Framed

Staircase framed and draft stop installed. OSB board up on ceiling in preparation for the tin ceiling tiles.
Drywalled staircase.
Hallway Side.
New pantry area ready for shelves.

Leave the bathroom out of this, man!

No offense to the previous remodeler of our home but off-center and to the back of the room is not the correct placement for the vent in the bathroom. So, I had to also rip down the ceiling in the bathroom and relocate the vent/light. See for yourself.
Ahh, thank you symmetry.

2007 Belly-Off

Casey Abbott claimed her crown and reigned victorious in the 2007 bellyoff. With little effort she was able to remarkably turn her bellybutton from an innie to an outtie. Her skill required little more than a strained face to make her competitor/husband not feel bad about himself -AP Feb. 2007

Staircase or Headcase

These are more updates to our project.

We need a nursery.

Most people think we're crazy. We've had roommates ever since we've been married. We'll still have one with a child and now about 1 month before our baby is due we decide to rip a hole in a perfectly good ceiling, tear a hole in 3 perfectly good walls and install a staircase to remodel our attic space into a master suite. Well, after I started swinging a hammer and sawzalling my house, I too felt a little crazy but with the expert assistance of my dad and his sound advice to measure twice cut once, we began dismantling our east nashville Victorian. The following pictures are proof of our lunacy.

What comes before Part B?

Part- A!

Our family all came in town recently for our baby shower. We've had about all the showering our friends can stand within the last 12 months with weddings and babys so Casey and I have promised that we won't have any more showers this year. I'm sure everyone will appreciate that! Yes my hair is pink. I'm celebrating the birth of our daughter with colour.These are the nice ladies who helped us shower...

Sniff the poo. It's all the rage at parties now. The poo below was alittle too beany.

Holy Implants Batman!

No! Those aren't Manneries! In order to let my #1 lady know that I have empathy as well as sympathy I now where this man-traption around all of the time. I've outgrown all of my clothes but now I too can relate to my wife in this area. There's never a bad time to get a new man-dress. Even if you haven't outgrown the old man-dress. Don't I look mantastic? I've covered up my private area(ola)s so you can keep showing your children my blog.

Starting in Novemberish of 2006, I got the bright idea to compete in an Ironman. I had an extensive background in swimming, ran 1 marathon in the past and I commuted on my bike to and from work the summer before but that's about it. I'm doing the rock and rollman half Iron distance in Macon, Ga. June 3rd and then the Great Floridian the full Ironman this October; incidently it's 7 days after I turn 30. So hopefully my heart won't explode.

Mark Miller and I had been doing long rides together in shelby bottoms until I hit a wet wooden bridge and flew over my handle bars smashing my shin into the crossbar. 3 weeks later when i started worrying that I had broken my leg the doctors would tell me that I had a really bad hematoma of the tibia. (Bad bone bruise)

Welcome into the World Little One

Well, it's true. No form of birth control can withstand mothernature where a Sloss is concerned.

If your parents didn't provide you a diagram on how this works, I'm providing you one now. Apparently the stork is out of date and this is the new process. Good to know now. Well, introducing the newest sloss....somewhere around March 20, 2007. We're very excited to add the newest addition to our fam. It's a new lady!

I can't ever say enough about this place. You'll see us atop Half Dome for my 29th birthday ouch! We hiked 15 miles that day and then climbed the route Snake Dike shown beloy. I think it took us about 5 hours. What a way to celebrate a birthday!
This is the Grack. It's a four star crack system on glacier point apron. It's the site of quite a large and deadly rock slide some years ago but we braved the elements along with about 2 other parties and climbed this route getting caught in a rainstorm. Casey sending slab with rain running down the crack was pretty sick.


I'm seen here celebrating my very own carhart overall's. Thanks darlin.

Austin - Road to Johnson Wedding

Our great friends Heath & Julie Johnson weren't married at the time we embarked on a 13hour one way road trip to Austin. We listened to the book on cd "The old man and the sea". Wow what a listen! Riddle books, mix cd's. It was nonstop entertainment. Mark and Drew drove, this is what Casey did usually :-)

Horseshoe Tournament

We hosted the second annual (first at our house) labor day horseshoe tournament. There was also a wrestle off. John took a 7 punch to the chest (scale of 1 : 10)

Garden

To catch us up from this summer. We had a first attempt at a garden. You can see some of our crops here. Tomato, cantelope, watermelon. Not shown: lettuce, jalapenos, carrots, snap peas and herbs. Also, plenty of weeds. I think we're going to do flowers this year and tomatoes.

To Tattoo or Not to Tattoo

When you think about the permanence of tattoo's it makes for a good metaphor when compared to marriage doesn't it. Well, that is if you plan on staying married even when it isn't easy. So in the spirit of that, I put my former lady friends name on my arm. Every woman on Casey's mother's side of the family has lucille in their name somewhere and Casey dropped that family name to become Casey Abbott Sloss. (Still CAS, funny) Anyway, sorry Mom!

Honeymoon

Laying in wait of our aeroplane in Nashvegas prior to departure.

Hanging out in San Francisco. The giant heart art says it all I think...

Casey walking along Highway 1 as we head up the coast to camp.

This is a picture of me winning a bet with my new wife. The H20 was freezing but it was worth it!

Hitting up the wineries!

Casey in her own private Bed and Breakfast garden...

One of our most favorite wedding gifts was the honeymoon suite that Warren Harden created for us upon our arrival to the valley, Upper Pines I believe. We are all rendezvousing there again this October for 9 days of climbing adventures with some big sends in mind!

Double slacklining! Crazy until I broke my foot doing the jumpstart...

I can't imagine a honeymoon being more complete than the one we shared

Got Dang 'ole Hitched Man

Well, wouldn't you know that I tricked that woman into settling down! The day itself couldn't have been more perfect. The trees were blossoming, the spring rain held off and instead we had spring sunshine in the evening; even the birds chirped in celebration of my elaborate plan to make this lady mine coming to fruition!

Anyway, it was a great day. Casey looked beautiful and I just tried to sweat as little as possible :-) All of our friends came with the exception of our dear friend Warren who was on a climbing roadtrip. But not to fear, we would see him soon on our yosemite honeymoon.

This is a pic of my permanent lady friend Casey Lucille. She's trying out potential dishes for the homestead. As a point of interest, we did not get these particular bowls. Apparently the imaginary food didn't scoop out of the bowl like it should've.






As far as getting married is concerned, my grandfather said that we have a 50/50 shot at staying married, so Lance and I celebrated when we heard the news. It sounds like the odds are in my favor!

Also, I had to change my pants immediately after taking this photograph. Apparently, Lance got "too" excited about my odds.

Pre-wedding Jitters

Getting married is scary as hell and anyone who says any different is either lieing or divorced. In the weeks prior to the actual date my intestinal fortitude was certainly down with the end result beinging a spontaneous need to find a toilet anywhere in the vacinity...This one was conveniently located at Grimey's on 8th.