Children are gone
Well the house is child free! Danny has come and gone and Ashley is in Minnesota enjoying her summer vacation there. My mother suggested that I use my extra free time to post an update here. Well that was a good suggestion. Let’s see… construction continues throughout the house. We are currently waiting on the delivery of our lazy susan to be able to complete the upper cabinets in the kitchen. The lower cabenits are on hold momentarily due to other projects. I have side tracked Paul for the moment from the kitchen to work on some changes to Ashley’s room while she is gone. We use the time in the summer when we are child free to completely empty, clean and redo Ashley’s room. That way I know that at least once a year it is cleaned my way. This year we are redesigning her loft bed to give her a reading area underneath along with her dresser. We have also taken the time to blow insulation into all the exterior walls in her room. Finally Paul has taken a page from HGTV’s Wasted Spaces and decided to build in 2 shelf units between the studs on her interior wall. 
Once painted we will add adjustable shelves. There will be a matching one on the other side of her closet. This will be a place for her to display her favorite things, or her books or maybe some of both. As we get projects completed I will try to post pictures, but all of this is a suprise for Ashley. She knows we are changing her room and knocking holes in the walls but she is not sure why. We only give her small pieces of the picture. I guess I am going to go pour over more paint samples. I HATE picking paint colors, especially for Ashley when she is not here.