paint is on and tile is in (enough to move in) !!!!!

these are the latest pictures as of today:

this is looking into our bedroom with the closet door on right and bathroom on left-all tile is done in the 3 rooms

our living room with the wood looking tile that will be in most of the house

our new bathroom

the wood/tile floor up close

our primed bedroom with new ceiling fan

our finished textured bedroom

the texture up close

the painted bathroom -its a little bit darker then it looks in the picture

Our new job

   So we had a meeting this week with our new employers and found out for sure about our new job. we are going to be working together in a food trailer. this food trailer is on a construction site way out in the middle of no where. the construction company asked to have the trailer for the workers since they would have to drive 10 minutes just to get a drink. one of my dad's contacts will be our employer who will be supplying us and have the permits already. we will be working just the two of us monday thru friday 6a.m.-2p.m. and be paid well. this will enable us to save money and go travel on trips to where the need is great. we should start working i think be end of next week.
   This weekend we are trying to get as much done at the house as possible. dad wants us to be able to have our bedroom, bathroom, closet and living room totally done by end of this week. we are house sitting for two weeks, so we should be able to move into our place when we are done.
    Things are starting to look up. we are glad that after pretty much 2 months of doing nothing but working on the house mostly, we are going to have a routine back and a place of our own after 7 months!
   At the end of the weekend i will post a bunch of updated pictures from the house. i think you will all be very surprised at how different the place looks.

kentucky trip pictures

My apologies for not having written this past or posting pictures. we have been back at it with the house. today i'm just posting mostly from our trip, because i have been bad about taking some updated house pictures.

cruising speed down here

billboards galore

gum anyone?

do you see their driveway? imagine when it rains hard

this is the building my grandparents congregation bought and will remodel sometime in the near future. they are waiting to sell their current one. but they are able to use it for meeting for service since this location is in their territory.

papa earle in front of his place (they live on the second floor)

a bunny was grazing while we sat on the balcony

thor on his cellphone in kentucky

pop and gram earle after breakfast both of us heading out to different places

our drive down to my other grandparents

underground cave

my aunt mim and uncle tim's house

driving uncle paul's 4 wheeler 

uncle paul showing josh how to shoot

 

Road trip anyone?.......

  there has been a need to go visit my grandparents to see them in person and also to retrieve some meat from one of them for my dad. i know that sounds strange but up here in cattle country (Kentucky) you can buy a whole cow, half or quarter and they will slaughter the cow, trim it down and package it into the different cuts (like hamburg or t-bone steaks ect.).

 sine things have been so crazy with our house project we had postponed our first flying trip till this week. it was actually more like a, "hey you think now would be an o.k. time, lets ask grandparents-o.k. we are leaving tomorrow!" 

  so we left wednesday morning at 5 a.m. and drove north. poor Josh has never had to be the one driving on a road trip and so he was not used to long long stretches without cruise control. but he has been a trooper and is o.k. now with the long drives. we made it to my mom's parents house at 7:45 p.m. that night. on thursday we spent some time with my grandparents getting to catch up with them. i also got to see carley (those of you from guam might remember her when she visited me the first year i was there). we got to see her house, which they had a similar situation with remodeling it, but they have been married 2 years so it looks lived in now. carley and her husband tyler invited us to the midnight showing or the avengers and hoped we would come. which we did picture to follow in next post. 

  Friday we awoke a few hours after coming home from the movie and had a lovely breakfast with my grandparents before we were both headed out. they were headed down to a town called Paintsville in Kentucky where the tornadoes had hit. many of the friends needed help with damaged or destroyed homes. a few from my grandparents hall went the weekend before (including carley and tyler) and more were going this weekend with my grandparents. 

  after breakfast we then drove south toward my other grandparents that live in Scottsville Kentucky. we ended up having to take a half highway half back road route to get there since everyone and their mother was going the normal route to the Kentucky derby that was today. but it was so pretty and relaxing on that route and it was nice for josh to see since i told him it reminded me of parts of New Hampshire. we arrived about 4 hours later and got to see my grandparents and my aunt and uncle. it was so nice to catch up with them over grammy's homemade pizza which i haven't had in a long time. 

  this morning they all had their one day assembly so since we had already been in Guam we decided to take a relaxing day to ourselves. it was nice to sleep in and take josh into Bowling green just to see some sights. i also took him to the  amish area near their house to get some good homemade jelly and see some more lovely scenery. we await their return adn a a wonderful family dinner.

  tomarrow the plan is to spend time with them all and then monday morning to head home. i will post pictures and the events of the rest of the trip when we get back.

i do have a question for all my followers and fellow blogers-any suggestions for lay out and design of my page? i have no idea what i'm doing adn haf the time i do change it i get a comment from my mom that it's too complicated.let me know.