The 'holiday' weekend

As my faithful readers know that we have been working on the house, pretty much since we bought the house, ok, literally since we purchased the house we started working on it, well if you saw it when we purchased it, you would know why! The kitchen project has been yet another disaster that we are trying desperately to overcome! So, I will document what the heck has happened over the last couple of days. First, when we went to unplug the water for the icemaker in refrigerator water started spewing out and so we had turn off the water to the entire house...on Thanksgiving and you know no home improvement store are open. We did enjoy the Cracker Barrel dinner, took too long to come to the table, but whatever, we didn't have to clean up later. So, Friday we were finally able to replace the problem valve for the icemaker! YEAH! So, then we started laying the backerboard and unfortunately didn't have enough mortar to finish the kitchen Friday night so we finished it Saturday. Last night we finally laid the tile, of course we couldn't get it all laid last night, so we will probably be doing that again tonight, but maybe not. Then we have another 24 hour waiting period after that dries before we can lay the grout and then we have another 24 hour waiting period before we can put the stuff back in the kitchen. So today we can at least access the faucet, but it will be at minimum it will be 48 days...I mean 48 hours before we can put stuff in the kitchen and I can cook again! I wasn't going to post the pictures, but I changed my mind. (in these first pictures I think the boys were high on fumes from the backerboard.