Russell working hard & me hardly working!!

So those of you who haven't been in my house I will explain. Half of my basement was already done. The other half was just left for us to finish. If you know Russell he can't just sit home and not have a project. He has told me over and over that we would probably live in our house 2 years before we finish the basement. Well this month it will be 1 yr and the basement is FINISHED!! We had to do some changes to the already build parts like ripping out 2 walls. One cause it closed off the two rooms that meet and the other by the stairs cause we wouldn't be able to get furniture down if we didn't.

This is the one wall that we had to rip out that connected Keytin's toy room and our theater room. As you can see Russell is hard at work.

This is a picture of Keytin's toy room and if you look to the right half of that wall that there is now gone. It really opened up this room a lot more.

Here is were we decided to build a wall to where our bath room will go in later down the road. That door behind Russell is again the wall that is gone.

I have kinda skipped ahead cause the other pictures of the dry wall is really boring so here is Russell cocking all of the trim and doors that we put up. As you can see Keytin is right there the whole time watching ever move Russell makes. He was awesome through this whole period of framing, dry wall, muding , and even painting.

So We have got the carpet in and as you can see the wall is gone, the other wall to the bathroom is up and this display is Keytin's TV ( Russell gave me this TV and entertainment center when we were dating. I painted the entertainment center just to give it a face lift.)

I will put a picture of the theater room when it is ready but I will say it is a light brown with a leather look that we did our self and am so proud of. The reason I want to wait is because our furniture is coming today 3-24-11 and I cant wait to get a full picture of it ( give or take a few items that will come later.)

It shocks me what Russell can do. He is like super man to me. With in a year and remember he was gone 4 months out of that year in Louisiana. But he has built up our yard by hauling himself load after loads of dirt, putting up chain link fence with a cement boarder, sprinklers, grass (front and back), and a ton of gravel. He has also made Mya and amazing dog house for a king and a friend. Finished our basement and next he wants to maybe tackle a deck on the back of our house is summer and still managing to tinker with his truck. Pulling it apart and putting it back together again. He is a mad man. and remember while he is doing all this he is still managing to put in 40- plus hours in at work every week. I love him so much and couldn't imagine my life without him.