Painted Windows

I painted the 2 back windows yesterday with acrylic paints. I liked the look so I painted the one side window in our room. We liked it so much I'm going to paint all the windows!

I like how this turned out! I normally can't draw all!

The other window says TO BVJ. BVJ is a huge country music festival that our family attends every year!

Having a Good Time

We`re currently parked near Athabasca and we`re having fun here! Not much work is being done on the bus. TheMan and his brother are working on totally redoing his brother`s 5th wheel holiday trailer.Once his trailer is done then we will work on finishing the bus!
We did manage to salvage a furnace from a holiday trailer, a sink, and a bunch of other things that will work in the bus. So it was to our advantage to do this!
We went swimming in Athabasca yesterday. I think the pool is allowing the Slave Lake evacuees to swim for free because they asked if we were from Slave Lake when we went yesterday. It is really sad to listen to people talk in town. Alot of them didn`t have insurance and they lost everything. One woman was saying if their cat lived he would be very hungry when they got back there. I almost cried hearing the anguish in her voice.
I`m heading to Edmonton tomorrow to get the baby his passport! I`m hoping to be there first thing in the morning to get it done with early! I have a couple other things to do in the city as well. We leave for a week in a month! I can`t wait! I`m going alone with him but I think it will be great anyway!

The Bus Being Built Inside!

Here are some pictures from the building of the bus! It still needs some finishing touches! 

It's livable tho!

Building the back walls for our bedroom. You can see one part of the couch! I love the couch so much!

The couch (the part that pulls out into a bed is where my daughter is sitting). The counters. TheMan has since built me drawers on the near right side!

The couch before it was installed securely!

The couch pulled out into a bed. There is storage underneath which I love!

Almost done. We have tons of storage under our bed in the back. TheMan is building me cupboards under the counter as we speak. Once everything is built I have white paint to paint it all. `We still have to install the furnace that we got! It`s good for now tho!

Sub Floor is DONE!!!

Yesterday my Dad and TheMan put in the sub floor for the bus. We decided what to do for a floor plan. We chalked it out on the floor. It is going to look so great!

On Monday I have to go pick up the couch for the bus. We have some cabinetry that my Dad had here. We have decided to make the bunk beds so that the bottom is stationary and the top bunk flips down to make another sofa. It is going to work out great!

Pictures in a day or so. My MS is getting the best of me right now! I have really bad vertigo and can't do alot at the moment. Meds are my friend right now!

All Ready To Go!

We're all ready to go for tomorrow morning! We just have to stop at the office and get an in transit sticker for the van. We're getting it insured in Alberta because we need to get an out of province inspection to get it done here and it will cost alot to get this $400 van on the road. TheMan's Dad is going to be nice enough to insure the van for us for 6 months. After that one stop we are off and flying! We will be on the road for 9 hours to start with to make it to my Dad's place to work on the bus!

This is the packed and ready to go bus. The view towards the back of the bus. The only thing left to do is to put another big blue bin like the one in the picture filled with dog food. 

 This is the view toward the front of the bus. There isn't much in the front of the bus there is a little! The hose that you see in the picture is going to be removed once we get there. It is a heater hose that we are taking out of the bus permanantly.

I had a great post with tons of pictures of the animals and everything but it is lost in cyber space. So I'm only adding these two pictures now. Hopefully tomorrow morning we can get a shot with everyone including the 3 kids, 3 dogs, cat, TheMan and I. At the very least everone except me in the shot! Just before we leave on the road! I can't wait to start posting pictures of the renovations as they are being done! I think my camera might need to be replaced after this adventure!

What a Mess!

My house looks like such a mess. We are trying to pack and clean at the same time...didn't work out so well. Didn't help that the baby was super clingy yesterday and didn't want to be put down for nothing! We got alot done it just doesn't LOOK like we did! The living room is currently heaped with stuff to go out to the bus.

TheMan didn't get home until 7pm last night. We were both tired because the night before neither one of us got much sleep. So we ate supper and went to bed early! Although we did go out to the bus and organize all the stuff that was already out there. We also loaded the stuff from the garage that had to. His tile working tools have to come with us if I want a tile floor in the bus!

I was giggling last night because TheMan came in the house and wanted to know what the pile of stuff was. I told him it was all stuff that we needed on the bus. He made a comment that I was going to fill the bus to the top with crap. Then we went into the garage and he is saying "we need this, I need that" It was funny because my stuff from the house is crap but his stuff from the garage isn't! I just laughed!

TheMan should be home early this afternoon. The kids and I are going to finish packing stuff up and the load it into the bus. Once everything is loaded into the bus then we can finish cleaning up the house.

I'm so worried about the mice getting at our mattress! I'm not sure what to do about it. I was thinking of putting moth balls all over it but then I worry that our bed will smell bad when we get back! I am going to be putting out mouse/rat poison all over the house while we're gone. I HATE mice and I don't want them in my house!

I am loving the idea that the van won't be full to the nuts this time! Usually anytime we go somewhere the van is SO FULL we can barely move in there! This time the dogs and Kat will be in the bus and so will everything else! We will only have Peanut in the van with us who is my daughter's little Cavalier puppy!

When we organized the bus, we put the mattresses on the floor and then put everything else on top of that. We did that because I wanted to make the mattresses unaccessable to the dogs! I don't want the mattresses covered in dog hair!

Tomorrow is the big day! I will take pictures later of the fully ready to go bus!

Working around the baby!!!

Working around a 6 month old baby is proving to be work!! I have had to stop what I was doing to get him down for his nap! The break is nice don't get me wrong!! The older kids are helping to knock off jobs from our list of things to do!

The pile of things to go out to the bus is getting bigger all the time.It looks like alot of stuff in the bus because it is just big and empty right now. Once we have cabinets and storage spaces built in the bus it won't look like so much stuff!!!

We're taking school work and art supplies. We may not use them that much but at least we have them!

I will be taking lots of photos of the building process over the next few weeks. We found out yesterday that we have a fresh water and grey water tank waiting for us at a friend's place. They're gutting their truck top camper. TheMan will have to help gut it but that's ok! This means that I can have a working sink this summer!!

Stay tuned for more photos of the bus becoming our home!! Especially stay tuned for when we get our ball pit for the kids!!! They are super excited about the loft and ball pit!!