Whats your BRANDOM: Home Progress-Outside

Many of you have been asking for updates on our home...so here you are, well at least an update on the outside. We thank you for the support and thank you for your patience with my blogging as we tackle this HUGE endeavor!

These before photos really make me question what the ##^$* we were thinking!!! When we first bought our home back in April, spring had not yet, sprung! Little did we know the amount of foliage Spring and Summer would bring. We were working hard on demoing the inside of our home, and we were feeling accomplished. We were finally finishing the demoing inside of our home (which also ended up taking on a life of it's own), and we were ready to move forward. To our disappointment, the progress we had made on the inside, was only greeter by an overwhelming amount of discouragement by the appearance of the outside of our home. The foliage was so bad and critters like mice and snakes were trying to use our yard has their home. Just mowing, clearly, was no longer going to cut it!

So, we scheduled one day with about 8 of our family members and tackled that yard! There was no way we could continue to show up to do work there and be greeted by that mess, it was so disheartening. The day our families united to take on this yard will forever be a day I remember. We had about six chainsaws on hand and the guys were ready to take trees and brushes out! It was so crazy! I took sooo many before and after pictures, that day. Once we started no one wanted to leave until it was done! It was instant gratification at it's finest and everyone was loving it.

While, this whole foliage obstacle was being tackled there was no resting in the evenings. We were diligently working on all the details, which in turn brought more excitement. We FINALLY finalizing floorplans, and the color of the siding of our home.

Shortly after that, we were watching, Osborn Renovations, work day in and day out at our house...that was actually starting to resemble a home! They were installing new siding, new windows, new doors and, new framework for our floorplan! We felt completely grateful to have these resources to help us, with these next steps. We still have a very long way to go...and a lot more work to do- but like I said every step feels like a big step!