The Missionary

Big Rapids apartment

Feb. 2nd

Feb. 28th.

April 21st. Elder Meldrum & Elder Ecklund

Chad was transferred to Oscoda, Michigan. July 10th.

The saga continues...

First things first...

Isn't she so cute?

If you don't know Chloe Loves Grandpa Best.

Here she can watch him work.

Well as it always happens...

This was not the plan.

My shower leaks so I need a new one.

more $$$$$.

The Garage floor walls are almost all up.

you can see where I will be driving into the garage here...
The back wall of the garage.
Eric taking the subfloor out to re-arrange plumbing in the master bath.

More Progress...

This is much more stressful than I thought it would be...

Guess what happend Monday?

You guessed it Delivery day!

The French door is in!

I have drywall around my bedroom door.

There is no more hall closet. It is now been absorbed

into my new master bath!

I got 1 Wall up today.

The studs on the wall between these rooms will come down tomorrow

My big master bath is getting closer all the time!
I love progress!

Can you say Chaos?

Blake and Eric off to scout camp for a week!
Merit badges here we come!

Area # 1 Outside deck is on hold for a week.

But remodeling resumes...

(above) Area #2 Master Bedroom
This is the beginning of my new closet.

Area # 2 New Addition (Garage & Family Room)

Bucky the builder framing for the footings...

The cement truck (YIPPEE!)

Brad the cement pumper.
Pumping into the footing forms.


Footings drying...

Framing for walls.
Cement is poured for walls.


Everytime the cement truck came I had them give me a
wheelbarrow full of cement and I worked on the pavers in the front of the house.

Area #4 Living room

Jared found out we were going to take

this area of the wall out

and decided he would like to throw hammers, and screw drivers at it.

Chelsey decided to join him.

Area #5 (New bedroom)

Now when you go downstairs you can go left into a bedroom

or right into the hallway.
Here is the framing for the new bedroom.

Back to the Master bedroom...
Here is the wall between the office and the master bedroom.

Sheet Rock is gone.

Eric taking the framing down.

The wall is gone now and our room is bigger! Area #5 Master bathroom.

This is my old closet being taken apart to create a larger master bath.

Outside is a Mess.

So while Blake had fun at scout camp with his dad for a week.

It seems it took all his energy...

So we had a busy week both at camp and at home!

July 5th

Blake, Chelsey, Jared, Andrew, Amy, Eric, Chloe & Ronnie.
Chloe was being goofy! She is so fun!

Remodel plans

I have to tell you that the remodeling plans require some times little tweaks of my house and other times large tweaks. We removed the old deck of our house and thought we would be fine with out a deck. Then realized when summer came that we want a deck. So we took the side of our house that made the most sense to have a deck, and began working in that area. We never used this side of the house at all...

above you can see the beams from our old deck.

This photo you can see the beams from the New deck! This is a medium tweak! Eric worked very hard on this the 2nd & 3rd of July. He is leaving for Scout camp monday morning.

Remodeling Day 1

Here Bob is moving the cement from our old Patio.

The Foundation has been excavated!

Guess who likes Cherries?