The House's Transformation

Ok, we're finally up and running so I thought I'd post some before and after pics to give you an idea of what we're doing and what we've done to the house. They are in no particular order...

Living Room Before:

Just so you can see the difference, here is the ceiling partially painted with the new white...

Living Room After

Dining Room and Kitchen Before

Can you see the two tones of paint? The kitchen and dining room are different colors

Here's the old hardware up close, it's through the entire house

Here's the living room furnished (thanks Kelly and Joe for the new table)

Kid's Bathroom (new lights and hardware)

That's all for now because I'm tired...but look for more, we still have can lights, etc to put up...

Our Kids

Here are just a few pictures of the kids being kids we thought you'd like. They are so silly and wonderful and funny:

Yes, he's asleep in the toy box...

On the top bunk

Caught stripping

Ready for school

Aiden's New Disorder(s)

Aiden has recently been diagnosed with a case of exhibitionism, which we are trying to handle by avoiding public outings and engagements. Note the clothes in a pile next to him in this picture.

Recently he's been diagnosed with a new and strange disorder. It seems he's suffering from a rare non-genetic problem which we've lovingly dubbed, 'CGWD.'

That's right, Compulsive 'Glub' Wearing Disorder is no laughing matter. Look at the shame he feels because of what he's suffering with.

The combination of the two disorders is almost more than we can bare to live with. That's why we're reaching out to family and friends so we can educate people on this little known problem.

He's even started to hoard what are my two, poor, other children to do if they want to play outside in the snow?

It's so bad that if he can't find glubs he resorts to whatever he can find.

Usually socks

He will shed his glubs on occasion for things that may be difficult to perform with glubs on

Is there any hope for him?

We will not rest until we find a cure, but until then we'll just say,

Hooray for Glubs!!

Our New Home on Oaktrail

Basement view from the stairs (future great room)

Other side of the basement (future bedrooms)

Down to the basement

Master bedroom and bath

Ila's bedroom (sorry... it's dark)

Isaac's bedroom

This is the kid's bathroom

Hall (on the right is a bedroom, linen closet, and another bedroom, on the left at the end is the master)

Aimee's kitchen

Here is the family room looking from the dining room

So we are under contract on a house on Oaktrail. Here are a few pictures of the place. We signed papers and spent about 2 hours over at the house today with Daniel and Cat. We will put up more as we get closer to closing (March 31st.)

Ila Turns 6

Well, it's been awhile and I have no real excuse as to why I don't blog as much as I could, but hey, better late than never right?? Well, yesterday was Ila's sixth birthday. In talking with Jason I asked him if he realized that next year she'll be in first grade and Isaac will be in kindergarten. He didn't want to talk about it. It's hard to admit that your children are growing so quickly. Yesterday I looked at three of them sitting in the pew at church and I realized just how fast they are growing. For example, our little girl got an "MP and 3" player for her birthday, really at six? She says things that amaze me, the observations she makes, the way she reads already, AMAZING!!! She is the smartest little girl ever, she is beautiful and has the biggest heart. We love her and are so grateful that she is a part of our life!

Halloween in Rexburg

Costumes

Ila was Bat Girl, Isaac was Spider Man, and Turtle was a doctor!

Lights Out!

We put orange LED lights along the roof line, orange lights on the bushes infront of the house, and pumkin walkway lights up to the front door. The street lights are on the corner, so our yard gets pretty dark.

Bone Yard

Here is the bone yard. We made most of these tombstones along with the coffin. The coffin opened and closed by a motor I rigged in the bottom of the coffin. I placed a skeleton inside along with a black light. It was awesome!

Wendy the Witch

We built this witch out of a 4x4 post and a pool noodle. It looked great, but the wind took off her head three times. I'm not sure if this one will make to next year. It did have a motor in the caldron that moved the handle around and around. It was pretty cool with the lights and fog machine in the caldron.

Aimee made the tombstone with the misting skull on top. We used sheets of the 1 inch foam from Lowes. It looked great once it was painted gray. We cut out the word BEWARE and placed orange LED lights inside for an eerie glow.

Giant Spider

We put our inflatable spider up in this tree. Fuzzy pic, sorry. This looked great, you could see it from down the street.

Spider's Web

The pic is a little fuzzy, but this is a web we made to hang between out neighbor's trees. We added a few giant spiders and a severed hand in the middle. I made a light box and placed it under the web so you wouldn't walk into it.

Here is our clearance steal from last year. K-Mart had this thing 90% off, and we picked it up for a around $15. Ila's school asked us if they could use it for their school Spook Alley, of course we set it up for them. He sits about 8' tall.

New Addition this year! This little witch stands about 50" tall and waved her left arm up and down. Nice little addition to the walkway.

Creepy Creeper

We hung this guy from the trees, his creepy cloth hung down about 8 feet. We stuck a flood light on him and lit him up. The only problem with this guy was the wind. Every time the wind blew his cloth would bet stuck in the tree. Pretty cool though.

Mr. Bone Jangles

Notice the hands in the hip! Just another glow in the dark skeleton.

Harvest 2 years ago

As requested, I posted some pictures from harvest last year and a snow picture.