New Basement Drywall

NEW Cement Patio!!

Our New Patio was poured today. It looks great. Now that it's complete we need to fix the sprinklers and get the rest of this back yard in shape.:) It will one day be a great backyard for a little family. :)

OVER GROWN AND DEAD IS OUT!!

We have been working really hard... cleaning up the front the yard. We ripped out the overgrown shrubs in front of our house. Which really helped open up the front of the house.

Kaboom went the Housing Market.

Friends and Family... it looks like we will be in Layton at least 6-8 more months. When the stock market crashed it had big impact on the housing in our area. The comps we were looking at dropped in value 15-25k. So we would never get what we need out of our house. So we will be looking to list the house in the Spring, which is probably a better time to try to sell anyways. Not many people want to move in the fall/winter unless they have too. So we are not going to rush to try to get this house on the market by Labor day. We will continue to work on it... and make it the perfect home for a family.

Basement Update

New Plumbing added... for the mini kitchen we are adding in the basement. (Pictured Above)

New Full Bathroom (Pictured Above)

(New Office Pictured Above)

Well it's been awhile since I have updated you on the basement progress, but for a good reason
because there really hasn't been any progress. Bruce has been working full time, going to school full time and when and where he can..... he works on the house. But the basement is starting to get some attention again.. YAY!!! Jessica spent hours getting Drywall bids to do what we would consider a very small drywall job, but never the less we don't want to do it. We have done so much drywall in this house already and Jessica hate's it. Some of the bids nearly $2,000. If we did it ourselves materials it would only cost us $220.00. But Jessica wanted to hire it out because time is money. Jessica finally found a drywall guy under $1,000. Horray!!! Bruce has some plumbing and electrical work to finish this weekend. We hope the dry wall guys will be able to start Monday. :) Here are some pictures of the framing of the new office and bathroom. We took the awkard layout of the basement family room and created an office.

Backyard Renovation Underway

The picture above. Where the new patio and retaining wall will be going.

The Orange line is where the cement stairs will come down from the new patio.

Our new retaining wall. Soon it will be supporting a new cement patio. It will be great to have a place to entertain friends and family