Brent and Ashley

Calera House

2010-11-03T10:02:00.003-05:00

Well Fun News !!!!! The Lord is taking us on a new adventure something I didnt think we would be doing for another year or two the Lord has just been opening doors for us to be home owners. Okay i need my paper bag ;) Breath!!!!
Brent and I are so excited and (overwhelmed, well that is me not brent he is so relaxed)! Thankfully we have such an amazing agent Courtney :) that is holding our hand and telling us what we need done and by when. Which has been very helpful since we are both new to Mortgages , contracts, closing dates, repairs and so much more.
We ask for your prayers on the house!! We know it is all up to Jesus and we are good with the outcome either way we just want it all to be in His will !!!Also i am posting pictures today on Picasa

Calera House

2010-11-03T10:01:00.000-05:00

new pictures of the house finished (well for now)

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our dining room :) yeah for new blinds !!!

our living room

our fireplace :)

here is our bathroom and our decor

This is our guest bathroom:)

the new guest bath

new kitchen

look at the additions gurney :) they look great thank you

kitchen

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twins with Rivers and Rain

typical twin moment

loved this picture

d moma and d daddy did so good smiling :)

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look at this sweet smile

it just gets better

how cute

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first butterfly !!!

look straddle :) d moma i have it :)

My first straddle

Hollow body hold (what is so amazing is most our big girls cant do this )

pictures

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MMM taste so good

Look at me i am pulling up !! move d moma i got it

d moma i can do it i promise

see i did it !!

2010-08-25T11:16:00.018-05:00

Okay here are a few pictures of our renovations ... i will take some o f the final product and post them to :)
Here is our room before we painted

We were not done but here is the fun new relaxing color

Here is a picture of our bathroom right when we pulled out the sink and toilet (look at all the fun mold ) I didnt get any pictures when they tore out the floors :) but everything but the walls were torn out :)
Here is our new sink area :) all nice and clean
Here is where the shower was (if you look close there is a hole in the floor where it was draining on the ground ) :)
Here is the same view now with our lovely walk in shower :)
Here is a picture of the guest bath all torn up ... i dont have any pictures of this one finished yet but i will get some :) ( eric and I accidentally pulled the ceiling down when pulling the stand up shower out ) that is our new bath tub yeah for bathtubs:)

this is the only picture i have of the kitchen before anything was changed :) and this is the first year we moved in only a couple of months after we moved in :)
Here is the kitchen when we painted the cabnets but with the green counter tops :)

Now here is the black counter tops and the new backsplash that we did all by our selves well ( brent, his mom and me :)
Here is the picture when we got done with everything now all i need is to take pictures with the cabinet doors on and also with the new appliances :) so hopefully i can work on the new pictures and post friday :)

Thanksgiving

2010-02-23T01:11:00.000-06:00

All the Parents and their Children :)

The Brothers and Sisters ( I love this Picture!!)

Love this picture

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I think this is all the Grandkids

This is Grandkids and Spouses

Uncle John thought this was the cuties picture :) He loved this little one playing with his cane

Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving

2009-11-26T18:31:00.004-06:00

I sit here and reflect on what i am thankful for and i am so thankful for my Lord and savior first and for most.. I am thankful that he thought i was so important that he gave his life for me. Sometime i really get caught up in how much he really loves us:) Wow it is amazing ....

Also i am so Thankful for my wonderful FAMILY!!!! It starts with my greatgrandpartents. The Robinson's , Weldon's , McCraven's , and Waylee's. I know they all had a huge part in building my families heritage but the one's i remember would be the Robinson's , Mccraven's, and the weldon's (well i really only remember granny weldon) We use to go to Christmas party over there and she would give us all a pair of pj's with the feet in them (they were the best)!!!... But i really remember my great-grandparents on McCraven and Robinson sides ... I use to love going to great grandmother mccravens and going into her back yard and trying to pick up the "big" watermelons , tomato's, and my basket would be so full and heavy walking back to the house... They where so sweet and loving they would give you the shirt off their back. Then their is the Robinson's wow i remember watching great granddaddy love granny robinson and those orange penuts you couldnt go into their house with out at least eating one, and then their was great granddad's pat on your leg that would make you think you where getting the worst beating of your life:) haha and the generosity of granny robinson man if i have heard it once i have heard it a million times from so many people on how giving she was.. and i remember watching her at her shop and how she delt with people and their was nothing but love in her eyes and heart.
Which brings me to my wonderful grandparents.
The weldons side wow look at the smiles (i think this is where i learned to laugh from them)

Gurney and Grandaddy have taught me so much. I have watched them love each other for at least 29 of my years and many more than that..Thank you Jesus for blessing me with grandparents that have lived out your word with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness ... i have seen it lived out in front of me my whole life.. Talk about blessed!!!

