Before & After...

Mr Wonderful (Daddy Bean) has been busy on a wonderful project Mommy set out to do... but quickly pushed this project onto Daddy.  I found this at a garage sale and Mr. Bean sanded and refinished this table to match our house.  It turned out perfect and he did a great job.  

Before

After

However - never again - will I get something that takes so much man hours...lol.  I LOVE LOVE how it turned out and I will have lots of memories of all the time it took.  But Sanding and staining takes a lot longer then our other projects that we just painted :o)  Thanks Daddy! 

House Update...

Almost done with Kora's room....  

We used lots of Uppercase Living ...

need I say more... lol....

Papa made the Baltics this adorable book shelf

They are letting us borrow it for a while

We re-painted it and Kora LOVES it!

This is a picture of our Bathroom... 

That is all that is exciting going on right now with the Gardner's. 

We slowly work on the house and it seems likes the weeks fly by.

New House Update..... 1

So a much needed house update is on the way....

Since I am so behind on Blogging... I figured I should just stop updates on events and update on the house....

So here we go...

When you walk in the front door....

 this is what you will see...

 Our Dinning Area and Family Room to the right...
yes new furniture is on the way ;O)

 This is a picture taken from the family room looking into the kitchen...

 Another family room shot...

 This is looking into our kitchen from the dining area....

 This is looking into our Kitchen from our mud-room....

 My favorite part of my kitchen.... 

and... the wall of storage.....

 which I LOVE!!!  Since I collect Plates and Bowls as a Hobby.  This was much needed storage.  I think the un-packers said I had enough plates to use a different plate everyday... 

also I have a junk cabinet that I do paper work in or keep random items and at the end of the day... I love to just pull out the door and shut my junk in :o)

House - Update...

It's been fun watching the progress of our house.  Things are starting to come together and we can't wait to see it finished.  Here is a pictures before they painted.  Does anyone want to guess the colors we used ...

Kora will tell you .. Purple and Green....

 This is looking into our kitchen and to the left is the steps down and main entry.  The Yellow room in the back is laundry. 

 Here's from standing in our kitchen looking into the family room. 

Kora loves to show people her house.  She is looking forward in using her tubby and can't figure out how to put the water in it.  

House Update...

Our House is coming along great... for how cold it has been outside!

The back of the house..

 The front of the house - garage

 We had a whole crew of guys that came out to help us roof last Friday (NEW YEARS EVE)

Tom H & Ryan

Tom T, Curt, Doug, Nate, Sandor, Matt, Milan on the roof

JP was working all over and Uncle Dale was on the ground cutting and delivering singles to the guys on top.  They got most of the roof done - they were about 4 bundles shy of finishing in ONE DAY!  FRONT AND BACK of the ROOF!  We were so excited and BLESSED to have wonderful weather and NO got hurt!

 Now they are putting in the windows (back of house)

 Here is JP working on the windows today.



NEW HOUSE WEEK # 1

So, we had one full week of absolutely beautiful weather.  We had plenty of hard workers and the outcome was far greater than we could have ever imagined.  We now have a basement structure that is nearly ready for beams and framing.  We have a septic field that is truly a blessing.  The weather allowed us to get the septic field in so we do not have to wait until spring.  Now we have our foundation and lots more decisions to make.  Windows, Doors, Colors, Etc.  We would like to thank all of those who had a part in making all this happen and especially thank God for giving us such a good jump start to this major project.

Day 2 - New House

Kora and I stopped by the house this morning to take more pictures.  We were very excited to see some men preparing the basement for the foundation of house!  I commented on how they had a great week to work - since the weather is to be so nice this week.  They said "well you must have picked a good week to start"  I said "we didn't pick the week... but we are SOO THANKFUL to have nice weather!"

 Very excited that Zollinger's found some big rocks

while they were digging the basement!  YA!!!



The House - DIG!!!

On Monday, November 8th 2010 - they started digging our new house...

I will try not to update about this every day...

but we are very excited to get started on our house!