Joe's Concert tonight! I thought he was so cute!

Well we are done with our contractor. He's fulfilled his contract. We asked him to widen the door but he didn't have time. He said call him in three weeks. David and I decided we could do it ourselves or David decided he could do it himself. We had a little difficulty the first day. But it's nothing we can't fix.

David installed the micro-hood. It's works great!
See my new clock! Shelly helped me pick it out. I love it!!!

And my new LAUGH sign!

David bought all the wood to finish the foot boards!

Home Coming 2009!

This week was PHS Homecoming week. The festivities started Wednesday night with mudwars, Joe didn't get too muddy. Thursday Homecoming Assembly followed by the big game that night.

Friday we started out at a reception at the Art Center in the Bamboo room, for the court, escorts and parents. It was alot of fun with good people, food and lots and lots of pictures. Then off to Hamley's for dinner and then to the dance.

After the dance a large group of great kids went to Presidetn Wood's house for more fun and food.

The big Hunt

Joe got a deer tonight. Sam got his first deer Saturday but they didn't have the camera. Joe took a few with his cell phone. Congratulations boys!

Guess who got their liscense?

Yes he is now legal! He even is going to go to Homecoming (first date)!

These are our two new babies. Well we've had them all summer. Ginger on the left and Babyface on the right. they're pretty fun!

Things are looking up!!!

This week I got my floor fixed, my range fixed, crown molding, and my arch over my window. My new cupboard doors should be here next week. Yeah!! A much better week than last week.

Update!!!!

good and bad!

I am cooking in my kitchen!

I have a dishwasher!

I have a sink and a garbage disposal!

I have a broken window on my stove and my ovens don't work!

And I have a beautiful spot on my brand new floor. Thanks to the friendly plumber!

But I still love my new kitchen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

29 years Wow!

If i've been married for 29 years just how old are we anyway?

I thought I was 29!

Happy Anniversary David!

I have Countertops!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think I like them especially the high definition texture!

I found this plate and placemat at Shopko. I thought I was done with blue. But I just can't help myself. And don't worry rooster Basher's across America if I use this plate it will probably be the only rooster in my kitchen. I just loved the colors especially the teal blue or turquoise.

We hope to install the stove sometime this weekend if David can squeeze it in.

The plumber is coming Tuesday to install the sink and dishwasher. David is busy on the farm so I'm just going to get it done. Then I'll be back in business.

My Baby Girl turned 20 years old!

Ashley Spratling was born September 8, 1989 @ 5:30 AM She was 10lbs 2 ozs. And just as beautiful as could be. She still is!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Ashley!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Summer Vacation

Last weekend we went down to Nick and Sarah's for our last little break before returning to school. We had a wonderful visit. We shopped till we dropped. Which doesn't take much.

Saturday we went to the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, OREGON. All I can say is WOW! It was wonderful we were there for 6 hours and could have spent more time. It was definately worth our time and money. What a beautiful facility!

They have a 747 just parked. You can walk under it climb on it. (At least there wasn't a sign saying you couldn't).

Nick and Joe were trying to figure out how the wheels fit up inside of the plane. Here's Sam getting sucked into the engine!

Great Weekend and visit with Nick and Sarah!

My Ashley left us yesterday to return to School. It was sad to see her go, I enjoyed having another women in the house. I'm going to miss her. Now it's back to just me and the boys.

Before Ashley went back to school she wanted us to go and get a pedicure.

So last Thursday Ashley, Carla and I went to Pendleton Nails and got our first pedicure. They had these wonderful massage chairs with foot spas. When we were all done we all felt sooo! pampered. Then we went out to dinner. We decided we needed to make this a Spratling family tradition.

Not so wonderful looking but it felt great! Looks like I could use a wax job too!

I'm looking forward to a wonderful school year. This was my first week back to work. To tell the truth I was dreading it. I felt like I didn't have a break this summer. But to my delight it was a great week. I got lots of rejuvinating hugs from lots of wonderful kids. It's so fun to see them grow. My first group of 2nd graders are now 5th graders and my kinders are now in 3rd grade which I get to work with them again. Many of them couldn't read or even identify their ABC's. Now they are wonderful readers. I work with lots of wonderful people and that makes all the difference in the world.

