Weekly Writings of the Hansen Home: Blessed Day

Kyle has been leveling up his handyman skills. The houses didn't need any major repairs, but it has had a lot of little repairs. The first thing was that there was a cat smell. Not cat urine or poop, but just a really strong cat smell. The main source of it was a piece of carpeted stairs in the garage. The door to the garage weatherstripping was shredded (from the cat) and it would waft in all the time. It took a good while and lots of strength to remove the heavily glued down piece of carpet. It was glued down so well that at times chunks of wood would come off with the carpet.
He also replaced the weatherstripping, changed out door knobs, lots of high exterior lightbulbs, mowing the lawn and edging it (which had never been done), and many other things.
My parents came to visit again to help us out and for Eleanor's blessing. We washed all the walls. It took a lot of work, but it feels a lot cleaner and ours. Eventually we'll repaint, and take off wallpaper, but there's other more important fixing up to do for the next few months.
Here's a little house tour though: And no it's not picked up and spick and span. You wouldn't see pictures for many years if not ever if that's the case.

First room: The Parlor. Some would call it the living room, but we like to be fancy.

The living room, dining room and kitchen. And as you can see it is well lived in. It's night time so the windows are closed, but during the day it is very bright and wonderful.

We gave Eleanor the pink with Disney princess wallpaper room. The room is bigger than it seems here. Both the dresser and that shelf are 2 feet off the wall from when we cleaned the walls.

The blue room and race car room went to Dexter. He also just got the bunk beds (my parents gave us my old ones).
There's also 3 bathrooms, 1 laundry room, the master bedroom, and the 2 car garage upstairs. But those don't need pictures. They're pretty standard, so no imagination needed.

Downstairs in the basement has a finished bedroom that is the size of the two kid bedrooms upstairs. I don't have a wide angle and so you're missing a computer desk on the left side, and my craft desk on the right. This is the: computer/project/guest bedroom/whatever else we need it for.

And lastly is the unfinished basement. A long rectangular stretch. When moving in all the items that didn't have a home or immediate need was put down here. This only shows half of stuff, and one day I have to go through. One day... The far end of the room though has his car and a play slide. When there's snow and it's too cold outside, we'll be using this for playtime.

Since it was night I didn't get a picture of the backyard. I'll have to get that later.

So as I mentioned, we also blessed Eleanor this past weekend. Kyle blessed her, along with my dad, and the bishopric. The Hansens weren't able to come up, so it was just my family. Aunt Linda and Uncle Phil came too. They were trying to hurry over after their church, but just barely missed seeing her blessed. But they did come over and eat lunch, and visit with us afterwards.

Family picture

Me and my precious girl

Aunt Linda, Uncle Phil, and their granddaughter Ellie

Showing the three generations

My sister wanted a picture with me and the kids. This was the best one that turned out...the kids were done by this point.

And here's some random photos and notes in life.

Dex still loves and smothers her.

She slept for 8 hours for 3 days straight. Not too mention one night it was 11 or so hours...I wasn't as big of a fan of that one. But, she is such a great sleeper (90% of the time).

Eleanor is getting to look like a normal sized (so chunky in our books) baby. She definitely eats well, hence the wonderful sleeping at night. Plus I think her brother wears her out some days.