November and some snow

 We got a dusting of snow last night. Temps are going to be 40 later on today. I was enjoying the snow-less  ground and now we are starting all over again with the white stuff! Making more progress on our floor, but not much on putting back all the stuff we moved. Steve is now almost done with the main level covering up all that golden oak. He's at the back wall about 2 feet left and then only the porch. We are putting that on hold till after Thanksgiving so we have a table and a room not full of stuff. We will have to clear out the porch and move everything out of there. The carpet has to come up and out. We have the fun task of building up the floor to match the height of the other floor. I'm hoping we can just find plywood the same height.

I started my own project on Saturday. Sanding our stairs to get all the poly off and re-stain to try and match our new floor color. The golden oak color was still very golden, so the dark stain didn't really do much to cover that up, but it at least is less golden. I did every other stairs so we could still go up without touching the wet stain. I'll finish the rest today. I'll still be in search of a better stain match. For now, this is our only option and its not even close to the color of our flooring!

You can't really tell from this photo, but the buffet in the kitchen is now almost done with the floor. Steve had to put base trim all around the bottom since it was open under. It would have been impossible to put flooring under since we can't move it. The cabinet is sitting on round legs. Same with our kitchen counter legs. We will be boxing them in at the bottom and painting gray. Another tiny project to add to the floor. 

Since we worked all day on the floor and with the house stuff all over, it was easier to just pick up pizza.  We've been doing lots of Domino's in the last few weeks. Picking it up and using a coupon only sets us back $8. Not too bad for a 3 topping pizza. I used another coupon on Steve's Chicken Mexican pizza for $11. 

While having pizza, we had a few drinks and all played cribbage together. The kids and Steve watched a movie and I went up to bed. Those drinks knock me out! 

One of my favorite photos of Logan. Love the matching background with his shirt.