Can you say renovation?

We have been very busy working on the house, we've had to arrange someone to watch Hezekiah almost all of the days since it's just not safe nor would we be able to get anything done on the house with him being there. It's been long weekends, and Andrew and Eric have been spending most nights after work on the house as well. We have had to do a lot of prep work on the walls since a lot of the walls had wallpaper. We thought only 2 rooms had wallpaper but it seems there was quite a bit more in the other rooms. We have 4 bedrooms and 1 bathroom now textured with what is called Knock Down, makes the walls looks more professionally done than the normal flat walls which shows every little hole and gash. Now, it's onto 1 bathroom, living room, laundry room, office, and kitchen to be done and then we will be ready to paint the walls within the next week or so. We have some more minor things to do, but all in all we seems to be progressing quite a bit and CANNOT wait to actually be living in the house and out of the apartment. Here are some pictures of the work being done within the last couple of days.

More photos...

Had some fun this afternoon with my camera some more... Hezekiah and Andrew were my models today. Photography is so much fun, and I just love natural lighting and how it shades the face and lights others. I think I am really going to have fun doing this sunset wedding in Laguna Beach next month. Anyway, these were m favorites from today:

Manual

Having some fun with manual settings, I love being able to just adjust the aperture or ISO and get a cool photos. Hezekiah was napping so I couldn't use him as my subject so I quickly grabbed one of my willow tree figurines and put it in front of my window. I am also testing some different methods for creating a sepia toned photos, I am very picky about sepia- I do not like ones that look too yellow. So this is one method for doing sepia with my manual settings:

This one...

Is just for Nicole Leonard since I don't hardly ever enter contests:

7 days and counting down...

Last night we signed out loan documents, it was very surreal and not without some sort of activity. The entire time we're trying to sign loan documents, our crazy and fun child decided he wanted a cookie and kept saying "cookie more" and meanwhile throwing himself on the floor and trying to open the door to the room we were in. And then out of nowhere he started sucking his thumb and before I knew it he was out like a light! Sheesh the life of a toddler is so up and down lol. So we actually just need to provide SPFC a few items on the sale of Andrew's Acura before can get funded. So other than those items, we are going to be closing on May 15th.

We have to do some things to the house before we can move in, we need to strip and paint the walls, put in carpets, replace some outlets, replace some closet doors, get a new garage door and front door, and well I could go on some more but for now these are the things we need to do before we can move in. Luckily we don't have to be out of our apartment until July 30th, so we have time to do all the things we want before we move. Up until recently, Andrew refused to let me pack anything because he did not want to jinx anything. Now that we are so close, I think by the time we close he will actually let me pack now. It's going to be really nice being closer to work, and not have to worry about hearing neighbors being absolutely ridiculous upstairs from us. That is one thing, I will NOT miss at all.

Andrew is going to be gone until Saturday, he and his friend David decided to go on an overnight camping trip. So this weekend, Hezekiah and I are going to chill out at home and maybe make a trip to Target and the Grocery store and just take it easy!