Following The Call » Our lives as we went from adopting to mission work to leukemia fighters.

So. We have been in our house about a month. It is great. We love it. We’re in the country. The kids can run and play. We have a pool. We have a puppy. We’re getting a mini horse. What more could a girl want?!!  Or perhaps I should ask what less a girl could want. Less wall paper perhaps??   Holy cow. This house is a wall paper nightmare.

Anyone who has ever stepped into any of my prior homes probably knows I have some kinda wild taste for decorating. I love color. I love modern style and I am border line obsessed with danish modern furniture. So… all that said I am CRAZY excited to have my friend Mindi from Mindi Freng Designs helping me out with getting my crazy style taste to tie together. We have some AMAZING ideas that I can’t wait to share with you all!!  We are starting in the kitchen…  here’s where I am so far-

The problem with all this work in our house is that it leads to this-

and that disaster is driving me crazy!!  Oh well… I’ll survive. I think.  Kia likes the mess. She added a towel held up by bottles of spices and said it was her ‘meeting place.’ whatever. the kid is just as crazy as me.

I also took myself out to the great home depot and bought myself a circular saw. It is crazy amounts of fun.  So far with my mad cutt’n skills I have cut out pieces of wood to make a book shelf. I haven’t put it together yet… so I don’t know how well I did with the saw yet. At least books aren’t breakable if the whole until comes crashing down to the floor.

We had some other great excitement around here yesterday (saturday). Matt was outside and came rushing in (I was painting… of course) and said he heard a crash just down from our house. I quick ran out there and a car had lost control and smashed into a tree. The tree was basically where the drivers seat was supposed to be and the man was laying back un-responsive. One of my neighbors was already out there, and he said that the man was dead and there was nothing I could do to help. So I went back home. A few minutes later like 8 million cop/fire/ambulance vehicles started coming, and aero med landed in my neighbors yard. They worked on the guy for awhile and then aero med took him out. I later read that the man was drunk and speeding. We knew he was speeding based on the amount of squealing as he was going around the curves. The man died later at the hospital. It was a very strange experience to see happen. I am very sad for the mans family, whoever they are. I can not even imagine what it is like to suddenly loose a loved one like that.  I am thankful that the man did not kill anyone else in his foolishness of driving in that state.

* as a side note….  word on the street is that accidents frequently happen in front of our house. We live on a big curve, and many drunk people don’t make it all the way through the curve… Our neighbor warned us of that the day we moved in!!