I have to share this little neighborly story. For the past 2 weeks there's been various stages of this bathroom remodel under way - whether it was taking 14 large garbage bags out of our house at 10 pm or... Continue Reading Neighborhood watch »
Um. There is dust absolutely everywhere in my house. Mopping the floors? I can handle doing that 2 to 3 times a day to keep my sanity. Dusting? You may not know this about me, but the reason we don't... Continue Reading oh man »
The story of our main floor bathroom is a long one. One that has been 3 years in the telling, making and crying about. Where shall I start? Well, we bought our house in Sept of 2004. It was a... Continue Reading The story of our bathroom saga »
The bathroom is getting closer to completion - at least it looks like a room in a house now and not something out of an abandoned house that was condemned. We're super excited. The details of the small leak in... Continue Reading More progress »
Who's surprised to see me up and writing this early??? Anyone? Huh?? I AM! For the past few mornings I've been setting Aaron's alarm and waking up before Jessica to get ready for the day and get everything in order... Continue Reading A work in progress »
I used to sell houses. I was in real estate with my dad for about 2 years, give or take. I do miss it, being in the work force - but more than anything I miss seeing inside all kinds... Continue Reading House »
I unveiled the surprise to Aaron today about his birthday/Christmas gift. It's been months in the planning ... and it's also for the entire family, but his holiday was a good one to use as a jumping off point. We're... Continue Reading Unveiling the surprise! »
We're making progress on the shower! And by "we" I mean I'm making sure Jessica stays upstairs while our contractor works ever-so-efficiently all by his lonesome. As of right now the walls are tiled and edged and he's working on... Continue Reading Home Improvement: Shower »
So because of the insurance situation in this house we're not gutting the main floor bathroom to redo it. We've been trying to do this for the past 2 years and for some reason something else always comes up. Well,... Continue Reading Bathroom woes »
We want to sell our house. Badly. We never intended to stay here longer than this past summer and if it were up to us we probably would have sold last year. But ... the market took a crap. We... Continue Reading Itch to move »
Today was a very busy one here - I took my sweet time waking up so as to not feel like hurling ... then we started off running errands to buy a printer (finally), get the necessary items for tiling... Continue Reading Tiling the mud room »
Well it only took us a total of 4 hours to get our stuff together and get down to the Pansy Dollar sale at a local landscaping garden center, but it was so worth it. We had to go to... Continue Reading Landscaping »
just going through some old photos - KITCHEN: BEFORE AFTER DINING AREA: BEFORE AFTER 1 AFTER 2... Continue Reading The fun of owning a home and raping your wallet »
When we moved here we hit the jackpot as far as a yard goes within the city limits. We're on a dead end road and even better, we're at the end of that dead end road. With woods around us.... Continue Reading Owning your own yard »
After finally putting most of our bedroom together we decided to sell our bed frame on Craigslist. It only took 3 days to sell. Rick and Megan from East Grand Rapids came by tonight to take it home with them... Continue Reading Cadbury Roses »
We were busy today ... here's proof. My dad and step mom, brother-in-law, Aaron and myself along with the help of our neighbor Don tackled the trenches of our root system some people call The Back Yard.... Continue Reading landscaping 2006 »
What was supposed to be a 20 minute project turned into an hour and a head ache. I finally hung the framed alphabet in Jessica's bedroom. You'd think there's only supposed to be 26 holes in the PLASTER walls then,... Continue Reading But it looks pretty »
We're replacing the windows in our entry/mud room today - or rather, our trusty contractor is doing so for us. Here is what the windows used to look like, they're called Jealousy Windows. These are the new ones, and BEHOLD... Continue Reading New Windows »