~ My Husband Rocks! ~ but sometimes . . .

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. . . I don't think he believes it.

Poor Austin. He's been under a little stress lately. And by a little, I mean stress such as would cripple an ordinary man.

Praise the Lord that mine is no ordinary man :)

He is so very sweet because I think he tries to keep me from worrying about it, but I know that he has been very discouraged lately. There are a lot of details that I'm not going to go into here, but between work and trying to get everything finished on and around the house before the end of this month, he has a lot on his plate. He is my superman! Please pray that I would be a true help meet to him in these circumstances and that we would both look to the Lord for our true strength as we try to do the seemingly-impossible!

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Don't forget . . . next week is going to be one big party! Hope you'll all be able to join us as we celebrate the 1st birthday of My Husband Rocks!!!

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Hope you all have a fantastic Friday, and a wonderful weekend!

Flip that house! ~ Exterior Reveal!

Flip That House

First of all, I have to set something straight right away. All of those TV shows where a crew just blows in and completely redoes a house, then they blow out again with hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit are big fat lies. Okay, maybe not lies, but they are VASTLY different from the experience we have had with remodeling our home. Looking back on it now we sometimes laugh at how naive we were when we were getting into this whole process. We were only dating at the time that Austin purchased the house, and when we were sitting in the bank discussing the construction loan, we told the loan officer that we needed a hobby. Well, needless to say, this house became far more than a hobby, but now that we are living in it, married, and we did not kill each other in the process, we are very thankful for the way things turned out! :)

This is what the exterior of the house looked like when Austin purchased it:



Gotta love the puke green metal siding, lol!

And a "during pic":



Finally some after pics!!!

Front view:



Back view:



~ Detail Pics ~

It used to be a standard height door with a transom above it, but Austin put the two together to make room for the extra-tall door.

I LOVE the leaded glass design! It shines little rainbows on the floor in the foyer when the sun hits it right, and all of our door hardware is that beautiful brushed nickel finish!

Whew! That's just the giftwrapping! For the rest of this week and next, I'll be posting the interior pics! :)

Thanks for reading!