A Work in Progress

I blogged a while back about the busted pipe in our bathroom and my mothers day bathtub.... well, it is one month later, but I had my first whirlpool bath last night! I had to ignore the fact that there was no tile on the floor, no front to the tub, and no paint on the walls (hence the title, "work in progress"), but it was heavenly. I lit my candles and pretended I was somewhere else... We still have lots of work to do before it is all done, but for now, I feel completely blessed to have a hubby who is so handy and saved us tons of money by doing all this work himself (in all of his spare time!), and who is so willing to do it all to please me and to create a haven for me to take a break.....

If you had not seen our funky bathroom before, you may not appreciate the beauty of the tile work, etc, but it is awesome... it was Clint's first experience with tile and he did a professional job! I love how the tile turned out... it is kinda a goldish khaki and we are going with a rust/brick red color for the walls. Here he is hard at work with the finishing touches to the faucet:

But before anyone starts to feel sorry for him, I must introduce you to his handy dandy little helper (whom he began to refer to as his "smiling shadow"). Micah was there every step of the way. Most of the work was done either after the kids had gone to bed or during naptime, and since Micah no longer naps, he helped with anything we could find to keep him busy. He even started painting for me some today! :o)

I love how proud he looks in this pic!



I aleady admitted that I was actually the first to get a nice relaxing bath last night the moment Clint got the attachment on! (I spared yall the pictures... you can thank me later!) But we had to let the 4 musketeers try it out. The first thing they said was, "wow!! this is a big bathtub!" They loved it and begged to take another bath in it tomorrow! :o) Please bear with us and ignore the pipes and the jacuzzi motor that are still exposed.... we have to build a little wall there to enclose all of that. I will post some "completed pics" when we are all done!
Rub-A-Dub-Dub
4 Boys in the Tub

They had loads of fun when we "turned on the bubbles" Bryson was literally jumping around! It was so fun to watch!

Light at the end of the tunnel

First, an update on little Bry... he is still very sick. Fever last night was 104.3. Today it is down to the 102 range. Still high, but better. He does not have pnemonia... and what ever he has has moved into his eyes, so they are all bloodshot and goupy... sorry that may be TMI! The DR thinks it is either bronchialitis (sp?) or a cold on top of some asthma and allergies. So he is on a perscription antihistimine/cough syrup, breathing treatments, eye drops, tylenol and motrin... I am praying hard that he feels better soon... not only bc it is so hard to see him so sick and lethargic, but also bc we are planning to go to Port Aransas this weekend, and it will totally crush the other boys to have to cancel the trip!

OK... so the drama.... I took 18 4 and 5 year old kids to the Zoo yesterday for our field trip. Clint took a sick day to take care of Bry so I could go have a break and go on the funnest day of the year with my kids... crazy, but fun! When I got home, I headed to my room to change clothes and check email, and my entire bedroom floor was covered in water. I couldnt figure out if it was my waterbed leaking (a quick, easy, cheap thing to fix) or if it was coming thru the wall from the bathroom (messy, time consuming, and super expensive to fix)... and it was the latter. We have a busted pipe in our master bathroom. Clint went to the street to turn off the water while I headed for the towels and mop. We got the mess cleaned up... kinda... and headed to my mom and dads to drop off the kids and head to Lowes. We have taken the 4 of them to Lowes before, but it is a total zoo, so since Mimi and PawPaw are way more fun that Lowes, we went with that option. We decided that we were going to have to spend quite a bit of money anyways on the tile and it was going to be hard to match and patch it, so we decided to just go ahead and retile the whole thing. Well, while we were there, I got to talking about my yukky old bathtub and the hard water stains and rust that we cant got off of it (we now have a water softener, but it was too late for the tub). There is also some cracks in it, so it is impossible for me to get it very clean, and if we are going to replace it, now is the time while we are breaking out all of the old tile.... SO.... I talked clint into a new bathtub. As we were pricing those, we saw a spa-jet tub ON SALE, and mothers day is right around the corner, and it was not going to cost thatmuch more in the big scheme of things, so we went for it!!! yay!!! I have always wanted one of those!! Happy mothers day to me!! So it is super annoying that we are down to one bathtub right now, (especially since we have company coming on thursday!) but my light at the end of the tunnel is that in a few weeks, I hope to be basking in my new spa bath tub with cool jets, reading a good book and sipping on something indulging! (*fingers crossed real tight*)

On a totally different subject, my little nephew (my "best" nephew) was due last week and he is still cookin.... We are praying for you, Jarrell! And we are ready for you to come and meet your precious momma and daddy! Angie... you hang in there! We love you and we cant wait to see you as a mommy!