Little house in Shelby

So now I finally got water into the house.  Spring of 2013.   Had to did up the old lead pipe.  

These are some before and after pictures of my tile job.  It's the first time I tiled and it wasn't too bad!

Nice and deep so nothing freezes!

Still needs a stove and I'm going to tile a back splash.  Of course it would be nice to have running water first!

The wall is a mint green, with the white trim, it looks real pretty.

The hall cabinet is not hung yet.  Once it's up I will move the toaster, coffee pot, over there.

The living room.  The wall you see here was added on.  When bought the place this looked like an old storage shed.  I tore down a wall between kitchen and living room and added this wall to make a small bedroom.

Door straight ahead is bedroom door and to the right is a little bathroom .

This is a pull down stair.  The attic had a little opening in the bathroom before,  so I moved it and  when you pull this down it's a  pretty nice stair ladder.  The attic is huge.  20' x 20' with a board floor.  NO insulation!  Well I put some in, but I'm really looking forward to getting some blown in.  How did people live in Shelby MT without insulation!  I can't imagine.

This bedroom has not been worked on yet.  Except for adding a door, so you don't have to go through the bathroom to get in to it anymore.

These are "before or in progress" pictures of living, bedroom

This is one of the basement walls.  A scary foundation!

basement walls in one closet.   There is some foundation, but I dont' think it all has a  foundation.  We did add some extra supports just in case!

When I bought the place it had one long bathroom.  You had to walk through the bathroom to get to the bedoom..  there was a huge heavy green tub, Gross sink, and old cabinets.  The wall had an extra wall.  Just empty space, with no insulation still!  So I ripped it all out and made it into two bathrooms.  One is full and one is half.  

I added this back door. 

The bedroom closet.  This was an old entrance.  It not only had no insulation, but the walls had no studs either.  So we had to start with building a stud wall, insulating and then drywall.  What a transformation!

ceiling in the bedroom

This is a before picture of the kitchen.

beautiful new floor

That is tea.  I drink a lot of herbal teas!  

Meat in the freezer

Both Mark and James got a deer this year.  Last year Mark's meat was so good!  We ground it with a bit of bacon and it made the best burgers ever!
This year they want to make a bunch of Jerky too.

Ellena's birthday

Ellena at 2

Letting off ballons to Emmalin and Ellianna

Monica and James' birthday

Spring and Summer 2012

Mark and Paul at 8th grade graduation

Mrs Patton: Mark's teacher for 7 yrs!

Elina and Mishael

Lynette

Kendra

Our home; if you look close you can see my midwifery sign.  At this time we made a birth room above the garage.  Jacuzzi tub all tiled.  It's very pretty!

Monica and Eliza

Eliza and Grandma

Elina, 2 yrs old

Gina and baby Wesley

Mark at his recital

Joe, Eric, Shawn, Mark, James, Lynette, Kendra, Monica

Tiffany and Joe

Monica and Mom

Grandma holding Shawn, overlooking the Columbia River

 Mark 14 yrs

Mark and Kendra 14 yrs old

James; he has always had very bright blue eyes!

Mark holding Shawn

Amish Auction: Martha and I had a booth.  Martha selling books and I sold Vitamins and talked with people about midwifery.  It was a cold spring day.

A few pictures

 I'm afraid this is a very typical picture of me on the phone!  Between rental business, midwifery and a large family, I spend lots of time on the phone!

My youngest 2 boys are now taller then me.  Even my grandchildren are taller then me!

Visiting a college!  Monica and Mark getting ready.  This one is a Christian college.  Can they get enough scholarships?

James 13 yrs old, notice how every hair is in place!

Mothers Day 2012

 Mothers day was a very beautiful day.  All the mothers were served a beautiful steak dinner.  The kids all pulled together and bought me a new Kitchen aid mixer. 

This was a beautiful card from my wonderful parents in law.

Paul

Joe, David and Kip cooking steak

Hans

Salad, couldn't have been better at the best restaurant

Lee

Gina

Miriam

Martha

Prevent class

So Mishael and I joined a class called "prevent".   The idea is to prevent diabetes. It's a whole year long.  The 1st 16 weeks, you go to class every week, weigh in and turn in these little yellow books.  Each book you see here is every bite I ate for 16 weeks!
The motto you learn the 1st week is: "you bite it, you write it"  So for 16 weeks I wrote down every bite I took.  We wrote down how much fat and calories were in each item also.
It was very interesting.
I didn't loose more then a few pounds even though I always ate less then 1500 calories per day and less then 40 grams of fat.  But it was fun to be exact and figure it all out.
Also we promised we would exercise at least 150 minutes a week.  This was an eye opener.  I thought I exercised at least that.  Well I was surprised how hard it was to get to 150 minutes a week.  Towards the end 170 minutes was typical. 
For a while Mishael really got into the exercise and even did a run to raise money for a cause.