Well what can I say?! It has been entirely too long, and I am going to try and add things on the Blog as often as I can. There are social outlets such as Facebook and Twitter, and so I think the need to update this Blog slipped to the bottom of the priority list. I now have a renewed interest to upload current projects and link up blog posts with sewing interest sites I am following, so let's give blogging another shot! I can't promise I will do what I say (update often), but I will do better than going two years without posts! There is just way too much that has happened to try and fill in the time I missed, but let's hit the highlights. I have a daughter now that is 16 months old (not eight weeks in utero as listed in my previous post), and the house remodel is pretty much complete with the exception of piddly things we do all the time (And let me tell you it really is ALL THE TIME). I will update with sewing items I am working on, as well as yard and house projects that are ongoing. (NOTE TO SELF: Ok, this is wearing me out thinking of all these posts I am going to be writing...are you sure you want to do this...:0)

Here is Lucie Riley Jeffcoat who is soon to be the topic of many posts I am sure

Our Baby at 8 weeks

Well it is hard to tell what you are looking at, but the head is at the bottom and the dark spot is the developing brain. This is an ultrasound at eight weeks one day. We also head the heartbeat at this doctor visit and the heartbeat was 169 beats per minute. This is fast, but they say at that stage that all heartbeats are fast. We are already trying to figure out if it is a girl or boy. There was a rumor that girls heartbeat is faster than boys, and I know some people this turned out to be true for, and others that it did not. We will see! Maybe at the twelve week appointment on September 1st!

House Remodeling

Right front side of the house with siding. This is the Kitchen bump out..

Front of the house with new front door installed, it will be dark stained.

Still have to put the new porch flooring in, and the ceiling in the new area

The new well house ready for siding, and roofing

View from Upstairs Middle Dormer Window

Left side bedroom-this is the closet across the backside-window is on the right-bathroom on the left- and dormer would be beind the person that took the photo.

Upstairs Bathroom. It will have a double vanity and then pocket doors that go into the tub/toilet area.

Upstairs Bedroom to the right when coming up the stairs-Dormer behind the person taking the photo, door to the right, window on the left

Dormer Window for upstairs right bedroom

Half Upstairs/Half Downstairs taken from the steps and looking to the left

Downstairs master Bath/Closet area

Downstairs Bathroom

Kitchen

Kitchen

Fireplace and Den

Fireplace

Electrical Panel In Sewing/Laundry Room

We we are approximatley six months into the remodel, and hopefully back in the hose within another couple months. Sheetrock, last electrical, beams in the kitchen, flooring, tile, trim, cabinets, counter tops, lighting, painting inside and out, asphalt driveway, and stone work has to be done...and we are getting to the end of the budget. We may have to wait on stone work and asphalt to the new carport. We added a lot of things we were not going to add as we were remodelin such as going ahead and finishing the upstairs, the side porch, and the garage part. We had talked about waiting on all of those parts, but I am so glad now that we did not.

We are Pregnant!

We found out the day before our three year anniversary that we are pregnant! I took a home test, but then we went to the doctor to confirm it. We started telling everyone that day. We told my parents and J.D. and Stephanie at Mom and Dad's house, and the next day we told Bryon's family. We first drove to see Mrs. Twilla and tell her, then to Mr. Ronnie's store to tell him, and then we went to Brandon and Taylor's house. We waited at Brandon and Taylor's for a long time for Brandon to get home from work, but then it kinda came out right before he got there. We were all trying to keep a straight face when he walked in, but it came out kinda quick. We have our next doctor's appointment on the 22nd. I am going to be going to Women's Care in Lexington, next to Lexington Medical. We are only just beginning this journey! It is going to be a fun one :0) What a blessing God has given us! I am already starting to feel kinda nautious and bloated....I don't know if that part will be fun or not...:0)

Outside Hardy Plank

There are a lot more pictures of the outside but I have not taken any...I thought I had but now I can not find them :0) I will take them next time, and also with the new front door in.