Monday, January 9, 2012

Where in the World??? (have I been?? : )

Oh MY... It has been a LONG time since I posted...                                                
                       You Know... LIFE....
                
                My last post I said that a Baby was coming...
                    well that will happen in just a few weeks..
                            & we are getting excited.  
                                                 

   This past May we put an offer in on a lake house... & what a LONG summer of waiting...It was a re-po & what a LOT of hoops to jump thru & paperwork to finally take possesion, just before Labor day.
      
                                          And Boy was it a M.E.S.S.

                                
        (pic taken as we had started to take off light blue wallpaper off dark, dark paneling )
                    
                Did NOT know how much work this was going to be......
                But it is coming together......
              Getting there.... It now has white crown molding & floor moldings, new carpet & furniture.... pics soon....     
                             
          We have just started staying there...  (We have another place, just a few miles away, so we would work all day & then go back to the other place at night.... It is much nicer being all at one place, while working )
   
   It has 2 floors, each with a kitchen, living room, bedrooms & baths... The top floor is almost completely done & I will be sharing before & afters, soon....
          SOooo that is what I have been doing instead of blogging... : )
     
                   And there was a fair amount of travel.....
            There was a week at Mackinac Island, here in Michigan
                           
                            Another week in Upper Michigan.... 
        giving the Michigan tour to husband's business associates  
                                      Part of Sleeping Bear dunes....
  Yes, voted the most Beautiful place in the US by Good Morning America 

                                Then a trip to Colorado
                   Youngest son & DIL @ Rocky Mountain National park
                 
                 Then the Holidays happened & I did a lot of these again
                                                 
                                                                        
                                                       
                                                   
                                       And some of these
                                                    
                                            +++  The Holidays....
                       SOOooooo.... that is what I have been up to....
                        I have been keeping up with reading blogs,
                          just did not take the time to post myself
      Some of you have even written, asking where I have been & what I
      have been up to....Thanks for asking, It is nice to be missed.