When I first bought this website in January of 2008 we had just started renovations on our bathroom – and we LOVE the result!

The time has come for more renovations!

A few weeks ago the ceiling in our entry room fell apart – yes we have a VERY old house. A few of the tiles fell down and there are lots of little bumps and sags all along the room. Our friend Matt came over yesterday to check out the damage and give us an estimate. Once the ceiling is in we will paint the walls – which right now are paneling – UGH!

We also need the steps to our upstairs level torn out and redone.

We have two bedrooms in our house – right now we use the smaller, cedar bedroom and the long, paneled bedroom serves as our “junk” storage. We are going to have Matt add a walk-in closet to the long room and then paint the paneling.

We still have a long, long list – if you can’t tell – I hate home repairs.

Right now our kitchen sink is frozen on the draining end – and has been for 5 days!

We need a new higher counter, maybe a dishwasher, a new faucet, and something done with the floor.

We need to have all the hardwood refinished, tear off the front porch and switch entries, change out windows, new siding, and change the driveway around.

I will try to remember to post pictures as we go!

My friend Mike Murray is an AMAZING artist!

I took a photo of Ella nearly two years ago that I adore – and wanted Mike to create a painting of the photo. We talked about it and he wanted to try a fabric canvas instead of a traditional painting. He was – and is – busy with Chiropractic school and didn’t have time to devote to the project immediately – I told him I didn’t have a deadline.

He dropped off his creation this weekend – about a year and a few months after we first talked – and it was WELL WORTH THE WAIT!

The photo of Ella on the L and the wonderful “painting” on the R.

I took it down to show Amy and Jim – and Ella had to get her picture with it!

*A* is on the L with “her Ella and *M* on the R with “her” Ella!

Thanks again Mike – it is AMAZING and completely blew past my expectations!

“Dwight Schrute: I’ll do your laundry for a month. For a year!!

Michael Scott: I have a laundry machine!!”

The Office – Season 3 – Episode 3 – The Coup

I would like to inform everyone that I now have a laudry machine.

Meet our dryer.

Meet our washer.

Together they are quite the laundry machine.

The bathroom pics I posted the other day were not exactly the finished project.

Matt has to stop by and do a quick run-down today, but other than that, here you go …

Once again, we LOVE it !!!

No, not Project Runway. Our bathroom is now finished!

Here are some “in transition” pictures …

We moved back in last night and spent the first morning with our new bathroom. Jared and I both love it so much!

If you’d like to stop by and see our new addition, please do.

 We appreciate the hard work of Matt and his guys and we recommend them to anyone.

The washer/dryer should be done tonight and the project will be complete!

We dropped one more load off for Jared’s mom to do while we wait for our wash. We thought maybe she would need time to say goodbye to nearly 3 years of our laundry.