Moving

For many of the followers of this blog, you might have noticed an extended period with no posts. That is because we have been moving in. A few important date bullets:

• Over Memorial Day weekend, May 27th - 30th, we moved out of our apartment and into our house.
• We spent our first night here on Friday, May 27th. 
• Jeremy put up our mailbox just in time on Monday, May 30th. We had already started forwarding our mail. Nothing like waiting until the last minute.
• We finally closed on the house Thursday, June 9th.
• We've not been able to blog since moving in because until Friday, June 10th we were without Internet. After hours of getting the runaround from Windstream we decided to go with Affordable Internet Solutions. They put a small receiver on our roof which communicates with the water tower and gets us decent speed for being in the country.
• We planted our first garden at the new house on Tuesday, June 14th. 

The girls love the house and are enjoying being "country girls". They have parodied John Denver's Thank God I'm a Country Boy and enjoy singing that.

We're hoping to get some pictures posted soon to show all the fun stuff we've been doing, but we have been moving constantly since the big move (and even before that) so be patient and we'll have more fun stuff for you.

Overall, we've had a few issues, but we are loving our house and are starting to really feel at home there.

God is so good to us.

All decked out...

Despite wind, sprinkling and all out storming, Jeremy build our deck with the help of his dad and brother.

Finishing Touches - Floor 2

Guest Room:

Felicity's Room.

Bernadette and Clare's Room:

Going up the stairs:

We will post updated pics of the Master and the two bathrooms upstairs when we take updated pics. :)

Finishing Touches - Floor 1

Flooring is in and finishing touches are being applied.

Felicity can't believe it is almost done!

Kitchen with appliances in, countertop on. FYI - the black light shade won. Stay tuned for pics of that.

Dining room with chandelier and wood laminate flooring.


First floor bath.



Dinette with wood laminate flooring.

Kati and the girls enjoying the carpetted living room.

We will post updated pics of the school room and office when we take updated pics. :)

Yes, Please

Sunset pic from our front porch.

Shelter Belt

We planted 29 Spruce trees to the north and west of our house. We had to put cages around them to keep the deer from eating them like they did to our neighbors. Some day they will grow up and provide some extra privacy as well as shade and a wind break.

Decision Time

This has by far been the hardest decision we've had to make regarding the house.  In the kitchen, there is a bar area with 3 hanging lights over it.  At one time, we had picked out the perfect light covers to hang on the bottom.  However, when we went to install them, they were the wrong size.  So, we went back to the store and picked out 3 that we liked, hoping that once we installed them, the choice would be obvious.  We installed them and we still can't decide.  We are inviting you, dear readers, to be a part of our dream house by helping us decide which of these lights we should keep.  (There is a poll to the right which will be open for a week.)

Here are the three choices...

Choice black:

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Choice Red:

Up close:

Choice Swirly:

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Help us out, please!