Progress?

August 16th was my last post and PROGRESS has been S L OW!!!!!!!!!!!! But things are looking up. Dennis has done all that he can do for now with the electrical. Thanks Dennis!


The progress made in 21 days: Countertop decking, electrical outlets and switches (They work too!). And the sofit above the fridge got finished.


Tuesday they are suppose to finish my counter tops YEA!!! Once they do that we can finish up the plumbing. Intall the dishwasher and stove. We could be back in business if all goes well by the weekend. Then Tim our carpenter can finish all the trim. David is going to do the baseboards. That probably won't happen till after they are done planting grain. So maybe by Christmas? Of course when everyone is done I'll have more touch up painting to do.

I still love my floor and the paint. I'm a little dissappointed with the cabinets. When they unpackaged the cabinets the tape used to keep the doors closed ripped off the finish. So all the yellow sticky notes you see indicate that that door needs to be replaced. Of course they said they've never seen that happen before. Just the luck of the draw. I'm just one in a million. Should I be flattered?

More Progress!

Progress!

Our contractor will be back Saturday and hopefully get alot more done. He and his son came last night after work and worked for about 3 hours to get this much done.

This is my counter top Wilsonart HD Desert passage. It looks darker than the picture. But I like it.

Here is my new beautiful floor. I hope I made the right decision! I think it goes nicely with the paint.

Tomorrow afternoon they are coming to install the cabinets! I'm excited and not excited! One reason is I still don't have a counter top. Oh well who needs one of those anyway!

Harvest!

This is the first year Sam has worked all day harvest. He is the new stubble buster. Joe graduated to truck driver.
We had about 8 hours of harvest left and it rained, about and 1 1/2 inches. It was actually a blessing in a big way for me. David was able to help me paint the kitchen Saturday. We painted all day! I couldn't have done it by myself.

Paint Paint Paint.....

We tried about 15 different colors. I picked the bottom 2 colors on the left.

Country cream and Ivoire

We painted this room with country cream This picture is more true to life.

This is the Country Cream it looks lighter than it is.

There are the two different colors in the picture. the back splash on the back wall is Country Cottage and the sidewall and the soffits are Ivoire. But this looks really light in the picture it's actually quite dark to me.

Tomorrow they will work on the floor. Hopefully by Wednesday they can start installing the cabinets.

more with our unpacked junk

More pictures of Ben & Cindy's house

Laundry room which leads to garage

The girl's bathroom

Living room shot with some of our unpacked junk

Another living room shot, door to the right leads to the master bedroom

The girls bathroom again

Girl's room

Here's a few pictures of our new home. We have been trying to get some video, but it's not working. We'll keep trying. Guess you guys will just have to come visit us! Love you and miss you ~Ben and Cindy

Don't you love the blue. How about all that lath and plaster?

Tomorrow they will finish the sheet rocking and tape it. Dennis is coming back after work to work on the sink area, hopefully he will be all done by Tuesday. I'll probably be painting this week. I ordered my floor, it should be here this week. Our cabinets will be here this week also. When the painting is done and the floor is in then they can install the cabinets. The floor will probably hold us up I still have to decide if I'm going to put in a new sub floor or not and possibly underfloor heating in the little nook. Oh decisions! decisions!

Saturday Dennis came out and worked for 8 hours doing his magic. He rewired the stove and office area. With lots of new updates. I'm pretty excited. Thanks Dennis!

demo day

Ok here's a video of demo day that was Monday.

First we took the stove apart as much as we could. Then we took off the door molding and found this lovely notch in the door. That was how they got this beast in here. We were so grateful to not have to tear out a wall.

We pushed it through the living room (it has wheels). Took the sliding door out and the supports, then used plywood to get it through the door and down the steps of the deck. Once we got it to the lawn we used the plywood to roll it to the driveway. David and Andy hooked it up to the bucket of the tractor and took it for a ride to the shop where it is awaiting a new home. Anyone interested?