Moving

Be on the look out! This blog is moving soon!

Well we are not moving, just the blog.

Sidewalk

Our house is kinda in the woods. Meaning there is not a concrete driveway. The rocks have been so crushed that now when we drive up there is a whirlwind of dust surrounding our car. When it rains the water puddles up and we have to wade to the car. Our driveway is such that a paving company left a flyer at our house! HAHA! You know it's bad when that happens! So anyway, Brent corrected one problem by building the sidewalk pictured below. It's very nice! I like it!





PS: if you noticed the camo in the back ground - it's Brent's water balloon gun he built! It's awesome!

Face-lift

I decided while I posted it blog that it was time for a face lift! I have also got to come up with a new name for this blog. Our Journey doesn't fit anymore. So, if you have any ideas, please share.

Thanks!

Random thought of the day: John Wayne was born in 1907. How wierd is that?

6 Words

A few weeks ago I mentioned that I went to a Beth Moore conference in March with Julie, Amy, and Jill. We really had a great time. At the beginning of the conference Beth referenced a blog that her daughter, Melissa, had written on the Beth Moore blog, Living Proof, a few weeks prior to the conference. Melissa's post is called Sum Up Your Life In Six Words. Click Here to see the post.

So, for the conference all of Beth's points were done in the Six Word Summary style given in the blog. She challenged us to sum up our life in six words - no more and no less - and then at the end of the conference to do sum up why the Lord brought you to the conference in 6 words.
One that I remember from the conference that one lady said is: "Came in Pieces, Going Home Whole." Isn't that great?!

At the time I could not think of anything. Occasionally, I am not very good at coming up with things on the spur of the moment and that conference was one of those times. I hate it when the speaker gives you an assignment and you can't come up with anything. So I have been pondering this thought for the past few weeks, pretty much determined to come up with something. I mean 6 words, how hard can it be!! My life in 6 words. Hmmm......
Well last week I finally came up with the answer! But in all honesty it truly is not a summerization of my life, but rather of how I feel at this moment in time.

What I came up with was: I am a toy without batteries. My friend, Bashan, words it for me as: I am a toy without wires.

I don't know how much you are supposed to share of yourself on blogs b/c when you blog you might as well open your home to the entire world, you never know who is reading, so I only try to share things that I would tell or share with anyone. I finally decided that this was okay to share, because I would be interested to know how YOU would sum up your life at this moment in time in 6 words. If you need help check out Melissa's post on the Living Proof Blog.

Let me know what you come up with!
Leave a comment or two. :)

Have fun!

At Last: COLOR!

It's the moment you've all been waiting for!!! Our walls with color! Hope you like it!

Living Room - someday a new stair rail!

Kitchen - the red is going to be gone though and there is a purple accent wall - see above.

Sunroom

Our room - it's grey (and sink for our bathroom)

Upstairs bedroom 1 - I love the brown!

Upstairs bedroom 2

Not pictured are the bathrooms - but they are a nice tan color.

We have a new countertop in the kitchen now that looks amazing and soon there will be a backsplash where the red is - although the red looks good with the yellow.

Also - there is carpet in the upstairs bedrooms and our bedroom and the living room and hallways now have hardwood. We hope to finish the hardwood this week!

Someday I will post new pictures and maybe there will be some funiture in the house!

I've bought a few new items to decorate with and Brent and I bought a new couch for the sunroom, along with a set of bistro table and two chairs for the sunroom. We also got a new chair to go in the living room - all we have is a couch!

Extreme Home Makeover: Colee Edition!

Extreme Home Makeover: Colee Edition has begun! And trust me, there is a lot of work to be done!! Below: this is the very first picture taken in November. The former owners still had most of their belongings here. First - all the wall paper had come down. A bit of flooring had to come up. The door and window caseings had to come down. We had to find a painter and people to lay tile and put down hardwood. So by now all the wallpaper is down, we found a painter - he started Tuesday, we have a guy putting crown molding up! MJ, Michael B., Brent and Brent's dad - Greg laid the tile. My dad, Brent, and Brett are going to lay the hardwood, and a pro is going to put the carpet in the 2 rooms upstairs. Whew!

This is the back - an in-ground pool used to be here,

but Brent wants to put in a koi pond!

Yes, we are offically rednecks! Toilet in the front yard!! HAHA!

(it WILL be gone soon)

Kitchen Living Room, Upstairs rooms and part of kitchen

A new stair rail is on the way!!

Living Room and great ceiling Barksdale loves laying tile! HA!

Newly tiled sunroom and laundry....Brent laying tile in the master bath! Isn't he cute!

So he and his dad did this bathroom in 20 degree weather -

no joke it was 8 degrees the next night!

(Still a cutie!)

Okay, below is the ceiling in the laundry room.....are you kidding me? what??

I gave up asking questions after we discovered that DUCT TAPE was used to seal some of the sheet rock together!!!! Yeah.

We are so excited about this house! I can't wait till the color is on the walls!! We have great plans for this house. The Lord has really blessed us greatly!

So come stay with us sometime!