Once the walls were dry Derek moved on to tiling.

Sunday morning Derek started throwing up some tile.  For his first big tiling project he did quite well.  I myself was unable to help due to my “condition”.  I like putting my baby bump into this phrasing because it gets me out of a lot of things I don’t want to do. Tee Hee Hee.  Just kidding.  Well kind of.

I don’t really mind doing jobs like this.  I would prefer to do manual labor rather than doing dishes or cleaning a house.  You see I grew up with a dad that let me help in lots of his at home projects.  As a matter of fact, my dad and I had a tradition on the weekends.  We would watch “This Old House” together in the AM.  I learned lots of what I know today from watching Bob Vila, in all his manual labor glory, and helping my dad around the house.  I use to ask for power tools for Christmas, and sometimes still do.

Back to Derek and his first big tiling project.  Derek has tiled before at our house, but it was just the fireplace and on that project he had the help of his lovely wifey.

Pretty good, eh?

Yes, yes, yes….we did fix the crack in the wall in the image above.  Those cracks are from the interesting repair work the guys did using a combo of tile adhesive and joint compound.  Don’t worry…I went back a few days later and corrected all the cracking and un-sanded and un-painted areas.

Here he is about to get his grout on.

Getting his grout on.

I helped for about 10 minutes just so the poor kid could stop and rest his sweet little arms and back.  Grouting is hard work.  While I did my 3×3 foot area Derek just laid down on the bathroom floor and rested.  Kind of adorable if you ask me.

Grayson even helped out.  He offered his room to store all the supplies.  What a good kiddo.

Little girl helped out too.  She offered her services guarding the front door.  She made sure no mass murderers, thieves, bugs, leaves, or kitty cats made it through that front door.  Or entered our front yard for that matter.

To help spruce up the place we decided to do away with the old and outdated shower kit that currently resided in the tub.

We purchased us a newer, prettier shower kit from overstock.com.  And for quite a bargain…only $78.99.  BAM!!!

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