I have been in the mood to sew the last 6 months or so and have had a lot of fun with it. Finished two quilts like this for Morgan and Maddie's bedroom (with a lot of help from my wonderful mother-in-law) and we are now just waiting for the furniture to make it out of Ryan's shop into the bedroom to put it all together!

Now I am working on this one for Ashlyn's bedroom and because of that I am now trying to convince myself to repaint her room (we painted it about two months ago when we finished it) so that it all comes together better. I pulled all of Ashlyn's furniture out of storage yesterday and hopefully will have her room ready to go by the end of the weekend!! I can't tell you how excited I am to have a couple of rooms in my house that are decorated!!!

Need I Say More....

Maddie Sue

There is nothing much better than a big empty room with brand new carpet!

Look at my beautiful new carpet.... oh yeah - it didn't happen today! They say tomorrow, I have to be patient and nice because I know Ryan has done the same to others - get a little behind schedule and have to put someone off. In the mean time Morgan convinced me to go get another box of her books out of storage and she has been arranging her books for the past couple hours. I love that she loves to read.

A New Project

For those of you who know the house this is standing at the back door looking straight the bottom would be the basement and the top would be the small bedroom upstairs - and yes there is a huge hole in floor - we had to rebuild the stairs so the head room had to be cut out of the stairs so we could still walk up and down. And yes those are my two new wall ovens that will go in my new kitchen - found them on a great deal we could pass up so they are just hanging out until the kitchen is ready to go in!

Ryan painting the bedroom closet in the basement. Carpet is going in tomorrow...Yeah!!! Oh is it Sunday - shoot....

We were in desperate need of some sun so we escaped to San Diego for the long President's Day weekend - it was a wonderful 3 days sitting on the beach and getting a little bit of color back into our skin. I don't think the girls came inside other than to sleep the entire time we were there and Maddie kept saying, "Mom, I don't even have to put my shoes on to go outside!" A much needed break!

Remodeling can get frustrating and overwhelming at times and I find myself trying to remember why we take on these projects - so I have decided that I need to do something to remind myself how far we have come and that it really is worth it in the end so here I go.... I am going to take a picture each day, post it, and document what has happened on the house that day. Somedays it may not be much, and others will be much more interesting, but hopefully at the end of this I will have a record of what we have done and realize it wasn't really that bad! We love this house and the chance to live on the farm (Ryan's dad's farm) and are excited to live here forever so it will be fun to have this record of how we got here! So here goes....