DeMoLiTiOn!

 The Washing Machine overflowed for two hours on Sept. 23, 2010.  Hour by hour the water damage got worse and worse until almost every room in the down stairs was effected.  I think I got my first gray hair from this experience!

 What used to be our living room and Office.  The kids thought it was great to jump on the puffed up carpets.  Serv Pro tried to save the carpets by pulling out the padding and blowing under to dry the sub floor and carpets out.

 Preslee's room was effected the most.  Everything had to come out of there.  Talk about traumatic for a 10 year old! 

 After about four days of trying to dry out the bathrooms, the tile had to be ripped out.  Talk about a dirty nasty job.  The guys who did it were sweating like dirty pigs when they were done!

 After Dustin got home from his hunting trip, having no idea what had happened while he was gone, he got to work tearing out the rest of everything so he could get started on restoring our home.  The only good thing about not having my husband home when this stinky stuff happened is that I made all the decisions!

 

 This was our dining room table for a few weeks while we were restoring.  I did most of my cooking on a skillet my Mother in Law loaned me, and learned many new amazing uses for a rice cooker.  I am not a fan NASTY microwave food so I still tried tried to cook for my family as much as possible.

 Deacon was Dustin's right hand man in this.  Here they are prepping the floor for WOOD!

When you don't have any furniture to jump on a big pile of boxes will do just fine!  Stay tuned for pictures of our new and improved house!!!

She's BAAAACCCKKK!

Back to Blogging!

Lookin' good for Easter!

A Big Thank You to My Mom who made the girls their adorable Easter dresses and for getting my boys these new shirts and ties.  Strong Man really wants Grandma to make him a suit one day, but these shirts and ties will have to do. 

Our first picture with our new computer.  I know very exciting!

Family Update!

Well I don't even know if anyone reads this anymore, but it is here!  We are doing great.  Nothing exciting happening here!  Just living and breathing pretty much.  But life is GOOD!

Our New Dog!

This is our first family Dog, Daisy! We've been wanting a dog for a long time, but I thought I should wait until Londyn was a little older. Then we had an opportunity to adopt this amazing Labradoodle for free and we could not pass it up! These dogs sell for $1800 to $2500, and I know why.... this dog is adorable and PERFECT! Has not barked or whined, eats a handfull of food a day, and only needs to be taken out to do her business twice a day! Perfect dog, and all ours! She is in love with Preslee, but the rest of us are okay!

We should have taken more pictures..... we had hamburgers and hot dogs and so many people were there. It was a beautiful evening! Perfect for a 9/11 birthday party! Since this Little Man calls himself "domino master" he wanted a domino party. Kind of hard to incorporate the theme into a children's birthday party, but we tried.

The favorite toy of the children, mom's least favorite, only because I have to listen to power tools first thing in the morning!

Deacorating our Pinata bags. The got polka dots to make their own domino bag.....

Sitting inside the protective circle. Great strategy for not getting anyones head knocked off.

Didn't make this one. I was going to, but Little man saw this one at Winco and I relented.

I did make the domino cake!

The extra dominos were Preslee's touch...... much to my surprise.