Our waterheater closet door is the dark spot you see to the right of this picture. Everything that was dark colored has now been painted white. I’ll give an overall bathroom update later, but for now I’m just going to show what a difference it made to change just this …

We’ve had some BEAUTIFUL sunrises lately. It’s hard to get a picture since our view is blocked by the corn field. In another month or so they’ll be chopping it and then we’ll have our view back!

There are SO many things that need to be done around here (LOL)! We even put Nathan to work whenever we find a job that is “just right” for a 4 yo. Here he’s tightening some things on the chairs. That kept him busy for a good long time! I …

Yep. Ready or not school has started. Nathan decided he wanted to learn how to write his name before he starts our co-op Kindergarten next week! So, here we are. He’s working on writing his name while I reorganize the recipe box that fell over… ugh…. I think I’ll need …

I’ve mentioned before that my dad runs the train whenever the local elevator needs to haul out a load of grain. Of course, the boys LOVE to go with him. Josh is already learning how to run the train and I madet he mistake of saying “learning”. He corrected me …

This summer my mom decided she wanted a new bedroom set. She shopped a little bit and decided the set she wanted was OURS! It was really hard for us to decide to get rid of ours because it was the first “real” furniture that we purchased eons ago. We …

Last week we had a professional window cleaner come to wash all of the windows in our home. He did the inside, outside, screens, storms, etc. EVERYTHING in 1/2 the amount of time it would have taken me *IF* I would have even taken the time to do them. *NOT* …

I won’t take the time to repeat the entire story of how/whey we ended up with new leather living room furniture in this blog entry. If you didn’t read the Extreme Home Makeover entry from awhile ago, you can find it by clicking here. to find out how/why (LOL). Here …

My friend, DeEtta, is hosting a Freezer Challenge on her blog. We have three freezers, so I’ll categorize this into three parts. 1. Upright freezer in garage: BEFORE: You can see that the freezer isn’t really very dirty, but it is slightly disorganized – notice the frozen salad containers (cool …

YUM! This is our favorite Sweet and Sour Chicken recipe. It was given to us year ago by some friends who were in our wedding. We don’t make it very often because it takes so long to fry the chicken (other than that it’s an easy recipe). Tim REALLY likes …