We’re going to Tennessee!!!

Yesterday, Shane and I booked a hotel for a trip to Tennessee this fall for our fifth anniversary. A whole five years of marriage!!! We figured we should actually go somewhere to celebrate this year instead of staying at home. Last year, we spent our anniversary fixing up the outside of the house we had just bought.

That’s another “wow” thought. We’ve lived in our new house almost a full year now. This year’s project, the bathroom, is nearing completion. We’ve been able to use the tub and sink now for a couple weeks (just in time since the basement bathroom sump pump just went out!) I even tore out all the shelves from the closet, painted, and put in a new shelving unit this week. (As those of you who have seen me with blue paint on both elbows know…) Really, all we have left to do is touch up some nicks in the paint, hang the towel hooks and put in the baseboards. I guess I owe ya’ll some finished bathroom pictures, huh? I’ll see what I can do.

—Sally Petty

 

The other Nate Smith

….is beating me. I don’t think I can get 1,000 people to his site. I just might have to grow that moustache.

He e-mailed me during the flood, asking if I was getting people involved. They were all out there, filling up sandbags.

Oh, a note on the house. We are almost to completion and should be ready to move in a couple weeks. Maybe… I might have to enlist all the members of my wife’s family to help.

— Nate Smith

 

Renovation continued

At the Smith home, we are quietly and carefully working on our bathroom. While Sally and Shane are working on one room, we are working on several different projects.

Today at the house, Dad finished the final coat of drywall mud and we were ready to sand. Unfortunately, the air was a little moist and the mud did not finish drying. We will get there probably on Wed.

In other house news, I spent a while retouching the celings while my Dad took out the old kitchen lights in preparation for new lights in the kitchen. Hopefully by this weekend, Allison and I will be ready to paint in there.

Here’s a picture of Colin on a fake deer at my Grandpa’s to distract you all. My Uncle Kent is the one holding him. Seven months old, three teeth and doesn’t look a think like me. I am so proud.

— Nate Smith

 

About time

My wife is due on Oct. 22, but it looks like we could have this kid early. If you all don’t hear from me, that’s why. I’m out helping my wife have a kid.

BTW, Sally should go with putting green. Better yet, her and Shane should put a putting green in their house for me.

— Nate Smith