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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

House Update #3

A couple of people have been asking about the house lately so I figured it was time for another update.

Brian has the hearth and bottom stones laid for our fireplace and the pillars built. (stone has to go on them yet) He is going to put the same stones from the bottom in pillars and them a beam is going to sit on top of that. We did pick out our mantel this past Saturday. Brian sister and brother-in-law just had a barn moved to their farm and we got to pick out a beam for our mantel. It looks awesome and I can't wait for it to be installed!!!


This is the ceiling. All that is needed here is the can lights to be completed and then a ceiling fan installed.


The 3 goof pots that tried to help me clean the room today. It didn't go well.


One last picture....just need some carpet (that is ordered and shipped and to be installed sometime soon!) and some outlet and light covers and hopefully then we are done!!!! I can't wait!

Just in time for the next big project...that starts next week!!!!!! Stay tuned! :)


Wednesday, August 21, 2013

A Special Day...


Yesterday Addison and I had a special day. An afternoon and evening of no babies just Addison and me! (And Grandma and Grandpa Krol, Aunt Kellie, Uncle Chuck, Landon and Brennan)  We went to the Hudsonville County Fair and even though Addison had no clue what a fair was, as soon as I told her there were rides she was excited. 

Here she is with what is the biggest rip-off in fair history.....ride tickets.


But it was sure worth every dollar!

The quads had horns!!!!!


Someone put this girl on a parade float, she has "the wave" down pat!



Then we had to ride on the cars!


And a little bit of her daddy came out in her as she had to lean over the side and check out the car.



After that we went and got some dinner. And we just had enough time to ride one more ride before going to the nights main event. 

Yes, I rode on the flying elephants....and this ride by far was her favorite.





Then we got to watch the off road demo derby. Landon thought it was awesome!!!! 


Addison loved it too!


Oooo!!!! Big crash





We had a great time on our special day, on the ride back to our house last night Addison kept doing the sleepy ramble....

Momma, I had so much fun. I got to ride on the cars....and the flying elephants and then we saw the car go BANG. 

Momma???

Yes Addison.

Can you go sleepers?

No Addison Momma needs to drive home but if you want you can go sleepers 

Silence for a few minutes

Ok Momma. Will you take me inside my beach house so I don't have to sleep in the Mini??

Yes Addison go sleepers.

No more words were spoken in the backseat.... She had passed out!

Friday, August 16, 2013

TIMBERRRRR!!!!!!!

See this tree...it's HUGE!!!!! And was in the way of our new garage.

So this was Monday, in the rain I went outside and took one last picture of the tree before we had it removed.



But Monday it rained all morning, so they didn't get to cut it down until yesterday.


It was so much fun to watch them take it down. Our neighbor's grand kids came over to watch it too!


Lowering a branch.


Almost done, and after one final cut, they tied it to the truck and pulled it down!


Then today I sent the kids outside to get their picture with the tree before it gets crated away this weekend.



Anyone want to guess how old it is????


As best as I could count, I got 65!!! And some of the rings in the tree were an inch thick!