This is Mallory, God brought her into my life a few years ago. She's been a blessing in my life.
Lili enjoyed walking up and down the sidewalks yelling out crazy and hilarious noises. She had alot of fun, I think she was the loudest kid on the street .
Emma and Maggie heading to get some goodies!
She was a cute tiger
I'm not sure whose steps these are, but their house was decorated so nice, I'm sure they wouldn't mind us using it as a backdrop!
Finally, Lili had to ride in the stroller, I think Daddy was getting a little tired of carrying her and keeping her out of the street :)As we began to add on to the other side of the house, we noticed that alot of the wood on the roof had water damage. When the previous owner had the tin roof installed, their were several places where flashing was not installed, thus the water damage. Here are a few pictures to show you the extent of the damage.
Thankfully, the entire roof isn't damaged and the tin was reusable. Reroofing the house isn't necessarily on our list right now, we've got plenty of other things that need to be done. However, we will have to make some repairs on the roof in other places. But nothing too major.
This door we added, it will be an exit from our master bedroom to the porch.
We removed most of the plants from the front so you can get a better idea of what we're doing. We still have a few windows to replace.This week, Mike has started tearing out closets and removing our stairwell. We originally planned to keep the stairs and just remove the wall that went down the center of them, but the wall cuts THROUGH the stairs as well, so we are rebuilding the stairwell and actually are going to turn it in the other direction. This will make the stairwell access from the living area instead of the kitchen/dining area which will work better with the floor plan.
These two pictures are showing the closet that was once under the stairwell, we were going to convert that into a 1/2 bath but now the bath will be on the other side of the stairwell. This will actually convert to the stair landing now.
View below is from the backside of the stairwell looking through.
And he did all this in one night! What a hard worker!
It was such a muddy day, but at least the rain held off for us!
Lili's little pun'kin!
Being a rule breaker I guess! I didn't even see that sign til I got home and edited these pictures, maybe I should invest in some glasses?
I thought this one was hilarious! Riding on the corn train!
My precious mom and dad made the trip just as they do every year. It's our special tradition :)
What a beautiful girl.....
and my sweet Lili........she loved swinging with her daddy.
Pumpkin house
Nanny and Pawpaw :)
Happy Harvest!Our tenants recently moved out, left their side of the house in decent condition. But, they owned several CATS, so you can imagine what we were left with.......needless to say, we will be heavily cleaning with Clorox and anything else that will help with odor removal. I know once the flooring is sanded and the walls are primed and painted that will help too.
These are pics of the upstairs bedrooms on the tenant side. Above, you can see some of the bead board sagging from water damage, this will be replaced :( .......ahhh, the ins and outs of renovations!
The wood floors upstairs on both sides are in good shape, so they will be refinished!
Above is a picture of the tenant side kitchen. This house was originally built by a cotton mill to house its workers, it has been a duplex from the day it was built. This kitchen floor has alot of damage underneath, so we will replace the floor and sub floor. We are planning to turn this into our office.
