and dishwasher. Best Buy clearly had the best buys so we will be purchasing all our appliances there, plus 18 months no finance fee on the Best Buy credit card. Sears is in the mall so we tried on clothes at NY and Co, I got a linen shirt and a summer swater. We had a lovely lunch at the mall and then I went home and took a nap.

Saturday morning, Rob went over to the hosue and piled the PRS truck with all the old drywall, posts, beams, tile floor, old toilets and hot water heater. Keep in mind there was a monsoon going on while he was doing all this. He took all that to the dump by himself and then woke the princess up from her nap.

Sunday, we decided that since we had the truck we should get all the big things from Home Depot, I can't lift, drag, pull or cary so we decided I would watch Max's kids while he helped Rob at the hardware store. This was my toughest job all weekend. A 5 yr old and a 3 yr old. "Brigette watch me!" "Brigette look at me" "My dad lets me have 2 pieces of candy". Later on that night I told Rob that I am having ONE child. I can't do 2.

Rob came home from the Home Depot with a new vanity, tiolet, sheetrock, 2x4's and (of course) more tools. That man collects tools like I collect shoes/bags. Now he has all the supplies needed for rebuilding and we anticipate that being accomplished by this weekend. We located a leak in the basement that has been perplexing us, the sump pump has a little ridge arount it that prevents water from flowing into the hole and shoots the water into the middle of the basement. Fortunatley it was an easy fix.

Sunday was our year anniversary so we took the night off and had a wonderfull romantic dinner. We ordered 2 appetisers and inhaled them. Our steaks showed up and we cleaned those plates as well. The waitier was pretty amused by us. All that work makes you hungry! Well, I didn't work too hard but I had empathy hunger for Rob and ate everything on my plate.