Snow Day

 

It is another day with a beautiful white blanket covering everything.  I decided I should post the photos from the eight inch snowfall we had at the beginning of January.  It was quite the surprise for us!

A local photographer created this time lapse of the snow. 

Zero to 10...... inches of snow on the Oxford square from scottburtonphotography on Vimeo.

A Year Later...

December 2009

December 2010

Wicker Chair

I bought this chair at a local antique store.  

I loved the size and shape of the chair, but could forgo the flower painted on the chair.  It was nothing a little paint wouldn't fix. 

Screen Porch

We took the day off of work on Monday to work on our screen porch.  It is about to be perfect weather for sitting out on the screen porch and enjoying the weather.  We had to cut the screen on the porch to remove the refrigerator from the house, and Angie had created two other holes in the screen. 

Removing the old screen.

Enlarging and moving the door opening.  The door was a single door and we made it a double door.

Staining the screen doors.

Proof that I do more than just take pictures!

After

Angie can't resist posing for a photo.

Floor Progress

Last weekend we started installing the wood floors at our house.  See the progress for yourselves....

 

MVP

A week ago Britton was the MVP (Most Valuable Player) when he hit the game winning in the park grand slam at his softball game.  This week we are dealing with a completely different MVP - Bostik MVP (Moisture Vapor Protector). We first had to move all the "stuff" out of our house.  This is what the rooms looked like with everything cleaned out. 

Then we swept, vacummed, and mopped the entire house thoroughly.

Then on went the MVP.

And lots of it...

People often ask us when we are going to have kids.  I always answer, "Can you imagine living with a baby in our house the way it is now?"  This label on the MVP reinforced my thought ...

 It was hard enough trying to keep our curious dog away from the compound as we troweled it on the floor. 

This weekend we hope to put our wood floors down.

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Happy Fourth of July!

Mudroom

Below is a picture of our old laundry room/ new mudroom when we moved into the house. 

 

This is a picture of it in January.  You can see we had already taken the paneling off the walls and the closet door out.  It was one of those accordion doors.  We had also already replaced the window.

 

Britton started working on installing the new drywall last weekend.

And these are two photos I took this morning.  Drywall up, mudding started. It is beginning to take shape.

 
The door in the photo leads to our new laundry room. 

Laundry Room

Besides the obvious washer and dryer what does a laundry room need?  Water in and water out.  Last week we had pipes installed for a drain, hot water and cold water hook up for our new laundry room (old storage room). 

 
Britton then filled the hole he had jack hammer only a few weeks ago with new concrete.    We are a few steps closer to one of these....

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