Upstairs half bath...and samuel's room...

This is the upstairs half bath. See the closet to the right. It has another one on the other side that is even bigger. I put all of my linens and other stuff in it and it is still not full. I am going to keep this closet empty for my inlaws to put all of their clothes and stuff when they come to live with us for a little while while they look for a house! They will be here on the 24th! I am excited! They have been in Mexico for a few years and we haven't got to see them a lot. I am looking forward to it so much!!! God has given us an opportunity to work in ministry together! I am so excited about that!

This is Samue's room! I am not going to do anything in here until he moves to a big boy bed. Then I will probably decorate it in race cars...or whatever he is showing interest in at the time.
It is a cute little room, just big enough for a baby!









This is the other side to the half bath with the other closet that you can't really see. It streches all the across the whole wall and is about 5 ft deep. Really nice!











This is another pic of the other side! We haven't painted anything upstairs yet. We figured we would just wait until next year and do it little by little.

Living Room...Dining Room

This is the stair well...when you walk in the front door you face the dining room and the stairwell. Off to the right is a hallway. The door that is closed is our full bath. To the right of that is the boys room and to the left a little down the hall is Ellie's room. Upstairs is a very large half bath, the Mastor Bedroom and samuel's room.







This is a view of the dining room and far off the kitchen. As you can see the walls are painted a cappucino color and than I have one red accent wall in the dining room.










This is the living room. I do not have my furniture in yet...but will be getting it soon. I will put up more pictures as I get them.











Here is another shot of my deep chocolate wall. (I love that wall!) It needs to be touched up a little because of some scratches in the paint but other than that it is all done.










Another pic of the dining room....Anyway.... that is the downstairs of our house. The basement has the computer area, play area, family room, and behind a wall the laundry-water heater-furnace-storage room. It is the size of the floor above it. It is nice to have everything down the basement. The upstairs stays more clean that way! I put the pics in three separate posts.....so here are some more...

The Kitchen...

So Here is the messiest part of the kitchen so far but I wanted you to see where we will be putting in my dishwasher tomarrow! YAY! I need one so bad! Do you see that stack of clean dishes...they are from one day!! UGHH! Anyway, we took out two bottom cupboards and put in the little 9" cupboard next to the fridge. We moved the two cabinets to the bottom of the next picture, put in an 8 ft countertop and bought the matching top cabinets. Now I have a very nice buffet and countertop, with more cabinet space and we will be getting a couple stools to go in the middle for an eating place. We haven't painted the kitchen except for the back wall, and we still have to put up our base boards on the bottom but it's coming along.

This is a picture of the new countertop and cabinets where they used to have a table. You can see a little bit of our new wood laminate floor. It looks so nice now that the flooring is all done!












This is the new floor! It looks great and sweeps and mops real nice!












I forgot to tell everyone how God blessed us with practically brand new appliances! We looked on Ebay and found a brand new stove for 200 bucks and a $1600.00 fridge only two years old for 300. I was so greatful for getting such and awesome deal! Here is another pic of the other side if the kitchen.








This is our fridge! IT is so nice and BIG! It has so many compartments and drawers! It even has a drawer with humidity control! We also just got a dishwasher off of ebay for 75 dollars! And...they are all GE! God is Goood!

Kid's Rooms....Bathroom....

So this is the boys room...a Star wars room as you can see! It is very very blue. The wall opposite of this wall is black and I will be painting a mirale of Star Wars on it. Just to start I will be doing the stars and the star wars words on the bottom of the wall. They love their room!








This is the full bath....we have a huge half bath upstairs with 2 huge walk in closets. It is so big I am not sure what to do with all the space. I'm sure once it's completely organized I will figure it out! :)















This is Ellie and Samuel sitting on Ellie's bed while mommy is taking pictures! They are so funny. They just followed me around while I snapped the pics of the house. The boys had gone to the church with Adam, so I had a little lighter load that day!








This is the other wall in the boys room and their cool lamp with the blue light bulbs in it. They are so proud of their lamp and Josiah picked out the blue light bulbs!










