Finally, They Rest...

These are my two most favorite men on the planet!!

They have worked so hard on the house and it's going to be wonderful because of them. They have laughed and had a great time together in the process. There will always be Superman and Geritol jokes to remind us all of the hours they spent working together. I am so thankful for them both and praise God for the blessings of them both.

What's going on these days???

The floors are level, the house is ready for the AC and Daniel and

Daddy couldn't be more trilled. I know they are soooo tired of being

underneath the house crawling and working over their heads. They

finished up today with the last few details. They installed water faucets on either end of the house and got a few electrical things ready.

Here are a few pictures

Daniel and his trusty assistant Shula 

This is Shula favorite place. She can watch the front yard and keep and eye on her Daddy.

Is it strange that I am sooo pumped about water faucets???
 

Everything is so green and beginning to bloom.

(excuse the headless statue...he lost his head, but it's there somewhere.)

Engagement Pictures

Wes Roberts is an AMAZING photographer in Troy, AL. He took our engagement pictures a few weeks ago and put several on facebook. I couldn't love these pictures more. Wes did a great job. Daniel and I had a blast hanging out with Wes for the afternoon and his wife Megan joined us later on. They are a precious couple and so much fun. Check out his pictures at www.wesrobertsphotography.com

Here are a few of our pictures

Thank you Wes!!

Yard Process Pictures

Daniel has been working like crazy cleaning up the yard at the house. It looks like a new place.

This is the area behind the barn. There was an old outhouse here and lots of small mimosa trees all tangled with wisteria.

Check out that fire pit!! We built that out in the side yard and circled it with petrified wood that we found all over the yard.

This is the back of the fenced area of the yard. Trees had fallen all over the fence, to a point that the fence wasn't visible in the back.

Before:

Look at it now!

(Shula is already enjoying her big clean yard)

This guy has been working hard cleaning up trees that had fallen on the fence and moving stumps.

Here's what the front looks like now. Daniel and Daddy are working under the house to level the floors. Once that is complete we will have a new AC put in and rebuild the porch.

Right now there is a big hole in the end of the house where the unit sat. It looks bad, but it makes access to the underneath a whole lot easier.

 On a side note, the blueberry bushes look promising!! We have an almond tree and a plum tree also.

This past week Daniel's dad came back to visit and they did more yard work and made room under the barn for the tractor. It fit perfect! Mama, Daniel and I cleaned out the barn on Thursday afternoon.. We found some really cool stuff in there and the barn looks great! Daniel found lots of old tools and mother and I found a coffin box. Yeah, that's right...a coffin box. The big wooden boxes that coffins are shipped in, there is one in the barn. It seems to have been used to store Christmas decorations, but it is still a little Creepy.

On Friday, Daniel and Daddy spent the day working to level the kitchen floor. It's looking great!

IN JOHN DEERE GREEN...

Daniel has a new toy and he is one happy man! On April 24th, Daniel got this Awesome "new to us" tractor. It's a really nice used John Deere tractor. Daddy, Daniel and I went to pick it up from a man in Monroeville and took it out to the house. The weather was terrible all weekend, but as you can see that didn't stop Daniel from taking it on a test drive.

Things are moving along...and blooming!!

The porch has been taken down. There is even less to it than pictured. There is no wood left at all.

And the work under the house begins...

Daniel and Daddy have spent two days working on and under the house getting things in order and working to level the support beams.

The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ~ Song of Solomon 2:12

The Iris' are blooming, the azaleas, and everything else. I absolutely love going to see all the changes taking place in the yard. 

And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. ~ Genesis 1:12

Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness. ~ Acts 14:17 

"Thank You" isn't enough.

Daniel and I have been working to clean the yard up at our house for the past month or so and we never could have gotten all of this done without our wonderful families. I don't know how we will ever thank them for their time and energy they have put into the house and yard. Daniel's dad and grandparents came over yesterday to see the house for the first time and they spent the day helping Daniel take limbs and trees to the landfill. I plan to get yard pictures today and post them soon. For now, here is a picture from yesterday.