House Update Jan 16th

First off, I have no pics to show you today, but use your imagination.

The last blog was when we started laying the hardwood floor on Monday the 7th and finished the dinning room. On Tuesday Ron, Brian and Brian and I extended the hardwood into the kitchen and family room. On Wednesday Brian D and I finished the kitchen and family room. On Thursday Brian W, Blair, Steve and I finished the front room and started the hallways. On Friday Krista and I finished the hallway leading to the master bedroom (fitting that Krista and I did that together). On Saturday Steve, Dave, Brian D and I finished the rest of the hallways and front bedroom to complete the laying of the hardwood. My best guess would be a total of 88 man hours went into that flooring, all of which was after hours or weekend time.
Special thanks to all those who helped on that project, and the wives & girlfriends that let them help (Marcy, Sarah, Karen, Beth, Tina and Avery).

Also going on on Saturday, Brian W hung our last door leading from the garage to the house and my dad and mom started our finished electrical. (If you need outlet and switch plates hung, my mom is pro at it.)

Sunday we rested!

Monday brother Brian and I hung our siding on the front of the house, while my dad kept moving on the electrical.

Last night was base board night. Justin, Brian, Brian and I blew through 98% of the baseboards. We would have finished but I under estimated by one stick. Mean while, but dad kept rolling with the electrical and Matt Ely came by and hung all of our registers HVAC.

Today between 1&4 we will have our counter tops installed and tonight we will install some closet doors and door knobs.

I'll post some pics as soon as I can.

House pics as of Jan 8, 08

Here are a couple of updated pics (low quality camera phone pics) of the latest happenings at the Williamson house...
Brian Douglas, Brother Brian and I started laying the hardwood floor last night...only the living room, family room, kitchen, hallway and front bedroom left to do...

The blur you see is Jaime finishing up the grout in our master bath...

House Pics as of Jan 3 08

It has been a long time since many of you have seen any pictures of the house, so here you go...

Here is the front of the house with a close up of the door. The door looks a little purple, but that is just the primer and will eventually be black.
Moving inside you can see the paint on the walls, which is similar to Restoration Hardware store colors.
Front entry area...

Here is the dinning Room...

Guest Bath...

Kitchen...

Family Room...

Master Bath Tile Floor...

Master Bedroom....

View from the back yard. Door on the right leads to the master bed, the door on the left leads to the family room...

We are hoping to be moving in the house within the next 4 weeks or so...assuming the weather doesn't hold us up...

Rose Bowl

Jan 1, 08, Rose Bowl USC vs Illinos.
It was a great way to start the new year off...Thank you Brad!

We started the day off with a breakfast at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. Waffles anyone?

Then we hopped on the bus for a relaxing, no-stress drive into the Rose Bowl, the only way to travel.

After bypassing all the general traffic the bus pulled right up to the front of the Rose Bowl and headed over to the Hospitality tents.

Of course you can't get in without one of these...

Once in we headed over to the ESPN tent and found a nice corner of the tent and got comfortable and watched Michigan take care of Florida in the Captial One Bowl...

Brian was able to catch a quick nap before the game.

Off to the game...

A fly bye is always a great way to start a game!

Thanks to our new friend Brian from ESPN New York for snapping this shot. Keep us posted when you come back to So Cal and we'll get you to an In N Out in a nice part of the state.

We left a few minutes early, but the game was clearly in hand by over powering USC team.

Good time had by all...unless you are Illini fan.

Thanks to ESPN, DirecTV and Bradly for making this all possilbe.