Thursday, February 13, 2020

Renovation and Birthdays

I'm writing this blog in Calexico, CA - yes, we are on our way to the Baja!  Tomorrow morning we will cross the border and start our drive down!  It's 69 degrees out and it feels SO WARM!!  We're both ready for some warmth after the last couple of days of packing!

But backing up, we headed up to Denver on a Thursday morning so Glenn could start renovating Jessi and Gary's bathroom on the main level!  The guys had pulled up the tile the last time we were up there and Gary had it prepped for the sub floor!  So the guys started in......

It started snowing Thursday late afternoon as we took Kenzie to her dance class and continued snowing during the night - to the point where school was called off on Friday!!  Jessi and I went out for coffee (just close by) and found the roads to be miserable!  Good thing she cancelled her Friday appts!

The kids played out in the snow and had a ball - built a little fort in the front yard and enjoyed just being outside!


Glenn and Gary got the tile finished up by early afternoon on Friday so they all decided to paint pots - I passed on painting and took pictures!!  They all sure turned out cute!



Friday evening we celebrated Evan's birthday since we'll be gone when his birthday comes around!  I think his hair was a little wild after playing outside a lot of the day!  He loves blueberry muffins so we all shared those!


Saturday morning (after the snow had FINALLY quit) I headed up to Ft Collins to see Jill's family - Kenzie tagged along and had fun playing with Aleah!

Parker had been sick the week before so he was just starting to feel better!!  We celebrated his birthday early too!  And he enjoyed a smoothie!  He was pretty excited to get some Roblux money to play with on one of his games!


The girls had fun playing outside and Parker even joined them for a while!


Jill and I ran some errands, played games with the kids and we all enjoyed pizza that night!  We spent the evening watching a movie with Robby!

It was cloudy Sunday morning when we got up and the morning flew by!  Jill took this cool picture of the girls before Kenzie and I headed out right after lunch!


It was back to the Keppys and we couldn't wait to see the finished bathroom!  Of course it took longer than what we thought but the end result was well worth it!  It looks fantastic!!


We made it home just as darkness fell - and even though we knew we had gotten snow, we just didn't realize that with the 7" on Friday and another 3" Sunday afternoon that the driveway would be so bad!  No, we didn't make it up!  Glenn tried a couple of times but it was a no go so we just parked it at the bottom.  I then realized that I didn't have a key to get in the house as we always go in through the garage but the remote is programmed to the car and it was out of reach to open!

We lugged up our bags that had to come in and Glenn tried a credit card to get in the mechanical room but that didn't work!!  It was DARN COLD OUT standing on the porch but pretty soon I heard Glenn come to the door!  He still had the ladder leaning up against the hot tub deck and he climbed that icy thing and crawled over the railing - luckily the french doors to the deck were NOT locked!  Saved again!!!  Guess I'll start carrying a key!

2 comments:

Teri said...

So glad you are on your way - enjoy! Anxious to hear all about Mexico and the warm weather. What a pain getting into your house!

Jill said...

It was a great weekend with you! So glad you and Kenzie came up!