My parents have truly outdone themselves – for my birthday this year, they redecorated our porch!!!  What an awesome idea for a gift, especially considering we’re in the midst of a very time consuming bathroom remodel and have very little time to think about anything else house-related :) Here are the “after” pictures:   I …
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The roofers are done with their work!  New shingles, siding, gutters, skylights, soffit, and fascia!  Whew :)  Of course, we had our share of fun when it decided that for the one week we didn’t have shingles, it had to rain… scratch that, STORM badly, every single evening.  But we escaped with a few leaks, …
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Finally, we’ve moved our master bedroom to the “real” master upstairs!  It’s much larger, and best of all, it has two closets that are each twice as big as what we had in the guest bedroom!  YAY! I actually said I wasn’t going to share these photos in blog-land yet… because the room is very …
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Over time, our living room decorations have changed a bit, and I figured enough changes have happened now to update the blog.

Remember my recent posts where we’ve taken out our bushes?  Well, here are the first two pictures again… Before any of the bushes were taken out: Again after the first bush was taken out… And then I showed you another picture with the bush gone.  But … I took it with a different lens.  And …
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Last week marked one of my favorite days of the year… spring clean-up trash day!  In our neighborhood, we are allowed to set out as much “garbage” as we want just one day a year.  Most people take this opportunity to get rid of unwanted furniture and household items.  Our own trash pile included complete …
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Such a simple task, but it made such a huge difference!  Obviously we still need to dig out the roots, but at least now people can walk by our sidewalk without stepping off!  And we can see when we’re pulling out of our driveway!  :) This actually spurred us on to clean up the front …
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Just a few pictures of our bedroom – these are already semi-outdated considering we have changed our comforter to a plain white one we found on black Friday (for $20!).  I also have some pillows on the bed now… but the artwork over our bed hasn’t changed, and that’s the focus of this post! The …
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This Christmas break has given us a bunch of extra time to work on projects around the house.  It felt great to get moving on the house again since it’s been a while since we’ve done anything big!  We decided to tackle the kitchen and finish it up… if you remember, we left off after …
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