Our house is slowly coming along

old hallway look with 2 tone faded paint and carpet. Freshly painted doors, trim and walls....much better:)
Sandy....you are the best for coming and helping us paint that fun detailed molding

New kitchen floors
Old kitchen floors.....yuck:) so glad those are gone!
Old carpet and the starting of the new paint color...I am so happy with how the color turned out. It was harded than I thought to pick good paint colors for large rooms. Freshly painted living room with newly finished hardwood floors

Well the house is coming along. We have had a lot of great help and some hired help and it is starting to look more like our home than a 1950's old house. The hardwood floors are done!! Yippie:) The painting is part way done.....all the major areas are finished (like our master bedroom and the living room areas.) The guest bedroom and office will have to wait until after we move in to be finished....we are moving in this Thursday so we are in crunch time!! Thanks so much to my Dad, my Mom, Matt's mom Barbara, Jan, Sandy and the countless workers that have helped to make the renovations go faster for our move in date. We could not have done it without you. I will post more pictures soon....the hall bath is totally a mess. We had all of the tile removed (it was pink and mauve) and we are still in the process of cleaning up that mess and fixing the bathroom.

Cabo 2008

Matt and I had a wonderful time with Chris and Jennifer in Cabo. It was a perfect getaway right in the middle of our house renovations....of which I will post pictures of that fun mess in a few days. We needed a small break from all of the work. We fell in LOVE with Cabo. It is so beautiful there. I have been to several cities in Mexico and this is by far the prettiest location in Mexico I have seen. It is very mountainous and has very pretty scenery all around. Here are a few pictures from our trip. We can't wait to visit again. Thanks Chris and Jennifer for sharing your wonderful resort with us.

Matt and I on the sunset cruise. They took us near "Lovers beach" and the famous arch.
View of the city from our resort.

Chris and Jennifer before we went to dinner at Cabo Wabo...which by the way serves delicious food.
We visited the glass blowing factory where they produce a majority of the blown glass that we purchase from places like Pier 1. It was very cool to watch. This man was making a glass fish.
Jennifer and Chris on the sunset cruise.
Picture of the pirate ship we went on at dusk. The pirate show was kinda cheesy but the scenery was great!
The famous arch near lovers beach. The picture does not do it justice.

This is the Palmilla Golf Club....which was designed by Jack Nickalus, where Matt and Chris played golf. It was absolutly beautiful. Jennifer and I were their caddies for the day. The scenery was worth the long 18 holes of golf that they played. It got very hot at times but Jennifer and I had cold hand towels to cool off.
Chris and Matt with a cactus on the course. They were all over the place. We also saw some sort of lizard and then lots of little chipmucks....they were so cute and very fast.
Umm......the best golf cart driver ever!!

One of the prettiest holes backed right up to the ocean.

Matt's great swing...... keep your head down honey.

Matt and I in the infinity pool. In the far left corner you can see a little ship. We went on that Pirate sunset cruise one night and it was a lot of fun.
This was the view from our balcony. It was neat to watch the cruise ships come and go over the week. There was also a big shopping market place across the street where we could do some local shopping for goods and fun stuff.

Matt took this picture. Cabo is very popular for Marlen fishing. They would hang fish up all day. It was the start of heavy Marlen fishing so there were plenty of fishermen and thier catches to be seen all day. Next time we go Matt wants to go out on a fishing boat. Instead of fishing the boys opted for playing golf near the ocean. We had a great time and the week was so very relaxing. I wish I could look at scenry like that all the time. We are now back to the grind of the house renovations and wait till you see the before and after pictures of the house. It is coming along.....still not anywhere near done but getting a little face lift. More pictures to come soon.

Cabo here we come!

Matt and I are leaving Sunday for a relaxing week in Cabo. We are so excited and ready for relaxing time on the beach. We will be traveling with our fun friends Chris and Jennifer. It will be a nice relaxing time before the big move into the house and renovations that we will continue when we return. Matt is excited about playing golf near the beach at a really nice resort. Jennifer and I are looking forward to our day at the spa. Pictures to come when we return.

The Countdown is On!

Matt and I are getting so excited about the house. We officially take ownership next Thursday....that is 9 days from now! We can't wait. It seems like forever since we first saw it and put a contract on it. Matt and I will spend the first few weeks painting and having the wood floors redone so we won't move out of our apartment until about mid Aug. We will be spending a lot of time working on it before we move in. So if you have this burning desire to help us paint....we are ready to give you a paintbrush!! I have picked out a color for the living room and for the master bedroom that I think will look great! Here are a few more pictures that I promised weeks ago of the inside of our house. Sorry for the old furniture look the 80 year old owner nicely let me take these pictures of her house when we went to look at it. Now I am sure all will look a lot different by the time any of you see if but this will give you a little peek inside. I will post more pictures as we start the painting and such so you can watch the progress.

The pictures are of: dining room, living room, kitchen (eating area), kitchen

It's Sunday but Monday's coming:)

Some days you just have that ahh moment in church that leaves you feeling you want to lay at the feet of Jesus. Today was that day for me. As I sat in Church and listened to the guest speaker I felt as if God and I were the only ones in the room and he was speaking to just me. The Lord has blessed me with so much and yet my heart feels so heavy for some of the people in my life and situations around me that are so beyond my control. Gosh how often I grumble at the Lord for different things in my life but today I am reminded that God is not ready to get me to the END of whatever it is as fast as I am ready to get there. I should be trusting and praying rather than grumbling about whatever. I know that God will always provide for Matt and I and that his timing is so perfect. So often I think to myself..... if I could only see 1 year ahead or just get a small glimpse of the future....but that is not what God intends for us. Today I was so reminded why God draws us to depend solely on him for everything. He longs for us to solely depend on him for everything and to draw us close to him.....even the small things we think we can handle. I get so busy that I tend to forget how big my God is and how much he dearly loves Matt and I. As Matt and I walk through this life we learn to trust him more and more each day. We learn so much when we just trust him and let go. I pray for all sorts of situations all the time and I know that God will heal all of the worries I have in His time and in His way. My heart is so full and I am so thankful for everything in my life. I love Sundays and how we visit the Lords house and praise him. Sunday are so comfortable and feel so at home with the Lord.....but I know Monday is coming and I pray that what I declare to the Lord every Sunday is how I live my life on Monday-Saturday:) The Lord is so so good yall!