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After a super busy weekend we spent part of Sunday hard at work adding a little charm to the front of the house. This project has including a lot of pointing, laughing, drawing, "discussions" oh, and one fall off the roof. It also included a lot of learning. Jeff designed and had the Corbels custom made. You can't tell yet, but they are going to look great!

Abe and Gus were pretty entertained by all of the commotion.

Front Entry before (you can't really tell but the

original overhang is this odd metal contraption)

In progress

Calling it a day, the front entry for now.

We snap quick pick tonight, while chatting about all

of the work still yet to be started!

Rock the Vote

It's time for a a little audience participation! Jeff and I are tyring to narrow down some house colors and we are taking your votes! The three choices are: Restful, Simply Sage and Beach Glass.

See poll on the right side of this page or post a comment below, send me an email, a text or give me a ring.

EVERYONE is welcome to participate, you know who you are...yes, you! Vote!

Let there be light!

We spent part of Saturday working to install french doors in the master bedroom. We are still working on some other big projects so once the doors were on we hit pause and moved on to some serious planning. Below are a few pics I snapped on Saturday.

The (inside) before shot

The (outside) before shot

Bear had a great view of the action.

Jeff worked so hard in the HOT sun!

And inside the HOT room.

In progress (outside). Look at that mess!

Outside - for now... 

Abe's 1st Birthday

A very belated post and not related to the disaster we are calling home these days but SO worth a mention! We had a small family lunch to celebrate Abe's first birthday.

Friends mark your calendar - we will celebrate year number two with a big party (without a sea of rusty nails littering the lawn, in a painted house, with absolutely no hazardous tools or dust bunnies in sight)!

The Birthday Boy

You call that scaffolding??

We had a very busy weekend! One of the highlights today (?) was the start of our siding project. Jeff is a siding snob (yes, there is such a thing) so we are removing the vinyl siding and will either replace with all new, or try to salvage (that's the technical term - see post on our newly accredited LEED professional) what is underneath. Things got a little tense when Jeff was trying to convince me that working 15 feet above the ground on a wacky jerky herky (a technical term, coined by accredited wives in distress) was safe and sane. Note he said it was both safe AND sane. Any way, after he broke out the climbing equipment and roped up, I felt better and the neighbors stopped staring. We still have a ton of work to do! Stay tuned for some more paint trauma...

I took a photo just in case I had to explain it to the life insurance agent.

This little guy sporting his safety glasses cheered us on.

2 down 12 to go

Our most recent house project has been to replace our windows. We have started just in time for the sunny weather and while we may have lost a little bit of charm, there were only two windows in the house that would actually open! So we have two out of the twelve installed and so far only minimal broken glass.

The handy man hard at work on the windows before.

The semi finished windows. Still working on the trim

and a bit of cleaning.

Savannah, Charleston & Hilton Head

We are back from a quick trip to Savannah for my step sister Jessica's wedding. It was a perfectly southern wedding and of course I forgot my camera and have not one picture of the beautiful bride or the gorgeous setting and the food (the reception was held at the Pink House - delicious!). We also spent a few days in Charleston (L-O-V-E-D it!), then ended the trip at Hilton Head to visit my Mom and Phil (a perfect ending because they spoiled us). Below are a few random pics of our trip. Enjoy!

We were able to catch some of the World Cup games, however the viewing experience was very different with a baby in tow

The heat was a bit much for Bear the first day, but he was such a trooper.

I could fill pages with random architecture, house pics and us lounging in the shady squares - I didn't want to bore you but still had to squeeze in one

We ate some fabulous food...again the experience was just very different with Abe along for the ride

Bear spent most of his time in restaurants flirting with the waitresses and other diners, which would have been great but he discovered his tongue...it was boarder line obscene.

The obligatory family pic

I was running out of sun light so these pics don't do it justice, but Bear LOVED the ocean.

Neither one of them wanted to get out of the water.