We moved into the house over Thanksgiving on top of having both of our families and some friends coming for the holiday. Despite having a great time with everyone who came I wouldn't recommend this level of stress for any body. The meal and the move went off with out really any real problems though, despite some hardships getting the bed up the stairwell. Christmas and Hanukkah were less stressful with a few friends coming to town to visit and stay with us. The goal was to get back in action after the new year, but it was so nice to not working on the house we decided to blend back in a few of our old hobbies (mainly brewing beer and cooking) instead of getting back to major projects. That is not to say we haven't done anything around the house for three months, it has just been at a much slower pace, and a calmer nature. We have more or less just been putting out fires here and there that come from new construction on old houses and making the rough edges disappear. So any given week there will be more cupboards here, or a new table there, or door knobs on the bathrooms. Other than finishing up the detail work (hopefully we will have everything "done" by mid summer) things are going pretty well for us right now. Amber has a great job working for the Center for Michigan and recently graduated from GVSU with a masters in public administration, and I am going back to grad school this fall at MSU to pursue a masters in business administration and was recently awarded "young engineer of the year", by MSPE. The next projects are more dictated by the weather than anything else, we don't particularly want to do a lot of varnishing or painting when we cant have all the windows open, so instead we are planning to rough frame in some bedroom closets and some pantry storage.
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| Amber working at the counter |
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| House Warming Gift from Dennis and Lois |
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| Kitchen Island in use |
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| Winter snow storm |
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| Snow Storm |
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| Cabin Fever |
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| Looking out the side window |
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| Looking out the back window |
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| Our back lot |
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| Chess muppeting around |
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| Dining table and chairs |
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| Entry way |
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| Bathroom Door handles |
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| Chess Holding Down the furniture |
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| Checkers |
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| All Lit up |
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| Festive Assortment |
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| Chess holding down a different piece of furniture |
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| Light shining in |
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| Frame for upstairs closet |
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| Frame for upstairs closet |
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| Entry way |
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| Brewing beer |
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| Young engineer of the year |
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