Quick Update...

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So here is a fast update on what's new with us. This past weekend Sherri and I went and hiked in the Portage Valley near Portage Glacier, it was a beautiful day and we really enjoyed being outside in the sun!

Tonight we are going to see Elton John in concert!! We are both very excited, he is a musical legend and it should be an amazing show!!

Sherri finished the guest room!! It looks SO great! We bought a bed for the room and it is all ready for guests (hint hint hint for everyone who has not been to Alaska). Here is a picture of the room (before the bed and furniture got moved in)....


We are also tearing apart the downstairs bathroom because it is getting finished this weekend! We are installing new lighting, a new vanity top, new sink and new toilet and we are painting!! Today I removed the old lighting and medicine cabinet, and removed the caulking from around the sink.

This bathroom is the last BIG project that we have!! So we are hoping that as of early next week we will have everything crossed off of our list that we wanted to do!!

The whole process has been SO much fun, we have enjoyed MANY trips to Home Depot, we have not enjoyed the thousands of dollars that we have spent there, but it is an investment, right? We have also enjoyed the many late nights trying to get projects finished. However, I think that we are most enjoying just being together in our own home.

We will post bathroom pictures once it gets finished!

Hello Summer...Nice To See You Again...

Here I am getting ready to work in the garden at about 10pm. It's still light!!


Here is the outside now. The bed on the right has the flowers and on the left has the veggies. You can see our new bench up against the house and the bird feeder in the tree. We also put in a decorative metal fence on the back side of the flower bed, to separate it from the walking path, but it is hard to see in this photo. (click on the image to enlarge it)

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Hello Everyone!!





Well, summer is here. We have had a couple beautiful weekends with sunshine and temps in the 60's. So we are officially in the early part of summer! Our house is looking great and we only have a couple more projects till we are finished!! The nice weather has allowed us to focus some of our attention to the outside of our property. We have a nice front area with a couple of very nice flower beds and some great outside space. We decided that we would use 1 bed for flowers and 1 primarily for vegetables / herbs. In the veggie bed we have planted strawberries, blueberries, chives, basil, mint and lettuce. I will be planting a tomato plant this coming weekend hopefully. In the flower bed we got a great mixture of flowers and i think it looks very good! We also bought a bird feeder (seen in the tree in the photo) and a new outside bench (also seen in the photo) that gives us a nice lace to sit outside on nice evenings.

It is staying light till after 11pm so that has allowed us A LOT of time outside. We have been working outside in the evenings, and we have been going for evening walks around the lake and the neighborhood.

That is all for now, I am sure that we will post more soon!!

A little "before and after"..

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Well, the move is over, we are totally out of the condo, we went over last night and did all of the final cleaning. We are making a lot of progress on the new house. We have already unpacked dozens of boxes and it is really starting to feel like "home"!! I thought I would give everyone a little glimpse of the before and after pictures of a few areas of our house so you can see the progress that we have made.

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First, here is the kitchen. This was BY FAR our biggest project. As you can see the cabinets were all dark wood. We painted the cabinets white, changed the oven hood to a more modern one, and we added a new dishwasher and fridge. The only thing in the kitchen that has not yet been done is the new sink faucet. We have it purchased, it just hasn't been put in yet.

(kitchen before)

(kitchen after)

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Next we have our Dining / Laundry area. The laundry room initially had these hideous gold / glass bi-fold doors covering the laundry room. We changed the doors to a nicer bi-fold and we even used the same brushed nickle knobs that we used on all of our kitchen cabinets. We also put our pan rack on the back wall.


(dining / laundry before)

(dining / laundry after)

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Finally here is the old and new entry way lights. The person who lived here before had an obsession with gold. And honestly, it isn't really our style. So we changed the entry way light to a more modern brushed nickle light. One of the guys from Tecpro, where Sherri works, was kind enough to come out and install the light for us!

(entry light before)

(entry light after)

These are just three of the areas that we have shown we also are finished with the master bedroom, office and living room. We will try and post a "walk through video" sometime very soon to show the whole place!!