Painting, lights, tile and a birthday!

Grandma E., daddy's mother, with Sarah and Lydia waiting for the party to begin.

Praying for Taylor our special 16 year old!!!

A real coon skin hat just like Benjamin's

Pretty smiles!

Mr. Hughes was kind enough to come over and help begin to lay the tile. He has done a lot of it and was a great help, thank you Mr. Hughes!!

Dad and Mom's room

Ben handing dad the tiles

Mr. Hughes and Dad deciding where to start the tile.

All the tiles that don't need cut are done in the master bath! Yeehaw!

Dad working on outlets in the mudroom. Thank you Y. for your incredible help, you have been quite the blessing!!!!

Do you see the canned lights on in the kitchen area????

The first of our belongings in the attic, just the beginning!

Heather learning to put in an outlet, she did 14 of them today, yea Heather!!!!

The wood flooring needs to have the ends opened so the air can get in and acclimate the wood to the room. Ben and I did most of it ourselves! That was a big job!

Mom took this of me opening the box ends! We were almost done at this point and boy were we cold and tired!

Then I saw Benjamin doing this!!!! LOL! He was opening the ends of some boxes that were under others. He was not posed!

LOOK!!! We have light in the powder room!

Taylor hooking up an outlet

Grandpa worked long and hard today hooking up the furnaces. He made lots of noise banging and pounding all day!!!

Can you believe he is 76? Amazing guy!!!

More of his beautiful handiwork!!!

Lights in the girl's bathroom.

We are so excited at the progress in the past several weeks and anticipate much more to come. We are thanking God daily for our permanent power and Mr. U. who was used of God to help us get it. We are just amazed at how God works and so very thankful!!

Of Painting, Christmas preparations and other things!

Keslie and the kids were making snowflakes when Keslie decided to find some patterns online! She found this lovely 3D pattern and her and the kids made lots to make our home more festive!

Ta-da!

Oh, pretty!

Heather, Lydia and Taylor having some fun time at the house.

Mom and some of her girls!

More of her girls! I guess there is just one more in this picture than the last!

Mrs. L brought her daughter to visit with us while we worked and she went and visited with Mom and Heather while they painted! It's more fun to chat while working!

The wood stove was full of this fire flurry after someone put in a piece of wood with paint on it. It was amazing to see!

The pantry is done!!!!!!!

Grandpa and Taylor setting doors! We LOVE our doors! They are so old fashioned!

Grandpa putting in shims, he is so precise and meticulous, we are so thankful for him!

This is our room and the picture is taken when it was still light outside. It brightens in the day and warms in the evening! I love it!

This is our poor pitiful tree. Since we are packing to move by the end of this month we decided we couldn't get a tree. There just wasn't time to get it up and then take it down. Well, the kids were SO sad so they went into our backyard and found this poor little thing! It was so sparse that they had to find extra branches to put behind it to make it even look like a Christmas tree!

But, they decided to look elsewhere. This one was found at the new house and it looks much better gracing our familyroom than the first little tree!

Benjamin had a gift card for a guy store so I was able to take him there the other day and he found this great hat and....

A badge like his brother's!

Looking to future!

Paint buckets! And MOORE paint buckets! LOL!

Last night I went to help Dad lay Hardie board and I was able to see and take pictures of the dining and kitchen painted this lovely gold color.

Looking down the hall that leads to Grandpa's and Grandma's and to the left is part of the kitchen.

The Entry! Mom loved the color so much after painting the mudroom and laundry room that she decided to use it in the entry! The pictures don't really show the exact color, but...

They did it WAY up there! Yikes!


We have three rooms left to paint and then Grandpa and Grandma's house to do! It's getting close! Yippy!

More painting!

We have had a busy weekend with all of our painting! I personally haven't done any but I have held down the home front and ran to the paint store twice! The painter people, aka Dad, Taylor, Mom and Heather, have worked ever so hard spraying, rolling and brushing. Everyone comes home at night all white from spraying primer and ceiling color and aching from their abnormal postures while painting!

Heather and mom were painting in the main bathroom when I got to the house last night. I love the color!

Mom is very happy to be finally painting because that means moving soon!

Heather and I!

Heather painted this sign on the wall in the bathroom! LOL!

Sarah kind of showing our bedroom color! It really doesn't look just like that because it is more yellow than it lookes here. It was dark ourside when this was taken. I'll try to get some better pictures in the daylight! Oh! This is so fun!