Monthly Archives: May 2015

Cape May – Finished!

I sent Celso photos Friday morning and he dropped by, looked at the property & posted it for rent that day. He showed it to two families yesterday, and it looks like we might already have a serious renter! We use Celso (3 Guys Properties) to locate a renter. They do the credit check, get the lease signed and then turn it over to us to manage.

I was able to to capture “after” photos matching up to the before photos, but I didn’t always take identical “during” photos.

The living room before, during and after.

   
  
 

Opposite angle.   
  

Master bedroom before and after.

   

  

 Opposite angle.

 

  
Small closet under stairs in master bedroom.

   
 

Four months of hard work, every day. I think Bruce may have taken only a couple Sundays off during this time. I can’t even begin to say all the work he did – from digging footings, to pouring concrete, to doing electrical, to (what he does best) supervising, among tons of other things.

Cyndy came in and did the finishing work – trim, crown moulding, IDEAS!, paint, more ideas, crawling in the small places to do finishing work.

All there is left to do now is for Bruce to clean out the garage (aka his office), which will most likely remain the property management storage and workspace.

I’ve got more photos of the bathroom, laundry room and front bedroom I’ll post in the next day or two. I posted kitchen and loft photos already.

Here’s a panoramic view of the kitchen. It looks a little warped because of the nature of the photo, but you can see in one photo all the cabinets and built-ins.

 
Whew! Next project?  ðŸ™‚

Lastly, HAPPY MOTHERS DAY to my mom and all the moms out there reading my blog today, all one or two of you!  Haha.

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Batman vs Spartacus

He is such a happy boy these days.  I guess he’s making up for all the tears & commotion of his baby days.  In the photo below, he looks like total mischief!  

Siblings … All they need now is a whip to get Buster to move a little faster!

 
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Incognito

According to Akuch, Alo wasn’t happy about that butterfly.

Look how adorable the little doggie is below, and what the heck is that thing next to it?  Oh dear …  & no, that isn’t Walmart.

  
 

It’s a bird.  It’s a plane.  It’s SuperAlo!!  

Maya – the Queen of Corona.  Almost 3 years old and already following in her mother’s footsteps!  The shame of it all.

Would someone please tell these people Halloween isn’t until October!

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Sparty is ONE!!

We celebrated with a small gathering last night for pizza, salad and ice cream cake.

   
      The before and after cake photos.  You know it’s your second child when you totally space out & put the cake within arms reach of the 1 year old.  Everyone was so preoccupied, Sparty had the opportunity to grab a handful of frosting before we knew it.

   


  

 

   

 

Of course, a bath was required to clean up all the cake mess.

  

We also Skyped Robb Akuch & Alo.  Akuch’s stomach is HUGE!!  And still two months to go…   
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Oh My!

This is one messy eater!

  
      
We had a last minute babysitting gig yesterday. With no food in the house, the kids split a Salisbury steak Lean Cuisine for lunch & loved it. By the time they were done & as you can see Sparty had food everywhere. They were both great & we had a good time.

Two more days and this little bugger turns ONE!  The countdown begins.

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May Day

We had an all nighter last Saturday with Maya and Sparty.  Above, Maya and Pappa watch the metamorphosis of the sponge creature.   Below, Maya helps Pappa make meatballs while Sparty naps.  You can see the sponge creatures drying on the paper towel behind her.  The yellow citrus peeler was our “magic wand.”
   
Click on the link below for the meatball video.  I should warn you it’s 5 minutes …

http://youtu.be/povV591JIiE

Sparty’s really getting around now.  He turns ONE on Tuesday!!

 

Here’s Sparty in action.  Click on the link to see the video:

http://youtu.be/vNjeTXvtwww

A good time was had by all!

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