Its beginning to look a lot like...

A living room!

He is a mostly finished version of what our front room/living room is looking like these days :) Charlie worked very hard over the last 3 days (along with much appreciated help from my dad, Chuck, and my brother) to get us this far. This is a view from the front door. The furniture is in an awkard arrangement, but we had to make room for the Christmas tree to go up. The red wall is not decorated yet, but we do have the things to go on it. Also as you can see, the fan is missing its shade... thank you Lowe's for giving us a shattered one. This si a view from the kitchen/dining room. We still need to get our curtians up. The empty corner is where the Christmas tree will be going.

Remodeling Continues

New cabinets on the new half wall! We LOVE them!!!

Stairway to basement! I have waited so long for steps to our basement!!! Before this week anytime we wanted to go to the basement, we would have to walk out into the garage and down the garage steps into the basement. This used to be our old bathroom (that white little square you can see on the wall is the old toilet paper holder) I will post before and after pics as the progress continues.
On the open half wall you see directly infront of this picture, we are having cabinets for storage put there. Also al of those pieces of wood to the left is now a closet, but I didn't take that picture yet to show it "finished".

Not Working

For some strange reason my updates/new postings to Avie's Adventures are not showing up on other blogs. It is still showing my last update as being "Trick or Treat: Our Chick" on other blogger's blogs. Does this make sense?!

For example: on Parker Loomis' blog under the "blogging friends" thingy where you can link to Avie's Adventures it still says:
Avie's Adventures
Trick or Treat: Our Chick

When in reality I have updated her blog 2 x's since then with a "Living room remodeling" and with "Miracle on Main Street".

Anyone know why? HELP ME!

Miracle on Main Street

The gang: Sam Carter, Parker Loomis, Avington and Emma Shrek Don't they all look so serious?!
Papaw, Avie and Roudlph
Watching the band
Camden Ann looking so pretty in her red christmas coat

She wasn't too thrilled the Roudlph tried to touch her

In the sled watching Frosty the snowman

Frosty, Mamaw and Avie

Livng room remodeling

The living room remodel is under way! I appologize for not having pictures before the panneling was ripped off, but you should still get the idea. The first picture is the wall that was dividing our kitchen/dining room from our living room This is a picture from our front door with the majority of the wall ripped out. We are leaving the section on the right with the 2x4s because we have to put our refridgerator there.
Here is the layout with the wood

And here are some pictures of how it currently looks! We really think it gives us a much more open feel. The fridge will go on the empty part of the wall close to the door.

View from front door.

Charlie, my dad and Charlie's dad have worked very hard on this project. Thank you thank you thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all of your help!