Home Improvement

There were some busy beavers around the house early this morning.....crack of dawn, early......Matt was still sleeping, early......Dad and Ashley did a lot of stuff around here this morning, and here are some photos of the results:

This is the new ceiling fan in Grace's room (Alison has the same one) and her display shelves from her old room are up in her new room....
New blinds in the front living room along with a mirror hung above the couch....
Close up of the new blinds in the dining room......you can almost feel the relief on the utility bill looking at the picture, can't you?.....
A new decorative piece that Ashley got from Vicki and Ted for her birthday a couple weeks ago....
Everybody stand back, she's got a cordless drill and she knows how to use it.....This is Ashley installing some new hooks to hold back the curtains on the patio door......Dad's arm makes a cameo appearance.....
The picture and the candle-holder-thingies ('nother gift from V & T) on the family room wall.....
This is what the crew looked like by the end of all the work.......
We also pulled a lot of the nails out of the walls left from the previous owners and patched/painted those too.....Now all we need is a painter to return our phone calls, do an estimate, and actually paint the girls' rooms....we haven't had a painter that could do all 3 yet.