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Carey on June 12th, 2011

Isabel has been wanting a purple room ever since the day she could talk! OK not since then but since she’s been out of her crib. So we decided with graduation from Preschool we’d remodel her room! We began with choosing a wall color that was close in color to her existing curtains, bedspread and one that she actually liked. [...]

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Carey on September 11th, 2010

It’s been about a month or two since I’ve updated the family blog. At the beginning of August my Grandmother passed away and Isabel and I traveled back for the funeral. The plan, originally, was for us to stay a week or two and then that all changed after we realized the cost of flights to return [...]

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Carey on June 13th, 2010

We spent two days outside this weekend among some warmer temperature’s with Saturday, being the first time this year over 70 degree’s, getting up to 75 degree’s and Sunday was cloudy but was around 71 degree’s. We decided to re-stain the fence since it’s been 2 years and it was starting to look a little [...]

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Carey on June 12th, 2010

Today we spent the whole afternoon in the garden shop at Lowe’s getting some plants for our backyard. Enjoy! This is called a “Red Prince Weigela” and has rich red flowers (they look pink in the photo but they are red). This shrub grows 6 ft. X 8 ft. and will go nicely along the fence, between [...]

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Carey on May 14th, 2010

Well, we finally got the concrete poured yesterday, after a few days of rain delay and backed up work orders. Enjoy! Looking eastward for the shed. The concrete piled up in the foreground was hauled away the following day. Looking westward into the garbage can area. This area holds all 3 cans, with 2 cans [...]

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Carey on May 5th, 2010

This week we had the same man who poured our patio last spring begin the frame work for a tool shed in the backyard, a smaller pad for the garbage cans along the house and a walkway from that pad to the front of the house. Enjoy! Shed frame looking north. Shed frame looking east. [...]

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