Thursday was our last day of school and my last day teaching Kindergarten! I will be teaching 1st grade next year and I am so excited about it! We had an end-of-the-year party outside with the 7 other Kinder classes with a bunch of games the kids could choose from. It was a lot of fun! I will miss my kiddos, but I'm sure I'll have some of them again next year in 1st! Here are a few pictures of some of my kids. Yea for summer time!!
Well the tile folks finally finished at midnight on Saturday. Halie and I both think they did a really good job. Halie's in love with the floors so that means that I am happy too. Right now I am working on putting new baseboards back up. Halie is busy cleaning the dust off everything. When we eventually get everything in ship shape we'll post some final pics.
Day 3 and things are finally starting to come together. As you can see tile is being laid. They have done a great job, especially with the pathway around the bar. We were a little worried about that because we drew that pathway ourselves, through the carpet. There is dust everywhere and our fridge is still in the den, but soon we'll be able to clean everything back up and enjoy our new floors.
Day 2 - They finished tearing out all of the old tile and tack strips. In order to make the floor nice and smooth they had to spread "float" everywhere. This is a picture of the float that is drying. Apparently new houses in Collin/Denton don't have very smooth foundations so we required float everywhere. José the installer says the older homes in Dallas have perfectly smooth slabs. Go figure.
Halie and I are embarking on a very ambitious flooring project in our home. When we bought our house 2 years ago the previous owner had put in builder's grade carpet for the quick sell. Well, it is already showing signs of wear in the high traffic areas. The previous owner also laid his own ceramic tile and let's just say that craftsmanship is not one of his gifts.
We've decided that we're going to be in this house for several more years so the floors need to be replaced at some point. We've decided to put tile in all of the high traffic areas as well as replace the existing ceramic tile. Halie paintstakingly picked out the perfect tile for us. The crew is coming this morning to start tearing stuff up. We will keep you posted on the progress. Check out the photo album for the before pictures. All the furniture and baseboards are removed, but you get the idea.
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