Break

I am visiting my parent's home in Michigan now.  It is a wonderful, much needed break.  The fresh air and water takes my breath away every time.  I just love it so.

Target practice with grandpa's pellet guns and bike rides to the park.

My blog hasn't met Asher yet.  He's such a sweetie.  Sometime I'll go back and fill in all of his story.  Asher Steven is 6 months old now and is an absolute delight.  He's the apple of everyone's eye around here.

His eyes are soo blue.  Such a contrast to Judah's dark brown ones.  I love all the colors. Judah is 4 now.  Age 4 means that he's a big kid-no more sucking the thumb.  Ratz.   He's doing great with it, though. 

Joshies is 8 already.  He's a hoot.  Micah is getting sooo big.  He's 10 now and is growing up soo fast. 

And Sophia, my little girl, is 12 this summer.  Unbelievable.

I'm blessed.  So thankful for mom and dad to let me come and relax and blog once again.

Leaps Behind

I guess I don't need to say how crazy life has been- hence the last post being in August.  I'll try to recap these last several months.

September 2011....

The basement's foundation is now fixed so, although still unfinished, our things can finally be moved back downstairs.  Mess, mess, and more mess.  But kids are having a fun time.  Here Josh is making some shelves out of drywall scraps.

Such determination.

Our remodeling has turned into a large can of worms.  For example, we would take off the carpet to see the subflooring needed replacing.  This month we tore into the kitchen.  I should have taken a good 'before' picture.  You can sort of see the kitchen in the background here.

We wanted to extend the kitchen towards the family room for a little extra space.  Here are some demolition pictures.  

The cupboards are down, now it's time for the ceiling to come down...

Because of my pregnant state, we had a teenager from church helped us.  So thankful for Matt!  What a job.  He tore down all the ceiling.  Mess. Mess. Mess.

I just shivered remembering soon after the ceiling was down, Sophia pulled a mouse sketeton from my hair.  Anyone who knows me well, knows that mice are my least favorite creatures.  I was in too great of shock to take a picture of that one.

For the next several weeks we replaced drywall.  We made a new place for the fridge and opened up the doorframe between the dining room and kitchen.  When we first moved here, every room had doors.  The dining room, kitchen, even hallways.  We took the doors off right away, but have always wanted to open up the area even more.

Now I had to be creative and cook without a kitchen.