Update on the housing situation



Our house is in contract. (Yippee!) The buyer's are finalizing their financing (had to get an appraisel and pest inspection to the lender~they are doing a FHA loan.) Hopefully, we they will get the green light on Monday.

We have a contract on ***** ******** that is contingent on the sale of our house. We have already had the inspections done. These are some pictures that I took after the inspection. (I wish I would have taken more, but the homeowner was outside waiting on us to leave!)


This is the front. I am trying to decide what to do with that monkey grass!

















This is the front flower bed. April thinks that the shrubs are dwarf yupons. Don't know what I will do here, either!
















Jeff and I have never had a nice master bathroom. We are very excited about this one! It has two walk-in closets, a shower, watercloset, and bathtub. Sometime in the future, we plan on replacing the bathtub with a garden/whirlpool tub.























The shower had already been remodeled:























This is the double vanity with the original cultured marble countertop. We will change this, just don't know when!

















The master bedroom is also larger than we have ever had. It has a cool raised ceiling! And this large window:










Between the entrance to the Master Bedroom and the backdoor is this wetbar. Jeff would like to see if he can install a mini-fridge in the cabinets underneath. We are wanting to replace the counter with granite and a new faucet.

This is the livingroom. The previous owners decorated with Southwestern decor as you can probably tell by the cow head skeleton light pull that appears to be floating in the air.










The backyard is really small, so it will be a challenge to garden in. It is shaped kind of like a slice of pie. Here is one view taken while standing on the back porch looking straight back.











This is the back flowerbed. It has a nice concrete runner to keep out the weeds. Looks like they still got in, though! It has a wisteria vine growing in it that will have to be removed! Those things will take over a house.

You can tell where my priorities are! The bathroom and the garden! LOL

Anyways, this could all fall apart but we all know that Grace will provide us with the right house at the right time.

'Til next time....

It was ugly!

The diningroom before:














The kitchen/diningroom after:
















Jeff even tiled part way into the laundry room:

















We will tackle the rest of the floor and the walls this coming week in the Laundry room:

Merry Christmas to me!

I got my Christmas present early! Isn't my new rug delicious?!!!! The flash is messing up the color on the left end.

Can I make it?

Long time, no type! I have been so busy with the candles and homeschool! It seems to never end. Oh, and I was sick, too. Finally feeling better.

I have decided today that I will be on a new quest to see how many days I can go without spending any money! I have been throwing around money like it grows on trees and the checking account shows it!

I won't start today because I have to buy milk (my family would starve to death without milk). I will start tomorrow. But, it will be easy tomorrow because it is a day that we stay at home and don't have to be in WF all day. The most challanging day will be next Monday when we are in town for Homeschool Co-op. And then again on Thursday for Volleyball practice.

As far as the homefront goes, Jeff and I have finished grouting the kitchen. Who knew that when you add tile to your floor, your dishwasher doesn't want to shut anymore and your fridge doesn't fit back into it's niche! Jeff magically adjusted the legs of the dishwasher. Not so easy on the Fridge, though. He had to remove the trim piece of wood above it, will have to cut it shorter and then router it to make the cut edge match. Then, I will get to restain it. Fun! Fun! It is always something, though.

The baseboards are in, too! I just need to sand all of the wood putty areas (nail holes) and then touch-up the paint.

Hopefully we will start on the DiningRoom sometime in December. I am really hoping to have the house ready to put on the market in February. We'll see.

Oh, yeah, big news............
We have a cross-dressing cat! Meeko has turned out to be a boy! Yes, our little baby boy, turned girl (thanks to Jeff!), has turned into a boy! He was jumping off my bed the other day and I was shocked to see that he had little boy parts! I actually had to get online to make sure I was seeing what I thought I was seeing!

Gotta go get ready for Bible Class!

'Til next time..................

Slowly but Surely

Jeff took yesterday off work and we worked all day long on this dang Kitchen floor. This is how far we got:


All of this took one 50lb bag of mortar!

And here is proof that I actually helped! I get stuck with the clean up everytime. It took about 2 hours.


Here's one of Jeff just getting started.

Sooo pretty!

Well, the remodeling has really slowed down. I am in the process of trying to decorate the Kitchen. I am really going for a "modern" Old World look! I am trying to get the layout right on this post but it isn't looking so good in the Preview box. Bear with me if it looks stupid, for it isn't my fault!!!

Here is what we have so far:

I found these plates at Ross:

Got this picture for a steal at Garden Ridge:

My Favorite plates from Dillard's:

Jeff took Wednesday off work so he could work on the Kitchen tile. Yipee!

Paradise City

Andy may have a new truck, but look at what I have!!!! After 5 years of waiting, my Bird of Paradise has finally bloomed.