Holmes County Antique Festival 2009

Can't believe it was time for the Antique Festival again! I worked on Sat. and so Hall's kept Avery and then after work we watched the Fireman's parade.





Here they come!


It was so loud!

Baby Miley

Then Sunday was the Grand Parade.....it was chilly but NO rain....thank goodness.

Anticipation :)

Score!

Collecting her candy.

Stashing it away. Too much candy!

Finishing out the parade riding with Pop-Pop. Avery enjoyed the parade.

I love Fall!

Play Time

Today Stacy and Brianna Mishler invited us over for lunch and play time :) The girls enjoyed each other and the mommy's enjoyed seeing each other even more :) My camera died so I didn't get many pictures :( Avery also enjoyed their dog, Joey. Thanks again Stacy for lunch and having us over!!



Brianna (she was a year on July 18th).


Hugs! On the way home I was trying to keep Avery awake and she said "mommy I don't want to talk anymore!". ha.ha. That's a first!

Then last night Mimi was wallpapering our bathroom at the rental and I was semi helping so the boys were entertaining Avery. They had her giggling!

Fall Photo Shoot Take 1.........

Josh and Janna's cousin and her little man were home from CA and we finally got the kiddo's together for same playtime.



Then Mimi had a vision.....well we didn't get the pose she wanted but we got some cute ones on an impulse photo shoot:

Big hill climb!!! Feel the burn!!!

Kason was tired and obviously hungry :)

Messing around on picnik.com

Singing songs and doing the motions.

Miss A!

Rental House ~ Before and After!

This is our rental and I apologize for not having too many before pictures. I was going through a rough time in our life and just didn't care about the rental house plus with the smell and fumes over there it was too overwhelming for me. The couple who owned it smoked in there for 54 years!!!! YUCK!

Josh and his buddy, Mark Moore did an AWESOME job fixing it up with some help from Pa Proper and Jason Peterson! We had to hire out (besides Mark) a plumber to put in a shower and fan, a painter to paint the ceilings since the tar was bleeding through anything Josh painted and to lay the carpet...other than that Josh and Mark did all the work....Josh re-did the hardwood floors and Mark was jack of all trades he did the flooring in the kitchen, entry way and bathroom and the guys even installed the new windows themselves and did some wiring! It turned out better than I thought it would.


The new flooring in the kitchen. Nasty carpet was in there before.


This is one of the walls before we painted. Can you see the outline of the cross?


The dining room before...........


Avery LOVED to paint and "supervise" the boys ;)


Josh sanding the hardwood floors (Mark helped with that too)! They were in AWESOME shape!


Dining room after.


The nasty carpet that was downstairs......you can see at one point it was nice.


The living room after they painted and ripped the carpet out.

Living room after.

The new flooring in the entry way.

The entryway. Mark and Josh in action. They made a great team!

The entry way after.

The stairs with the carpet ripped off.....

The stairs after then new carpet.

The hallway after they painted and ripped the carpet out....


The hallway finished.

Bedroom #1 halfway painted.....

Bedroom #1 finished.

Bedroom #2 before.


Bedroom #2 finished.


Bedroom #3 finished....all bedrooms got painted, new carpet, new light fixtures and windows.

The lovely pink bathroom before....


Bathroom after.

The lovely wallpaper in the bathroom (thank goodness that was the ONLY wall that had wallpaper on it!

My awesome mother-in-law put up new wallpaper left over from our house ;)

The NASTY carpet.... the carpet on top was in bedroom #3.

Old light fixture.....

New light fixtures....replaced 2 of them.

I got the job of cleaning (except the kitchen Julia did that! Thanks again!) We have a few little things to do yet but are ready for renters. Let us know if anyone needs a house to rent. Thanks!

These shoes are made for dancing....

I was getting out Avery's clothes for tomorrow and she spied her "new" shoes (they are used but new to her ;) and said "Oh mommy thank you for my new dancing shoes!".......she cracks me up!