Aren't You Wondering If There's Been Any Progress?

The shower and bathroom project has been moving right along, albeit at a snail's pace.

IT WILL BE WORTH THE WAIT.

It's looking pretty fantastic, isn't it? Even with just a cement floor.

Now we're talking! It's really coming together.

Just when one part is looking good and the dust is all cleaned up, it's time to create more mess.

John installed a pocket door, so had to move the door frame over to create room for the pocket which required knocking out part of the wall and building a whole new door frame.

We wish we could keep the nice, wide opening which grants a better view to the beautiful shower.

This is standing in the shower looking out. Hello mess.

Here's my shower head. It's installed! At my perfect height! John's side is at his perfect height!

One down, three to go.

In case there is doubt, the hole in the wall where my medicine cabinet is going to go was created a year and a half ago...

Yup, there's the date in close up so there's no doubt. This next week marks the TWO year anniversary when this project started. Don't be jealous.

The kids asked why dad wrote the Dodgers logo on the wall. Little do they know yet of abbreviations for things like True Love Always. And kids these days think they own the texting language - ha! Just check out our yearbooks...they're all in code. K.I.T!

Look, the wall's back.
And there is a door! It slides. It glides! It hides in a pocket!

On another front, the school and sports year is coming to a close (yeah!!!) and with that come all the festivities. We put on a end-of-season family track club picnic for the entire club so I got to go to Costco and buy 500 of their large cookies. Oh I got some comments alright. The entire basket was completely full of boxes of cookies with Ashlyn riding in the front. The bigger surprise was having 500 cookies in the trunk of the car which took up the entire trunk of Jon's car - the kids' eyes were bulging out of their sockets when I went to pick them up from school.
We also had 100 boxes of pizza delivered for the picnic. Glad I didn't have to pick those up, too! It's hard to gage exactly how much food to buy when you don't know if there will be 325 or 499 people attending, but we did it perfectly as there was only one slice of pizza left when everyone was gone and the stadium was cleaned up, and only about a dozen or so of the oatmeal raisin cookies. Phew!

My cute niece Domonique and her friend came to town from college for a quick little summer vacation visit so we all got to go out to lunch at the Islands. It's totally awesome that Grandma Carol is in town for it, too.

Ashlyn had her last dance class

and Christian had his last baseball game. They made it to game #5 in the playoffs before they lost. One more and it would have been for the Championship game. Go Dodgers!

Look at that teeny tiny cuteness.

Next up, preschool graduation (I mean Pre-K! She always corrects me).