Some may consider this a Christmas Miracle...

...I decided to sit down and update the blog.

I've been a little busy these past few weeks. But now that all the storage units are clean, rental #2 is clean and keys are turned in, Thanksgiving dinner has been eaten, Christmas pageants/recitals/concerts enjoyed, school & work parties over with, Christmas cards mailed (two days before Christmas-ouch), gifts bought, wrapped and mailed and so on and so forth - I want to relax and enjoy the Christmas Season. But the one last thing nagging on my brain is to update the blog. So here we go.

                             ~~Home Sweet Home~~

I can't seem to get a day with sun to take a good picture.
Those days are kind of far and few between here during the winter.

I'm not putting these next pictures in any order.  Some of them are after we got a few things unpacked.  Others are from while we were moving in.  I just wanted to get a few on here for my patient family that has wanted to see where we live now.



Layne's going to love that I posted a pic of him chillen.  Ha! 
These two are glued to a football game and didn't even notice
that I had the camera out.  



This is in the front foyer.

Josie on the computer in the office.

Front door.

The back hall.

Empty office.



Living room window looking out back.



Layne's love...the fire place.  He is his mother's son.  Some nights
our house is 80°.  I like it about 69°.  So.....ya.  Layne plans on building
the mantel soon.  I can't wait to see what he comes up with.  I know
it will be beautiful.

We are happy (most of us) to have our cat back.
She had to live at some friends house for six months because
we couldn't have her at the last rental.

I guess Todd didn't want to be in this picture.





So that is most of the house.  A few things/rooms missing, but you get a good idea.  We feel like we are home again, and that feels good.  We've been very blessed and we now have made some new friends & some not so good friends  during the past year through all of our experiences.  We've learned a lot about ourselves, we've surprised ourselves, and we are worn out but happy. 

We love you all. 

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!! 

We're In

Happy Halloween

Josie's pumpkin turned out really cute.

This is a really random post, but I've had some requests about our move & the house we've moved into. The people that own this house said that they were repainting when they moved back (in two years) so no worries, but I still have tried to use some of the original nails and things like that. We aren't going to be here too long, so I didn't think I wanted to get too much of our stuff unpacked. BUT, as we've moved in, I've found that I just don't have it in me to not decorate and put up a few of our things to make this house our home. Amy, the lady that owns the house, left some of her stuff and is that is great. We have a lot of the same tastes.

This is a sad picture. An empty room in our old house.


And here are a few things in the trailer we moved with. We were SHOCKED to find out how much stuff we have.

I wanted to show Geri where I put my birthday gift. (a close up of it is a few pics down) I was so sad because I got it in the mail just a couple days before we moved. So I opened it, and then I packed it. As soon as it surfaced, I found the perfect place to put it. It makes me smile, so I put it where I see it every time I walk in from the garage. Thanks again, Geri.

This is the mess we started the first night we moved in. It only got worse from there. BUT the calendar was hung first thing. I'm embarrassed how many things I was late for or just forgot about that week. I live by my calendar, that is for sure.

Just more mess.

My sweet gift from Geri.

Right after the calendar was hung I did my next most important thing...

I MADE MY BED!

And yes, my red cabinet came with us. I've had a few offers and requests, but it is still with us.

So things are getting cleaned up and it is feeling like home for us.

We have been really lucky to find a great place to live and great people to rent from.

Now on to the next project.