Life with Our Magnificent 7: New House Renovation Week 1 - Part 2

Welcome to the chaos we call our life & family!

My DH often says this is the chaos we like to call our family, or something to that effect. To answer the basic questions we here often: Yes! With 7 children we are busy! Yes! It often gets hectic, chaotic, crazy, & overwhelming, we love it anyway! No! We do not wish we had a smaller family we can't imagine our lives with less children, we love them all! Yes! It's tricky co-ordinating everyones schedules thank goodness for the FLYlady calendar (if you haven't heard of FLYlady I really recommend looking up her site!). Yes! We do cook a LOT of food, and we eat all or most of it in one sitting! No! You probably do not want to see our grocery bill, or how much we spend on clothes, footwear, sports, etc. each year! ;-) UPDATE 2019: We now have 1 of the original 7 that lives at home. We have added a 3 wonderful daughter-in-laws and an awesome son-in law, as well as 3 beautiful granddaughters and 3 handsome grandsons with our oldest 4. We have 2 adult daughters who have also moved to their own places.

Chaos, maybe, boring, NEVER! There is almost always something going on in our home, never a dull moment from the adult perspective anyway... you know kids, if it gets "too quiet" they are sure it's a sign of being bored! LOL

In 2008 we moved into a new "project home" I have posted some of the fun & craziness that has happened while replacing flooring, adding a furnace, roof, pantry, texture to the walls redoing a kitchen and much more.

2019 UPDATE: WE NOW have purchased a new "prject home = rehab home" that we hope to move into by the end of September 2019! Again feel free to join us for the ride as we continue our new adventure to upgrade get our home ready for move in! It has been interesting to say the very least!

Sunday, September 8, 2019

New House Renovation Week 1 - Part 2 - August 17th

Shumway House Renovation: Week 1 - Part 2 - August 17, 2019

My formatting stopped working with me so I figured we needed a Part 2 to fnish!

Next Up, Family Room!

Before:

As you can see right now this is a storage area, one of the new doors will be the new family room exterior door, one will go on the current garage exterior doorway, and one will go on the dettached garage, I think.

The detached garage, nothing new here yet, but Jordan loves to park his car inside it. There is some digging down to do so that the concrete can be poured, then the doors can go in, hopefully in the next week or so.