Step One

Step one is done.  I have to admit when we first started at about 9pm Friday evening, I was so nervous I could have thrown up.  Did we know anything about sawing and jackhammering concrete?  No.  But, just as we did when we built the living room addition, we plowed ahead and took it one thing at a time. 

The girls stayed at grandma and grandpa's for the night, so the rest of us had all of Saturday to work.  David's dad and uncle Doyle came to help, too, which was huge.  We were all done by 4pm Saturday. 

 This shows the east side of the house where the new bathroom and laundry room will be.  We had remodeled this shortly after we were married to be an office. 

This is the present utility room.  The old toilet pictured here is now gone. 

This room will be used for our freezers and storage. 

The only snag we encountered was hitting the sewer pipe in a few places.  Thankfully we never went all the way through or we wouldn't have plumbing now!   We have it covered, so it doesn't smell and hopefully won't before the plumber can get here on Wednesday to put the new plumbing in.  The kids thought it was pretty neat to flush the toilet and run downstairs to watch it go through the pipes! :o)

David and I both agreed that it really wasn't all that bad doing that part ourselves.

Now . . . we wait on the professionals to come and do their part.