This past fall, Jeremy and I built a 24×24 garage. Yup. From the ground up. That included taking out a couple of trees (One by ourselves and the other we brought in professionals). We did everything ourselves except for the concrete foundation and slab and the door installation. Once the garage was up we could finally get rid of the ugly little red shed that was rotting and contained mice nests and tons of spider egg sacks.

I have lots pictures and such, but with finishing up my masters, actually building the garage, shooting weddings with the lovely Mandy Sroka and then the holidays, I just haven’t had a chance to get them up. Jeremy has put up some updates on his website, lots of photos in his gallery, and the complete story including comments from the peanut gallery can be viewed here at the garage journal.

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So four months ago, on Friday, March 13th, 2009,  Jeremy and I sat in a little conference room with a basket of pens and another of little candies in front of us. Trent was sitting across from us as he and Jeremy were munching on some fresh chocolate chip cookies, while I sipped some tea. There was another guy there. We made small talk as we waited for a fifth guy, Sean who was scuttling in and out of the conference room with various papers. Occaisionally he would put four of five copies of a paper in front of Jeremy and I, and we would sign them. Sometimes he would hand something to the other guy or to Trent. We asked a few questions, but had already sorted most of the stuff out, so there weren’t really any questions left. Sean finally comes back and says ‘that’s it, you can go now.’

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I have a huge dilemma and I need your help! I am calling out to all those on the vast internet in search of your opinion. You, yes you right there. Don’t you dare leave this page with out giving me your two cents!

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I know I am so slow putting up posts about the updates in my house. Sorry, it is just so hard to paint, hold the camera for pictures and blog about it at the same time! So I will slowly be adding in our renovation stories as I find time. Here is a small improvement that Jeremy added just for me somewhat recently that I really enjoy!

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So apparently I am not good at taking pictures of the insides of houses. Hopefully I will get better, but here is a pretty comprehensive ‘before’ tour of my lovely new home. I can’t seem to get the colors to come out just right. For example, the living room and kitchen, think TEAL. Yes, TEAL.

I will go into detail about all the work that we have put into this place so far and focus on each different room is subsequent posts. This post is just to show you around.

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So my husband and I bought our first home in March of this year.  It’s an older colonial and we love it! We initially were looking at ranchers and townhomes, but this house had so much potential and so many pluses that we couldn’t turn it down. (Especially after bargaining the price a bit!)

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As of a little over an hour ago, Jeremy and I are homeowners!! WOOHOO! Thus, if you are looking for us, we will be over there cleaning and painting and fixing little odds and ends. Come on over if you want to help!

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We are finally doing it! My husband and I are buying a house. We have been looking around for a while and we finally found one in a good location, in good shape and for a decent price!

As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
-Joshua 24:15b

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I don’t know when, or where, but it will be this year, and it will be in this area.