living room tear down–all November 2012

we are slowly but surely redoing this house. from the inside out one room at a time. lets give you a bit of a background information on this house. its well over 100 years old. the main part of the house is so old there's coal dust in the walls and ceiling. our insulation in the walls is shredded news paper and straw. yes that’s what it is. and the walls alone are built the old but sooo very cool tongue and groove style boards. (personally wish we could have refinished it and kept it that way). the floors are REAL hardwood floors. the good stuff…before it was smooth and fancy. (also wish we could keep those, though that’s not looking too good. we will see)

so November my father in law (to be) decides lets tear this place down and remodel. its modern now. sadly the walls aren't the pretty wood id like. but its getting more and more energy efficient as we go along this very long ever going journey.

heres how the living room looked before the tear down. ugly fake wood paneling. that couch is thankfully in the garbage. (also in the process of updating furniture)

see those 2 x 4’s ? THOSE are really 2 x 4’s! not factory cut not smooth. and rock hard!

shot of the ugly wood paneling on the right side of the picture. which is now covered in drywall. the insides? that’s our insulation I told you about. newspaper and straw. and that wall on the other side? that would be our outside wall. if I hit that with a hammer…wed have a whole looking into our driveway! haha

lots of debris…just went onto the plastic on the floor. the walls that once were are out on the front lawn getting ready to be burned.

Cole working on sucking out the insulation with the shop vacuum.

we now have proper pink panther like insulation in our walls and dry wall to make the house look a bit more modern. sorry I don’t have any updated photos but maybe in another post.

it was really a fun day sucking out the old stuff and breaking down the wall with a hammer. honestly wish we could open up the drop ceiling and expose the 10foot ceilings we have. what a wonderful opportunity for an old time cast iron chandelier or some beautiful lighting of some sort. ( ill some day have a very primitive rustic house!!)

who doesn’t love muffins?

especially homemade from scratch muffins with yummy fruit inside them? crazy people.

look at how yummy these are?

look at those cute muffin cups I got. hobby lobby baby!! $1 for 8 during their summer clearance. sweet deals!

the first batch looks yummy! freeze dried blue berries, raspberries and black berries

soooo gooey and yummy. I love homemade from scratch baking

October 28 2012–Earl and his metal detector

Coles work friend Earl came out with his son and their metal detectors to search our yard. I think they all had a pretty good time. lots of different things found from coles family that owned the house. and also stuff that was here before his family. possibly a storage building by the looks of all the padlocks they had found.

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cole followed them around and even had the chance to get to try it out himself!

just a small look at what was found

close up of a “cleaned” out pocket watch.

october 10 20122–new shoes baby!

cole had ordered some new fancy reenacting shoes and when he got them he had to try them on.

october 15 2012–needing a new starter

hadnt even had our car more for than 6 months and it gave out on us. yes it wasn’t a brand new car but for us it was. thankfully we figured out what was the problem. the starter. and it was amazing news when we found out we could fix it ourselves for under $200

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I just had to capture some shots of him working on the car… so hear it is 2 or 3 hours after he got off work we came and fixed the starter.

unfortunately here the current date of january 2 2013 and we need to fix something else like the breaks or something…just never seems to end.

september 4 2012 -- crazy hair dye night

nothing says fun like dying your hair in the middle of the night….outside.

the weekend shannon came down we decided…lets dye our hair. so we did. she gave me a cute blonde split dye job thingy and I touched up her blonde bangs.

we were even killing bugs that we attracted with the smell of hair dye with our farts. yes I just said that. it was so funny

being silly with my pigtail buns of dyed hair.

after we dyed her hair. :)

September 4 2012–Shannon driving

Shannon driving my car

my best friend shannon came down to spend a few days with me while I was on a 4 day break from work. we drove all over the place to go shopping, eat out, terrorize stores and I even let her drive my car.

we had so much fun. she only drove down the back roads and a few other places. she had a lot of fun driving. she even had a lead foot...like me! haha

july 25 2012 -- coles dentist visit

its all known that I hate the dentist when he works on my mouth… whats worse is to watch them work on your loved ones mouth.

cole had to get a wisdom tooth pulled because it was really driving him nuts. too painful for any medication to help. even the numbing stuff the dentist gave him didn’t help till he had given him atleast 6 or 7 shots.

this is the 2nd or 3rd bad tooth problem since ive been with him and its never fun to see him in pain. but I love this picture. he was definitely happy with that numbing medicine.

