It's about time!!!!!

Sooo......, you'd think since I've been out of school for over a month and a half, I would have found the time to blog before now.  I am way behind on posting all the fun things we've been up to, but for now I am just going to post a few projects we've been working on at the house.  

Let's start in the front.

BEFORE

DURING

The trees were dead, and now they're a stack of firewood in the backyard thanks to a chainsaw and Spencer's new winch.

AFTER

The next area is the east side of the front yard.

BEFORE

AFTER

crookneck yellow squash, pear tomatoes, goliath tomatoes, zucchini, acorn squash, bell peppers, and two types of lettuce

And now let's venture inside the house, shall we?  Starting with the family room.

BEFORE

Sorry for the lame photo - I couldn't find another one.  The walls had blue wallpaper under the chair rail (which was painted navy blue) and a border just above it.  It was gross.

AFTER

And finally, the kitchen!  This is my favorite interior project so far, and it was also the most work.

BEFORE

Yum, shredded carrots!

DURING

cabinet doors removed

sanding

painting (our garage was unusable for a while)

tearing out the drop ceiling

It took Spencer a while to figure out how to push all these wires into the newly raised ceiling.  He had to extend some of them, put in a few junction boxes, drill holes through the floorboards, and more, but he did it!

After painting cabinets, raising the ceiling, installing canned lighting, painting walls, and getting new counters...

AFTER

My favorite part is the granite countertop.  

It's also the easiest part because we didn't have to do any of it ourselves!  We hired out the countertops and the drywall on the raised ceiling, but everything else was done by us--with the help of our families.

We've done a lot in the backyard too, but you'll have to wait a little while to see those pictures.