snowflakes..

Unfortunately, the house no longer looks this pretty. It's 40 degrees and raining right now. But I like to pretend it is still snowy ;)
Curling up on the couch for a nice winter nap...thats what we love. And our animals do, too.
Joe caught this shot last winter while hiking around at camp. Love it!
Here is a look outside our living room windows during the really cold weather a few weeks ago. It was sunrise and I just thought the ice was so beautiful (although not the best for our gutters, hmm...)

Looking Back...

Here are some great pictures from our summer adventures with michael & liz this past summer. They gave us an amazing christmas gift of a photo book that had pics from all summer and the trips we took together! Love it! So i was just thinking back and wanted to post some neat shots.
This is a view from the top of the Beartooth Highway...it felt like we were on top of the world!

On a hike through the Tetons, we stopped at Lake Solitude for breakfast. Wow.
At 11,000 ft in the Tetons, on my birthday!!! :)
And this is the favorite campsite. Can it get any better than this??

Some of the finished Product!

Hutch along the living roome/kitchen wall. We love it!

Dining room with a fresh coat of paint (done by Mom & Dad Brown!). I love the white and brown combo.

Looking into the living room from the dining room... we still need to finish some trim on the half wall.
Kitchen, as of now! We would love to continue improvements on this area, as the cabinet faces are plastic yet :) As time and money allows, i suppose! We also want to install an island for extra space!

And here is looking into our new living room! The carpet is wonderful and we like the color of the walls, nice and neutral. *Sigh* We love living here! Still alot of work to do, but we are excited to tackle it all!

The Remodel continues

I am smiling here, but only because I am in a picture. This was during the period of wall paper scraping. Grrrr. Lets just say I took off 4 LAYERS of wall paper, some of it pasted right onto un-primed drywall. Oh my. Never want to do that again!

Here is the kitchen in the middle of things....notice Molly on the floor?? We brought her blanket each day we came to the house so she would have a place to lay down. Awwh.
Here is the living room/kithcen wall before Joe did the drywall work (eventually all of this old drywall came out and we did brand new!)

A few layers of mud and dust layer, here is the wall! Joe was worried about how it would look, but he did a great job! Nothing like hands-on experience to learn a new skill!
What a sad face Molly! Drop cloths are her friend :)

more remodeling!!! Initial stages...

Here is Sue in the process of scraping off the dust/GREASE on the kitchen cupboards (tops and panels). Ewwwww was the only word we murmured for a while during this process. I am thankful for her perseverance and boldness! :)

Stairwell before....
In the Process of the stairwell....

Living room entry way before....

Opened up after we took the door and partial wall out!!!