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| Laundry/Mud room floor |
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| Master Bath floor |
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| Boys bathroom |
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| Railing on the garage landing |
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| Stair railing and trim and doors (which yours truly stained, den helped a bit, and gina too) |
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| Have I mentioned how hard Den and others are working for us? I'm so thankful! |
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| Kitchen before counter tops |
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| Kitchen after counter tops. I LOVE them. |
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| Counter close up. |
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| And some extra cuteness for good measure. |
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| 1st day of Preschool! |
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| Swing! |
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| Do not be deceived by this sweet spaghetti covered face. He has been a royal stinker. (some of the time) |
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| Celebrated mom in law Donna's birthday. Frogmore feast at Dave and Gina's. Four generations present. Thankful for this woman and that she is willing to let us crash their pad while we finish our house! |
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| Front doors, partially installed kitchen, hickory flooring in great room and our ugly old fridge to keep it real. |
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| The brothers working hard to make me happy. |
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| My boy. He lost another tooth! When does this stop? |
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| A huge thanks to these guys! Dan, brother in law Dave and my man Dennis. Here they are standing in the kitchen with the dining room behind them. |
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| Coming in the front door. |
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| Powder room. |
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| Part of the hallway that is between living area and laundry room. The laundry area will not be hard wood. |
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| Have I mentioned that we are officially homeschoolers? I received my approval letter from the district a couple days ago. We are just doing a few things here and there to get their juices flowing again, before we dive into it once we move in. Some math and grammar review and Eden is starting to learn cursive. Why homeschooling? I'll tell you later. I need to go to bed. Also you may or may not notice that this is not our table. Jesse's lungs don't agree with our current home. So this is the second time that we've been able to stay at someone's place while they are on vacation. This week it's Den's sister at the beach. Next week another dear friend offered her home while they also go to the beach. I've been calling it our stay-cations. It is nice that we are close enough to home to run back and get a few things done in the morning and be able to come back and have naps, dinner and bedtime in central AC. AND use their wifi...that we do NOT have a home. Thus my more frequent blog posts. Everybody wins. |
That's how I feel. The past few summers we have fallen into a rhythm
that suits us, but this summer it just ain't happening. We've been back
and forth working on the house and....well that's basically it. It's a
means to a beautiful end, or shall we say new beginning? Yet it's still a
bit rough. So I'm trying to focus on the bright spots and enjoy my
kiddos when we are home. |
| Staining baseboards.. |
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| Sorting flooring.. |
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| House and pet sitting... |
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| enjoying aunt Gina's big bathtub... |
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| with our favorite people... |
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| doggie photo shoot... |
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| because they love their puppies... |
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| and sophie is getting up there....(she actually shares a birthday w/ Jesse...she's 11 too!) |
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| We've been doing a lot of going back and forth lately. Back and forth from Den's parents place so we can work on our place. Painting duty has officially begun for me. I get to scoot across the field in this sweet ride while the kids stay behind and play with kitties and cousins. |
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| On my first day of painting the older kids helped paint the garage. Yesterday I let Van help for a tiny bit with some dining room touch up and Den is going to great heights to reach the awkward angles. har har har... But seriously. I UNDERESTIMATED how much time it takes to paint. The cutting in or edging along the ceiling takes 4-EVER! I was in near tears as I drove down Tuesday morning. But when I arrived my angel sister in law Gina said that she was going to help me! Tears of joy. Then that evening I got two more phone calls from painting fairies. So Wednesday I had a helper and it looks like I might have one Thursday or Friday. The Lord really did hear my cries. |
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| I was able to show the kids their painted rooms yesterday. Jesse's still needs a bit of touch up, but nothing he would notice. His color is called English Saddle. aka brown. |
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| It was one of those times when she didn't feel like sharing her opinion. Which means she probably likes it. On the left is her bedroom in Forgotten Promise (what? turquoise.) On the right is the PINK (should have gone lighter, this is the lesson I'm learning when choosing colors) bathroom or Daddy's Little Girl. I want the color naming job. I couldn't do worse. |
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| Some of us sweat and paint in the humidity and some of us lounge in the pool. Beck prefers to swim in the nude. |
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| When we are home the older two have been camping out on our floor because we have an AC window unit and for some reason Jesse wakes up wheezing in his room. Reason #243 why we need to finish our house. I digress. So I'm checking my internet junk before I climb into bed and Eden asks me to turn around. She has created clothes /accessories for all her stuffed animals that she sleeps with. Love that girl. |
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| Voluntary snuggles caught on film. |
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| Landing from a leap |
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| Good friends |
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| Pretending they found dinosaur bones (they were bovine) |
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| Mother's Day reminder of why we don't do many group shots. |
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| Checking out the neighbors equipment. |
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| Grandpa Jim |
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| My mom brought mini kites. |
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| The neighbors got a pig. |
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| Sketch tips from Grandpa Jim |
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| Browsing Costco coupons with Grandma. |
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| Inspecting the doors |
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| Stairs to Eden's room. |
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| Almost caught a moth. |
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| Mom, Beck, Grandpa |
