Before and After

Okay, you asked for it (or some of you did, anyway) . . .

front of house
before: after: inside front door, looking down the hall
before: after: living room
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not entirely happy with the faux finish (for lack of a better term) on the fireplace wall. it'll do for now, though. i am, however, exceedingly happy with the red and light blue combo.
looking into dining room from living room
before: after:
if anyone is interested, trying to stencil letters on your wall sucks. vinyl letters, however, from greatlettering.com, do not. you can order anything you want, in a lot of different fonts, and they are very easy to apply. i am trying very hard to resist the urge to order every quotation that i can think of that i love and putting words all over my house.

dining room
before: after:
my amazingly talented sister-in-law, Rhonda, made these curtains. she is fabulous!



guest bathroom
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after:




guest bathroom sink
before:
now you see a goobered up chunk of molding on the right that's missing . . .



after:
. . . now you don't!



stairs
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after:


kitchen
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laundry room
before:
after:
(now the back porch)







back of house
before (minus the missing windows and the holes that the tornado made in the back wall):


after


This seems like a good time to thank everyone who helped us with the house or watched the girls while we worked on the house. I don't know what we would do without friends and family who are willing to help us, even though we are the ones who got ourselves in to this mess to begin with :).

And most of all of course, thank you, Jeremy, for the many, many hours of hard work that you put in to the house. You are our family's superhero!!!!

Wedding Videos

I tried to get some short videos of the kids at the reception. They were having such a good time dancing. It was so cool that as they danced on all the rose petals, the smell was awesome. I think I will forever associate the smell of roses with Jana's wedding.

The videos are really dark unfortunately. Sorry they're so random. I was just trying to get a sample of all the action.



Here is Harper Lee and her friend Alyssa, and then Olivia dancing with her friend Haley.



Some adults did get in on the fun, this is Jon's mom and Jon's co-worker. (I wish I would have gotten a video of my parents doing the twist. William's quote: "At least it's not at my school.")




My cousin's daughter, Brooke. I loved the serious expression she had the time she was dancing!




Jeremy and Olivia:

Jon and Jana - July 4, 2008

I will post more about the wedding soon. I feel like we are just now recovering. We all had a great time, and it was wonderful to have so much family together to celebrate with Jon and Jana.

The rehearsal dinner was at our house, and although it seemed like we would never get all the projects done in time, Jeremy pulled it off! We have had remodeling going on in one form or another since we moved in, and it feels SO, SO good to have the majority of the house "done."

If you are interested in seeing wedding pictures, and I somehow missed emailing you the link, here it is:

Jon and Jana
Just click on Photos.