Extreme Homemakeover Family Edition

It started with a simple conversation in August while sitting around with family one lazy day.

"My mom is trying to figure out what colors she should paint her house..."

"oh! We should remodel your moms house for her!"

What?! really?!

"and we should do it over Thanksgiving weekend"

Lets get the ball Rollin!!!!

After only 2 months to plan and prepare and pick out new flooring, paint colors and carpet...

Turkey day finally arrived and so did around 15 family members......

We all went to work...and didnt stop for 4 days! sun up to sun down.

After day #1 Mom stayed at my house so she could watch the 'babies' while we all worked on the house so it ended up being a complete suprise for her at the end.

Everyone worked together flawlessly.

Craig got his 'ghostbusters' on...and attacked the house with the spray gun!

The rest of us attacked the other rooms with paint...

For sure OSHA would have shut us down had they seen the shenanegans going on there....

Here is some of the crew at the end of Day #2-paint day.

Day #3 FLOORING.

Craig, Kang, U. Dave & A. Kate went crazy on the floor while the rest of us (me) did touch ups all day long. (day 3 had a smaller work crew :) )

The fend for yourself table.

Fun to congregate around while eating triscuts & drinking out of liter bottles of soda really fast so we could get right back to work.

A HUGE improvement!!!

U. Ric working some unexpected magic on the bathroom floor.

The Project captain aka the Legend

Finished project:

The kitchen

bathroom

The crew waiting to yell MOVE THAT BUS! ha.

TA DA.

Pics after the carpet got put in the next day.

Amazing.

and it smells awsome.

and the grand finale.

Craig got the TV hooked back up.

Life could now go on. :)

We are so blessed with such a great family that works so well together.

A generous donation from my moms parents who paid for her new flooring & U. Ric's company who donated all the paint made this possible.

Along with hard working family members to help her put it all in and give up thier 4 day weekend to give thier time to my Mom to make her home a nice place to be.

We were all exausted. But there is no other feeling than to serve another. Especially my Mom.

Then hearing them all say ' it was the best Thanksgiving weekend any of them have ever had' and there was no other place they would have rather been is pretty amazing.

I love this quote. It spells out our weekend and our family perfectly.

"In family relationships, LOVE is really spelled T-I-M-E, time."