Scarey Alligator

You never know when spontaneous fun will happen! Check out this scarey alligator with Addie inside!

February Sweetheart Night

In February Terry suggested that the High Priests in the Branch put on a Sweetheart Dinner to honor their sweethearts, then he proceeded to organize and put on a super night for all the women. He bought little teddy bears for everyone and small boxes of chocolates. Dinner was great (with the help of Veronica) and everyone took the opportunity to tell everyone about their wonderful sweetheart. Here he is giving his sweetheart a kiss. Isn't he wonderful?

Life with Terry is a field of daisies

This picture was taken in July, when our field was totally white with daisies. God has given us beautiful flowers to enjoy, free.

Well, here are the pictures of our kitchen after we finished the remodeling!

The really cool part is that our field out back becomes solid daisies (see later entry), so one day I went out and picked wild flowers from our field and our 20 acres and made a bouquet, complete with ferns from the forest. What a beautiful day that was!

Please note that the yellow counter top is now changed!









Here is a view out of the side kitchen window. I changed out the curtains and we love it!

















Another view of the kitchen. Terry put the microwave above the stove, freeing up some counter space. Love it! He is wonderful!

Remodeling The Home Place

Well, it was time for the 1983 yellow and gold to go! If you know me, you know pastels are not going to stick around too long. First I started painting the walls "Woodrow Wilson Putty", that was nice, but against the yellow, well it looked kind of lavender! Not good! So, next I thought, well maybe I can paint the brown trim white, that will help.

If you ever think of doing that, let me just tell you, you are in for a bunch of work because you probably think, "This won't take long. How long could it take? Those are just little pieces of wood." Well, what I didn't calculate was painting everyting with primer (2 coats because I wanted to do a really thorough job.) Then I wanted to paint everything again with two coats of paint. Of course you have to tape everything off so you don't make a big mess. Thankfully later I bought a really good brush and was able to paint so well that I did not have to tape too much.

Aha! More yellow! It has to go! I painted all of the cupboards in the house a country green. (Read next entry) Of course the counter top had to go along with the floor. Well, that took awhile too! But we are so happy with the way things turned out. Needless to say, this took about three months of continuous work. I painted so long, my fingers seemed to be frozen around a brush. We changed out the doors and lights, carpet, flooring, mop board. Terry did a great job on the mop board, now it is all white and looks so nice!

Well, this is how how it looked during the process.