Missionary House and Game Room--We have walls!

 This is looking from the hall in the missionary house into the living room(right side) and kitchen(left side).  The vanity on the left will go in the bathroom, and the stack-able washer/dryer goes in a closet off the kitchen. Our plan is to have a Murphy bunk bed that folds up into the far wall here in the living room to provide two more sleeping spots for guests.

like this Murphy bed!--no we won't have the crab on the visible side.:)

 This is looking from the corner of the living room towards hallway--you can see the bathroom on the left and the door on the right goes into our garage.  There is a private entry door to the left that is not pictured.

 This is the bedroom of the missionary suite(house)...

 This is looking from the bedroom down the hallway.

 This and the one below are the game room pictures...this is above the garage.

They are coming Monday to texture.  We picked out the carpet for the game room and the paint, but still haven't picked colors for the missionary house.  We are so excited to have this started!

More on the house...

Party with the Cammacks and Berries--means a clean casa!

 our room

 our sitting room

 our bathroom

 The Lego part of the boy's room

 The bunk beds...the girls slept on the mattresses below when we had my parents over--hence the girly colors below the bed.

 We had our friends--The Cammacks and The Berries over for New Years Eve--what fun!

Three Amigas!

Family Time!

Papa visiting with my kiddos

 Time with cousins--we often celebrate Melissa's b-day when we see the fam at Thanksgiving or Christmas.

 Mimer and Papa with the Cox cousins

 Cousins!!--enjoying Baby Esther!

 My brothers...

Happy Family of Grandkiddos!

A requested view

I was asked today by a friend--why hasn't she seen pictures of our house since we have moved in.  We are still working on details--and I hesitate to show before it's done.  Why?  I have no idea--maybe I'm living in denial!
So, here are our main rooms, the girls room and our music room.  The boys was clean last night, but not any more.  Ours wasn't clean last night nor is it this morning...so, you will have to wait on those:).
We are getting dry wall put in on Monday on our game room and missionary suite! We are super excited to have that scheduled!!!  Thanks Hannah for the inspiration to post!

Another dream a little dream post...

This is the car we are looking at buying next summer.  We've done a lot of research and much to the chagrin of the "Honda" side of the family, we are looking at this Buick for our possible future vehicle.  When a well known German car dealer told John that the American-made cars have really caught up to them, we continued our love of American made vehicles.  No, we are not snobs about it(hope no one sees us like that), but we like this vehicle.  This is kind of like my dream post:) like I did years ago.  Lots of dreams have come and gone, but we still like to dream:).
Funny, we looking at this old post...these are a few of the dreams that became a reality...

 I received these for Christmas one year:)

 I bought two of these for our new front porch...and for a deal!

 My sister in law gave me a white one of these a couple of summers ago:)

 We didn't get this exact table, but we did get a very large table...I still love this table and would like to upgrade one day when the kids are older:)

This is not a reality yet, but I'm thinking of doing this in our circle drive...a smaller version with a large boulder and some good Texas tall heather like grass--as my friend Alisa had the inspirational idea for!

Mark's B-day in October...

 Mark's such a happy kid!  He's so grateful and just plain nice!  I'm sure he got this from his dad!  John's just so even and friendly to all.  He turned 10 this year! 

Our kittens lately...

 That's momma cat...the kittens are ready to find homes.  One of my students is taking the gray and white one; we are keeping the runt--it's the black (with white on it's face).  Any takers?

My niece! Esther...

I just thought I needed to add my niece in here...she's growing up --she's a year now!  Although her parents are divided between UT and A&M...at least in this last picture, the grandparents got to request the outfit.  I will give it Cristina, though, she bought it and another one with UT on it:).  Go Mom!  I get to see her in about 2 weeks!

Grooves...

Sometimes life is tough.  A few weeks ago, I received a word from the Lord about teaching and I was thinking it was really encouraging.  Lately, I'm reminded of the purpose of a word might be for you to have something to hold on to during hard times.  That doesn't exactly make me smile...maybe laugh cynically, but not smile.  I have questioned some things lately.   I believe I am where I am supposed to be, but often I fall short...like lately--it feels almost weekly.  I wish I felt like He was chiseling away the grooves in a diamond...but I am feeling just weak.  I know my eyes need to be on Him, not on my heart being hurt or feeling pain.  Part of that is put to practice in the use of less words.  I do use way too many of them.  It's a choice to use words properly...may I make that choice moment by moment.