Spring Cleaning in the middle of Winter???

Well I guess that's what you can call it. We've been doing a lot of long time needed work to our place. The first of January we had a choir party at our place, which sparked a fire in us to get a lot of much needed work done! We have certainly been slackers on the house since being so busy with school and work! We got so much done, maybe we need to have party's at our place about every three months to keep the maintance up on the place! Here are some of the things we have been busy doing:

-Repainting the front door which had peeled down to the metal due to a manufacter's defect, I do not have a before picture of this, you would not have wanted to see that sight!

-Washing the siding and brick down with colorox which had been put to the test after not being washed down for a few years.

-Repainting a spare bedroom...Green, which this picture doesn't do justice!

-Repainting a hall way that never got painted due to Brian's "fear" of the color "cut the mustard" taking over our house that he hated at first sight! (which I will admit doesn't look that swell without decor!)

-Repainted the shutters black which were starting to chip from the last painting. They once were green, now they are black. Like everything else up here according to my Dad. He says soon it will look like halloween...Men really should leave the decorating to the women!

-Replaced all the screens in the windows that were dry-rotted from the sun.

-Trimmed all the box woods so that now actually resemble a box wood!!!

-Put out new mulch on top of the 3 year old pinestraw that had also been put to the test when it come to doing the job of keeping out the weeds!!!

-And we FINALLY got the rotten floor fixed in our laundry room and beautiful tile laid. Due to some unfortunate air condition problems (which have now been fixed as well) we were left with this ugly mess! If you look to the right of this picture you will spot something that just doesn't fit. Kinda reminds you of those pictures when you were a kid where you circled everything that just didn't belong in the picture...yeah well, in this case it would be the big piece of wood over the floor. Fortunately this is all the pictures I have of that ole' rotten floor that stayed that way for 4 long years. Who wants to take pictures of their ugly rotten floor anyway?? We are definitely people who live with it until you just HAVE to get it fixed!!! I am so glad to have this project complete. Unfortunately, being the creatures of habit we are, we still step over this "hole" even though it's no longer there!!

I am so glad to have all of this complete! Whew!! Now I remember why this doesn't get done but once a year!

Blogging Slacker

I do realize that I am sooo behind on my blogging. So behind in fact, if there were a sentence for the crime of not blogging I would recieve the maximum!!! We have been so busy that I haven't had time to blog! We are still alive and doing quite well actually. Brian is enjoying his vacation from school until August and we have a lot to accomplish before then. He is planning on going to Mobile and UAB to have a sit down face to face meeting to inquire about all the in's and out's of each school before he makes the big decision as to which one to attend. Be in prayer for him as he faces this decision as it will be where he completes the rest of his Master's Degree. We are looking forward to the day of completion but the journey to get there will not be an easy one, so remember Brian as he tackles these upcoming feats.
We have been doing a lot of things around the house that have needed to be done for quite sometime now. I have been trying to take pictures to show the fruits of all of our hard labor but haven't gotten in all of them. I am currently working on that blog and will be posting it soon. So keep a watch...we are still here and I will be posting more soon! Take care everyone! I hope all is well!