Making Progress!

We have made a lot of progress over the past week. Our friend Lynette came over and helped knock out the trim in the master bathroom! She was so fun and so helpful! Thanks Lynette!

Ashley came to visit this weekend. She was a tremendous help! She helped us distress the furniture in our bedroom and clean and set up the bathroom. She also helped finish the trim in the sewing room. We decided we do not like trim work! Ash was my shopping buddy and the master organizer especially for the kitchen! Her goal for the weekend was to help me get our kitchen "usable" before she left and we did just that...even though we stayed up until 3 am Saturday night. The cabinets are clean, lined, and hold our dishes!

Lance is a master caulker, mower, and painter!!!

We got FORKED!

Sometime late Sunday night some of our sneaky youth thought it would be a good idea to fork our yard. I am sure our neighbors were happy to see our yard decorated with over 700 forks and spoons! Don't worry- we will save these utensils for a youth event.

Lance and I finished the master bedroom. Yay! one room down...the rest of the house to go! We had an enjoyable night of painting trim. Neither one of us is very precise but we had fun and I think we make a great team. Jinx watched and whined the entire time. I think she wanted to help.

Whirlwind and Great Friends!"

Whew...What a weekend! We closed on the house on Thursday but didn't actually get our keys until 4:30 Friday afternoon. Friday night Lance and some friends began moving furniture and began painting our bedroom (Thanks Donald, Taylor, Jared, Justin, Mr. Moses and Colliers!).


Saturday Matthew mowed the backyard. Laura helped me clean, remove, and prime the kitchen cabinets. Kenny and Libby painted the master bath while Brandon and Zach helped me prime the cabinets. Kenny and the guys took care of the front yard before they left.


Sunday our friends the Colliers and The Johnsons returned to the painting extravaganza. The master bath, bedroom, and craft room were painted, the kitchen and den now have splashes of color. Richard and Kenny fixed our rickety dryer and made many other repairs.



Thank you to everyone who helped this weekend! We are so blessed to be surrounded by talented, generous, loving people! We love you all!

Our New House

Buying a new house has definitely been an adventure! We have had many ups and many downs during this process but we are excited that as of tomorrow we will be HOME OWNERS! YAY! We are so thankful to have had an amazing realtor (our friend Lisa) to walk with us every step of the way. We are also grateful to have supportive friends and family many of whom are far away. So we want this blog to be a way to share our lives with you! We will post pictures of the house soon as well our many other great adventures...