OUR NEWEST ADDITION!!

Hello Everyone! I bet you thought i had fallen off the Earth! Well no I just got a bit caught up in life.
This is a layout that i did the other day of our newest family addition! Her name is Abbagail and she is a puggle just like our sweet Baxter! She is about 10 months old and a rescue from the Denver Dumb Friends League!
My hubby decided that it was time to add a new princess to our family. Since Emma passed away there has been a bit of a void that needed to be filled. So the boys and I went to the "pound" and found this sweet little girl. We fell in love right away.
She has been with us now for about a month now and let me tell you....SHE IS ALOT OF WORK!!! She is lucky she is cute! According to the people who gave her up for adoption she only barks when she feels her family is being threatened! THIS IS ALL THE TIME...day and night! She has found every single hole in our fence and has spent a lot of time stuck between the two fences until someone realizes that she is back there. Luckily Baxter loves her and plays with her most of the day. They do fight when she tries to steal his "babies". She does not like our cat Keke however! They have gotten into many a fight and the last one resulted in both being bloodied! So now I have to carry the cat from room to room when he wants to eat or drink or lock Abby in her box so he can investigate the rest of the house for awhile!
Needless to say we love her and all of her little and BIG quirks!! How could you not love that beautiful smile of hers!!
Thanks for looking!
~Enjoy

AND MORE AFTER PICS

MORE AFTER PICS

SOME AFTER PICTURES OF THE HOUSE

Ok I found my camera and took a few after pictures of the house. Some are technically during pictures because the room is not complete!

The kitchen I am still in the process of sanding cabinet doors and painting until we can totally remodel the kitchen. The downstairs (craft/gaming room) is still a work in progress, not really sure what we are doing in there yet! Um I think the rest speaks for itself!

~Enjoy

AND STILL MORE PICTURES

I still have to take some pictures of the rooms that are completed and upload them. I just found my camera so I will get to that as soon as I can. I have family coming in tomorrow morning so I it may be a day or two! I promise it wont be a whole month..LOL!!

We still have a lot of work to do before it is perfect but we certainly made a huge dent in the big picture! We will be getting all new windows in a few weeks (they have to order them), completely new kitchen sometime after income taxes, new sink, toilett and tub in a few months and then comes a new roof! I have no idea where most of the money or energy is coming from to get all of this done, but I am having a great time making this house my HOME!!!

Thanks for looking!

MORE PICTURES!

MORE PICTURES

I SEE THE LIGHT!!

OH MY WORD!!! I can see the light at the end of the tunnel!! I have now owned my house for 1 month and 3 days! I feel like I have lived here forever!! It has been a long and very tiring process but we have finally moved in and started the unpacking process.

I know that I have been MIA for some time now and I feel bad about not posting anything in so long, but let me share with you what I have been up to for the past month!!

As you all know (and for those that didn't know) we bought a house a month ago! The house we bought was a foreclosure. Now this house was number 25 if I remember correctly out of all the houses our realtor took us to look at. Now this does not include all the houses that we drove by and peeked into the windows! This house was not in horrible shape, but it was to say the least dirty and in need of some TLC!!! LOTS OF TLC!!

We have ripped out tile from the living room and dining room, scrapped off the lumpy ceiling, torn down a wall, removed carpet, sanded and refinished wood floors and so , so much more. Here are a few pictures of what I have been up to. My hubby had to work during most of this process so it was me, my oldest son and his friend Max (we call him our adopted son).

~ENJOY

NO END IN SIGHT!!

Oh my word, I feel like I have been going non stop for weeks. We closed on our house last week and it has been non stop since. So far we have removed all the carpet, scrapped and sanded the wood floors in the bedrooms, removed all the carpet strips, tore up the tile floor in the dining room and living room, painted all the bedrooms (except trim), painted the upstairs bath room, tore off the popcorn ceiling in the dining room and living room, patched holes in the walls and ceiling, and are now in the process of stripping the paint off of the kitchen cupboards. And we are nowhere near done yet. Tomorrow we will be adding a bit of texture to the ceilings, finishing the cupboards (hopefully), and whatever else I can squeeze into the day. I still have to prime and paint the living room before the carpet comes on the 3rd, fix the mess in the kitchen and dining room, paint trim in bedrooms, stain and finish the wood floors and so much more before we can even think about moving in. As of now we are planning on the 4-7 to move into this house. Then we will start cleaning the old house and getting ready for an Estate Sale. That will happen the 9-14th.
I have had no time to do any crafting. I di happen to finish the scrapbook that I made for Andrew's teacher. She said that it was the best gift she had ever gotten in all her years of teaching...wasnt even my best work..LOL!
So please forgive me for not listing any new cards and for not posting more often...IM POOPED!!

I Am Still Here

I know it has been a while since I last posted anything. Life has been kicking my butt!!

It has been crazy busy around here the last few weeks. Lets see, we are teaching our 16 year old how to drive, he drives to school every morning. We are trying to finish the process of buying the house...only 8 days to go till closing!! WOOHOO! We are trying to switch car insurance companies so we can get a cheaper rate with more coverage. Today I had jury duty, didn't get chosen! The end of the school year is only 2 1/2 weeks away so you can imagine all that is included with that, field trips, field day, tests...you name it!! And so much more that I just wont bore you with!

Anyway, my neck seems to be healing very well. I can spend most of my time now without the collar! Every now and then it gets tired and needs a break. I AM DRIVING NOW...WOOOOHOOOO! I am thrilled! I have to admit though that Rob was correct when he said it would be cheaper for me to not be driving. I think I have hit every scrapbook and craft store that we have here! I will say that I have not bought nearly as much as I wanted to!

I have been trying to come up with an idea for a card for once we move to the new house to send out to everyone. My friend Lori gave me a pop up file to use that is super cute. I am going to tweak it a bit more and once we close on the house I will post a picture of it. I don't want to jinx it by showing the card before I get the house! Silly I know, but that's how I am!
So stay tuned for pictures!