It's done... almost!

108
hours worked installing flooring

11
take out meals

5
nights without our children

42
tiles Eric had to smash and scrape up

36
Boxes of laminate wood in dark oak




9
 door frames that had to be sawed and banged out

3
closets that had to be floored

120
linear feet of baseboards I painted

1,000,000
feet of carpet tack line that had to be pryed up
(ok, not really, but it really felt like it)

6
rolls of underlayment I laid while Eric installed the flooring

4
power tools

800
square feet of new floors!

We love how it turned out!  Our house feels so fresh now. 

I can't wait to see what the boys think of their room!

 

We rearranged some decorations to update the living room.

  

We had to completely drain and clean the aquarium in order to install the floors.  In the process, we lost Hoover, our giant sucker fish.  Hopefully the kids won't be too upset and will enjoy getting new fish for the tank.

Although it was a lot of hard work and a big undertaking for us, we are so glad we did it.  I think I gained a couple pounds during the installation since the only breaks we took were to eat, so I really enjoyed mealtimes!  We wore ourselves out.  Eric installed some of the baseboards, but we ran out of time so some of them will have to wait.  Any advice on how to clean the floors?  I'm on the look out for a great dust mop now that the construction work is done.  We miss our kids like crazy and can't wait to see them!