This is Ellie's Room! It is very bright and she tells me everyday "Mommy, Ellie room
beautiful!" She is so funny!

Katelyn Ruth.....

I just want to make an announcement to the world! Katelyn Ruth was born on May 8, at around 5:30 or so p.m. She is such a cutie and I am so excited for Adam's sister Esther and her husband Dan. Congratulations!! Anyway here she is!!

PS. I got my digital camera in the mail yesterday!!! YAY! Now I just have to find the plug in cord to the computer which is in a box somewhere or buy a new one so pictures of the house are coming soon!

so this is what it looks like now...

There are two holes in the vinyl flooring. One is huge as you can tell and the other is smaller but right as you walk in. There are a few more dog pee stains than this, but the digital camera ran out. There is about 5 total in every room practically. The carpets are just really dirty and get this....we just found out yesterday that all down the basement stairs they dumped motor oil so now we have to replace the carpet and the vinyl on the steps. I am so frustrated....I'm trying to remain Christian about this but it's hard not to want to get even and make them pay....but I need to correct my attitude and pray for them in return...SO Father....I ask that you bless this couple mightily and help them. There I did it.







So Anyway, the floor needs to be replaced in the kitchen and the steps going down to the basement. The carpet really need to be cleaned and I pray that the stains come out. Everything is primed so all we need to do is paint and clean the carpets before Saturday. Pray that we can get everything done. Love to all! Jess

It's been a while....things are busy..

So here are some pictures of the house...of course these are with the previous owner's stuff in it. It is a little smaller than what we have now...but are hoping to do a few things more to make it work. I am very excited but at the same time frustrated at some things. After we closed on the house we had agreed upon moving in on Monday and the owner could have his garage until Tuesday. Well..Monday came and gone and we couldn't get ahold of the owner all day....finally at 9:00pm our realtor gave us the combination to the lock box and me and a friend went over to see what the problem was. When we got in the house the stench of dog pee was everywhere and all over the nice carpets. All the cupboards were full and all of the closets were filled with junk. There were 2 huge tears in the new laminate flooring and the place was filthy.































so anyway....pray that God will make a way to get new flooring in the kitchen and get the pee out of the carpets with out us spending too much money. love to all...jess

YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!

SO.....Adam and I are buying our first house!!!! God is so amazing and I can't thank Him enough for what He has done for us! We are blessed! We just go the news this afternoon that our bid was excepted! I am in Awe of how He worked the miraculous! Thank you Jesus! All is fine here and I will be putting more pics of the kids up soon! Love to all! Jess

A new website....

So Fire on the Alter has a blog now. It is quite nice and I like it a lot. I have quite a few blogs but not one I can specifically devote to my thoughts on God. So....I've created a new one with just random thoughts and such. It is very similar to blogger so I was able to find my way around. Anyway here is the site.

http://www.fireonthealtar.com/7/livnfrgsus/

See ya guys later!
Jess

The Sleep Over.....

So a week ago my boys had a sleep over with one of their friends from church, Levi. They had so much fun....watched a movie....ate popcorn and camped out in the living room in their star wars tent and sleeping bags! How funny!

My cute boys posing for their momma....

Josiah and Levi wanted to show me their big muscles... so I had to snap a picture!

When the boys fell asleep during the movie...Adam snuck in and took a picture. How sweet!

All four munchkins the morning after. They all decided to play in the tent!

Levi...Ethan...and Josiah... the best of friends!

I forgot the pictures of Samuel.....

I forgot pictures of Sam....isn't he a doll face?

Pictures....Pictures...Pictures....

So I had a post with many many pictures and it's not on here any more. Weird...so I will post again...Adam and I finally got a digital camera so I will be able to catch every precious memory! Here are some random pictures of me and the kids...

I decided to try the camera first myself...my modeling pose...ha! :)

Ellie having fun with mommy...

Pretty girls...

Josiah...my drummer!

Just like mommy....

Ellie getting frustrated because I'm taking too many pictures....

My precious Ethan....

All the kids at uncle johnny's for dinner!