Operation Green Thumb - Take 1

We are putting in raised beds in our garden this year.

Each one is 10 feet by 3 feet.

They are built out of decking lumber and reinforced. (This one is currently upside down.)

We are putting in 10 of them which will make our garden more manageable.

Clare can't wait to get started planting.

Neither can we.

Almost a year...

It has been a busy year for us. We have been loving our new house. We haven't done a ton of things, but we have added pictures to the walls, curtains over most windows, and a few other small touches. We are working to put the finishing touches on the master bedroom (we have a new bedroom set, a nice reading couch, new lamps, and our curtains). We've partially finished the prayer room: laying carpet, hanging some pictures and shelves, etc. It is hard to believe that a year ago we were painting...

Now that spring is upon (and our little addition is soon to arrive) we are working on some outdoor projects. We hope to post soon with news of our revamped garden, our retaining walls, and a brand new lawn. However, we will be very busy over the next few weeks, so forgive us if we are late with posting them.

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.