Linda Rokos Watts

It's so fun to dust off my dancin shoes once a year, get all dressed up and spend a lovely evening with lots of family and friends celebrating! Randy, Mom, Dad and I Randy and I Randy, Paul, Jess and I. So great to catch up with old friends! Angie, Aimee and I Some guy in the band?, Angie, Mom, Dad, Aimee and Heather. It was a great night for a great cause. I even won a $300 gift certificate to The Cork in Boulder. One of my favorite restaurants! Woo- Hoo ! My carriage is once again turned into a pumpkin and my dress has changed back into Carhartts . Lots more pics of the house coming tomorrow. Cross your fingers, hopefully we'll have the counter tops done! Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend. Oh, and a BIG, THANK YOU to Uncle Tommy for hangin with Stella last night! Much Love!

My lil bugger is kicking some major booty at swim team practice. They start with a stretch and 200 meter warm up followed by the below. 600 meters and lots of tech talk. It's so much fun to watch She seems to have endless energy. Even after swim practice she still wants to swim another 200 - 400 meters. It's a struggle to get her out of the pool every time! My lil fishy.

Unfortunately I didn't get to spend Halloween with Stella this year but she did get to spend it at her dad's and from the sounds of it she had a BLAST! With all the work we did on the house this weekend, I went out for a few hours on Saturday night to a small but REALLY fun house party with one of my favorite people in this world! I forgot to take my camera to the party but I have a few people that took some pictures there that hopefully I'll share those soon (once I get them). :) Helga the beer wench! Stella was a pirate. Aarrrrggggg ! Thanks Tyler for passing on these pics! Hope everyone had a fantastic and fun Halloween! Much love.

WHEW!!!! What a weekend! We got so much work done on the house! We started on Friday and worked pretty much straight through till tonight. With the exception of one little break for a small Halloween party for a few hours. The old kitchen counters. Ewww ! All the tile on the counters couldn't be pulled off without pulling all the plywood up so we decided to demolish it all and start fresh. We put down all new sub-flooring before the tile was to go down. It was kinda a pain in the butt but it made the tile laying much easier and level. With all the sub-flooring laid on Saturday, it was finally time to lay the tile today! Tuesday the grout gets put in and by Thursday we should be walking on it. Woot ! This weekend I also got Stella's room finally done. The colors look great. It's going to be a very warm and cozy room. Pictures of that soon! Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend, and a fun Halloween! Much Love!

Out with the yucky and in with the new pretty stuff!! The old nasty tiled floor. It took a while to get all the old broken tiles stripped off the floor but we did it! Looking back at the front door. Getting all the hardwood floor scarps we had to cut out, into the fireplace. Dad's Bobcat full of the ick ! Worked tonight till about 10:30. I am one tired girl and off to bed. Till tomorrow! Night, night!

The last few days have been a bit crazy. From being snowed in on Wednesday, to working on the house, to a fun Halloween Party at Stella's school. Teddy bouncing around in the snow with his little down jacket on! :) He may be little but he acts like a big dog who LOVES the snow! Stella and her class right before we started in on all the fun Halloween games! A fun cup-cake, cake I bought for the party. Talk about a LOT of frosting! On to the house ....most of the house is finally all primered except for the kitchen cabinet doors. Today we start knocking all the tile out and putting in new sub-flooring in, and then hopefully getting to the tile over the weekend. Smiling because I know I'm done with the primer!! Woo- Hoo ! Stella went to her dad's yesterday evening (Thursday) for the weekend and for some tick-or-treating fun. She had a Halloween party yesterday at school which I was lucky enough to make it up to. Lots of games, costumes, and way too much sugar. A perfect party...

Whew! We dodged an expensive bullet today. The house has two 40 gallon hot water heaters and up until today we thought both of them were going to have to be replaced. A $1000 for two new ones, BUT, thanks to Mr. Handyman (my dad :)) and with a little help from our friends the two hot water heaters are like new and there is more hot water then we know what to do with. WOO- HOO !!! Stella and I primed her room tonight. The electric purple and neon green are almost all gone. She got home from school and helped me for and hour and then went up to the house with my mom to have dinner and do homework while I got another coat on the wall. There is still some color showing but I think with one more coat tomorrow we should be all covered, and then the real fun begins. Stella is so excited to start putting the color she picked out on the wall, it makes me excited to start painting it for her, ever though I've been painting for 3 days straight, she keeps me going. The bugger and I. Check out ...