August 4 2012–coles road sign project

cole found a one way sign in the back of his old car before we ditched it. so he was gonna spruce it up and restore it to hang in out room…somewhere

august 25 2012–busch wildlife shooting range

for dad and joshes birthday they decided to go to the shooting range. I was actually able to make it out for this adventure. it was so much fun. my first time ever shooting a modern gun.

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we had a few of my grandpa Dulaneys guns, a couple muskets, and a matchlock musket that the Schallons brought.

we then went out for chinese food afterwards. the only time I ever get a chance to have chinese is when I can make a trip out to saint louis. it’s a special treat.

 

august 18 2012–bowling for coles birthday

August 2 is actually coles birthday but we went bowling a little late… (after payday)

it was so much fun to play against each other.

hes a pretty darn good bowler…if I say so myself.

round one…as you can see his 37 to my 29

end of round one…HE WON! 109 to my 68

gotta get me an action shot of him winning!

we played so long it turned into COSMO BOWL!

last game of the night. we probably play 6 or so round. unfortunately…this place was not budget friendly after 6 games.

I probably won 1 game to his 5 wins. but it was such an awesome day. rather go bowling during the day then later at night.

July 18 2012– a surprise visit from Randi

I love getting visits from friends. especially surprise visits on your day off. Randi came down for the day and we had a girls day! I love hanging with Randi.

when you live in a house full of boys and a fur baby you really don’t get much time to be girly.

we went all over town looking for a place to eat. finally found a place in Herrin for some authentic Mexican at Sergio's.

really good food! id definitely wanna go again.

the one thing that made it a good day was the largest frozen alcoholic drink we could buy without going over our budget.

 

strawberry daiquiri

then we headed over to see if a friend of hers worked at our rural king. sadly no. so we ventured over to see what animals were in there.

we visited the bunnies! so soft.

june 10 2012–masons baseball game

Mason played another year of baseball. he is such a good team player. he really knows how to hit a ball into the outfield.

mason as the catcher

mason up to bat next!

Papa steve playing with kannyn during the game. she really loves papa steve

my Kannyn Collage

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I love spending time with kannyn. shes so adorable. and to be honest I couldn’t remember when these were taken. so it’s a bunch of them together. shes such a cuties and such a special baby.

photos of her kissing angel. babysitting. her brothers ball games.

June 10 2012—hanging with the boys

I must say that I really love spending time with my nephews.

I got to have them stay the night. we made cookies and watched movies and had some good fun.

me and logan made sugar cookies. and made homemade icing. this one was his…POOP icing, cause it was poop green. haha

showing off his the icing on his cookie.

logan with his chocolate chip cookies. movie time! :)

the next morning it was nice outside and the boys played in the water… I don’t know why in a bucket but they did. and they dipped their fruit roll ups in the water and still ate them. SILLY!

dipping in their fruit roll ups and their new squirt guns we got the day before.

bobbing for their fruit roll ups. LOL

June 16 2012–Ashley and Chris Hubbard

On this lovely summer day, Cole and I had the opportunity to witness coles cousin ashley marry her best friend chris. it was a beautiful ceremony.

the wedding was held outside at the Blue Boar Inn and Tavern. It was a hot day but still a beautiful day for a wedding.

Mason the one on the right was in charge of seating. and Logan was the ring bearer.

Kannyn the flower girl. doesn’t she look adorable?!

had to throw this one in there. Cole wearing the BLUE (instead of usually black) dress shirt I got him for christmas.

this was taken with my sucky camera phone. but this is the happy couple! Congrats Ashley and Chris