Grandmother and Granddaddy have taught me alot over the last 29 years. The value of time spent with your family... one thing grandmother always has told us come when you can and she just has really shown us the time spent together is so valuable you cannot put a price tag on it:) The love i have seen her and granddaddy share has been wonderful to watch and to know her love for him has not changed:) See what i mean about being blessed ...

That brings me to my wonderful parents (look at those 2 love birds)
My mom and Dad have been such a huge blessing in my life. I want to grow up and be like them !!! They have showed me so much unconditional love over these years. I see Christ love through them. Mom and Dad thank you so much for everything yall have done for me .. For denying your wants to put us kids through school, gymnastics, cheer, and esp our weddings hahaha yall are the most amazing parents a child could ask for . Thank you for teaching us what your parents taught yall love, patience, joy, peace... Also thank you for looking to Jesus Christ for guidance.
Also i am so thankful for my sisters and their husbands.. Girls you know yall are everything to me.. I love yall so much more than i can ever express. I am so blessed to have an amazing husband that loves me through Christ !!!!

i will be posting pictures from today soon !!!
Happy Thanksgiving to you!!!
Angie i really missed you, bryan, charlie, and sam today:(

2009-10-15T13:15:00.000-05:00

I am starting to understand why they gave him the nickname "George" because he is so curious.

To say the least he was scared :)

Tennessee Valley ( river in the back ground)

The sign in front of a little spot we found leaving Look Out Mountain this is where we got the pictures without the railing :) haha and we took a picture of the sign for David and Christina ( if they have a boy David wants to name him Braxton Bragg Comer ) and if you look in the sign it talks about General Braxton Bragg :)

2009-10-15T13:06:00.000-05:00

Can you spot the Bacon?

That looks like a Texas size Potato Chip to me!!

Here is Ruby Falls !!! ( I wasnt tall enough to get over that bald mans head)

I went under the falls and took a picture looking up the falls :)

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One Year Anniversary

2009-10-15T12:49:00.001-05:00

I am having the hardest time realizing that we have been married for a year now . How time has past us by:) But thankfully we didnt have to do the bathroom this weekend (because insurance is covering it , well everything that was damaged by the leak) since we didnt have to spend our weekend ripping out the bathroom we took sunday and went to Chattanooga, TN to see Rock City and Ruby Falls :) Here are some of those pictures :)

more bathroom pictures

2009-10-05T12:59:00.000-05:00

This is the shower where we will rip it out and the unused storage space next to it and make that one big walk in shower :) At least that is the plan.

This is a picture of the double sink that his parents bought about a year ago for that bathroom :)

bathroom pictures

2009-10-05T12:38:00.002-05:00

here is our bathroom now :) Hate the lights by the way :) if you look close enough you can see the mold on the side of the sink cabinets

Redoing our Bathroom

2009-10-05T12:19:00.002-05:00

Just to start this off ... My biggest fear of starting a blog is my grammar so i am going to get over it and start one anyway :)
So Brent and I are coming up on our 1 year anniversary and we realize we have this weekend off :) And we where pondering the thought of going up to Chattanooga spending the day at ruby falls and look out mountain. Romantic i know !!! Well that all changed when we realized that this is the last weekend we have off till Thanksgiving and Christmas :) And we have this leak in our bathroom that is causing mold to grow under our floors (we can see it under white vinyl) and also it is starting to run into our bedroom (that is causing our new wood floors to pucker )
So needless to say our romantic, fun, exciting , full of picture taking weekend in chattanooga for our anniversary will be ripping up and replacing our bathroom :) Right now we are discussing all the plans with his family (since this is his parents house we have to get the okay to do all this :)

Okay so here is ashley's plans
1. Thursday (before i have to be at the gym 3:00) rip out the entire bathroom except floor
2. Friday rip out floor and then have the plumber redo all the plumbing for the shower and set it up for a new walk in shower , also move the toilet to the other side of the bathroom so we can bring in the new double sink his parents already bought.
Lay new subfloors and brace them
3. Saturday - Lay all the Tile (All the floors , the new shower floor , and all the way up the wall in the shower
Also build the new wall for the walk in shower
4. Sunday - Grout and seal the floor , paint and move everything in :)

hahahah okay so those were my plans mmmm well lets just say to have it all done in 4 days i need hgtv or diy network and all their expertise to do that (or so i am told by brent and his parents ) because now i am learning you have to tile one day, grout the next , and seal the next day (that is 3 days)

Well we will see what is going to happen i guess sooner to time :)
By the way i really do love my husband for letting me dream my dreams until i have to face the facts :)

Our Recent Trips

2009-06-19T11:31:00.004-05:00

Lord your so amazing!!! I love looking at the wonderful ways you paint the sky:)