And We're Off!

Last night was a fun night at the flip house! Chad and Cory got to work right after they got home from their full time jobs. I stopped over after I got off work, and we made a lot of progress! Chad and I pulled all the weeds in the yard and on the driveway and sidewalk. Cory and Chad went to town removing the unfortunately fake fireplace in the living room. We ended up scratching up the ceiling a little bit, so that will need to get fixed when Dad tapes and textures. But, it is now gone, so that is good.

Once that big project was taken care of, it was time for a little silliness. Cory had his MP3 player going, and the Cupid Shuffle came on. All work was dropped while the three of us took a few minutes to dance around the living room. Hopefully no one saw us through the windows as we're doing the shuffle all over the floor...;)

We also met the neighbors last night. They seem like nice people and asked us to make sure we sell it to good people when we're done. We told them we'd do our best! Chad toured one of the neighbor's houses and they both toured ours. One of the neighbors had a great idea of something fun to do with the opening left behind by the fake fireplace. We are going to take progressive pictures as we go along, put them in a little photo album with the dates on the back, and seal them up in the wall! What fun for someone someday if they ever decide to do another remodeling project! :)

Steph stopped by a little later in the evening and she and I chatted away while the guys proceeded taking down some of the cabinets in the kitchen. What a surprise the guys found when they opened up the cabinet above the fridge! Steph and I thought they must've come across a pile of cash with the way they were going nuts. We jumped up and ran in there to find them pulling bottle after bottle of liquor out of the cabinet. It looks like we have a remedy for those days when the work gets a little stressful...ha! :)

We ended up calling it a night shortly after that and home we all went.

Today Chad took the day off from work and decided to take care of a few things at our house and the flip house. He now has two lawns to mow, so as he was at the flip house working on that, he encountered a couple of guys from Wright Tree Service who were trimming trees for Xcel Energy. Chad discovered that they were the ones who had trimmed the nasty cluster trees in the backyard and left the remnants behind the garage. After striking up a conversation, he was able to have them chop down the remainder of the trees for us (we wanted them to go anyway, and they were interferring with the power lines besides) and it didn't cost us a thing in money or labor! I love when things turn out like that...:)

Tonight is a rainy night, so we are taking the evening off to snuggle up at home, make some spaghetti for supper, and watch the Twins game on TV. Life is grand!