Latest on the New House

As promised - here are some more pictures of our new house. I will have to keep looking at these while we are living out of a hotel room. We had to get temporary housing because we are not due to close on our new house until the end of November. Our temporary housing quicly became a hotel room because a lot of places did not want to rent for us for a short amount of time AND they would not accept our dogs. So hotel room it is......





That is blue protective tape over the oven door.



I love the extra countertop above the sink.



Dining Room



Introducing the new 'Man's Den'. I am SO excited about the door on the room for the comode. Now I can be in the bathroom getting ready while he is in THAT room. The running joke is that we bought a comode with a door that came with a house.



Yes that is trash in the tub - I'm sure they will do a great job cleaning it before we move in though.

3...2....1....

We are down to the last 3 weeks in STL. For so long it has been 'oh we are moving in 6 months, 3 months, 8 weeks, 6 weeks.....' and now here we are in the last few weeks in St. Louey. I, the planner thought we had everything ready to go. Turns out there are quite a few things we still need to do, but it is not so easy to plan as Mike's work has to set up the movers, storage unit, etc. Of course the more questions you think of, the less time there is for the corporate gew-rues to answer. Now that we are in these last few weeks, my stomach is a rumblin' in anticipation. Once we send the movers off, we could use some help cleaning the house if you would like to come on over.

Hope you all had a fun and safe Labor Day weekend. Saturday early evening we went and had dinner with our friends from Church and played 'Apples to Apples'. If you have never played it is something you should try. It is very funny - and I bet would be pants wetting hysterical after a few cocktails. Then we came home, fed the pups (who are doing well thank you) and went to our neighbors house for Margaritas & FARKLE. That is another game that is side cramping fun once you have had a Margarita or six. My neighbor Terri could even keep up with the math of the game while having Margaritas. Sunday was a nice easy, relaxin' day and same goes for today (Monday). It has been nice to have this long weekend to catch up with our friends and family before we move.

Well it is getting late and I need to get ready for bed. More to come later and picures of our new house that is almost completed in SC.

We have a driveway!

Mike pulled up to the house on Thursday (8-13-09) after meeting with the builder on Monday and he said "WE HAVE A DRIVEWAY"! I thought a driveway came with the house, glad to know it is for sure now! He unexpectedly had to stay in SC for this week too - so maybe he will be able to take more pictures. It is coming along so quickly! Here are the latest pictures. Louie is getting bettter, traffic through our home in St. Peters is increasing and things are coming together for the move. Please continue to pray that our home in St. Peters sells before we move!

Front View



Back View (patio is going to be bigger than that)

Great Room

Master Bedroom

Cieling in Master Bedroom

New House Coming Along!

Mike is in SC all this week, so he will be able to take more pics. He had a pre-drywall meeting with the builder on Monday and when he called me after the meeting I thought he would be really excited about the house. Instead he was a little confused....Mike said that it was hard to picture everything in it because it looked like small with the frames all over the place. Here are some pics of our new house. It is amazing to see it all transform. Pray that our current house sells so we can actually move into this one!

Louie needs your help!

Our wonderful pup Louie is currently very sick. He developed an anemia that is very serious. After 8 weeks of being on steroids and antibiotics he underwent a bone marrow test (very painful). The good news from the test was it is NOT lymphoma and his body is trying to produce good blood cells. Unfortunately the infection is so high right now his good cells are being consumed by the bad. We are going to try getting some high dose antibiotics in him and taking him off the steroids. If this does not work we will be going back to MIZZOU for a blood transfusion. I am in the process of raising funds for Louie. If you can help him in any way we sure would appreciate it. Of course donations are accepted in any denomination. The bone marrow test was $400 and if we need the blood transfusion that is another $400 (that is the rate at Mizzou - in STL it was going to be $1,o00 for the BM Test). That is on top of the bills from all the tests, meds, and twice a week trips to the vet. Of course we are trying everything we can for him - but the vet bills keep going up and I am still unemployed. If you are able to help Louie out in any way, he will surely never forget you.

The bare spot in this pic is where is IV was.

This bare spot is where they got the bone marrow from.

Poor pup passed out after a 14 hour ordeal.

Ah the cruise life!

We went on a cruise in June 2009 for Mike's 30th Birthday. If you ever get the chance to go you absolutely should! It was wonderful. Eat what you want when you want to, sleep when you want to, visit several different ports, lots of shopping....it was definitely worth every penny! I have included some pictures for your enjoyment and hopefully pretty good persuasion! ; )

Mike & John (aka brothers)



Elegant Night



The view as we lay out at Grand Turk




That's a big boat! Notice the people walking in the lower left corner?




We caught the Motown performance one evening. This man was awesome!




This guy had a great show as well!




Carnival's private island Half Moon Caye



Gardens on the island







The guys play the drums at the Bahamas!









Our server Craig from Jamaica - he was great!




Our other servers - they were all wonderful

Sell This House!

Know anybody looking to buy a house? We are trying to sell ours in St. Peters. We love living in St. Peters! But as the story goes, we must move. St. Peters has free movies in the park over the summer, 3 Targets close by, REC Plex, Recycling Programs, etc. We espically have great neighbors and many kids on our street. We will be sad to leave this house, but are looking forward to our new one in SC. Here are some pictures of our house - please pass it along to get it out there....you never know who might be interested. Our house is 3 bedrooms, 1.5 bath, extra living room downstairs and possible 4th bedroom with built in bookshelves and desk. We have a large, flat, fenced back yard that borders common ground. Please pass along the link to this part of the blog. We need all the help we can get. Thank you!!!!

Dining Room

Kitchen

Breakfast Bar

New Bathroom April 2009

1/2 Bath downstairs

Master bedroom has walk in closet.

Spare bedroom

These are my no sew curtain/closet doors I made. HA - that is a lot of seam tape!!!

Nursery

Upstairs Living Room

Downstairs living room with fireplace.