A house for us!!!!

So this will be our new house! After three long years of renting and moving around we will finally have a place to put down some roots. We feel really blessed to be taking this big step into home ownership...for the third time. The house is off Salt Road (instead of Hard, Lake, Basket or Ridge Road :P) near the Lake. It does need a bit of updating but we think the location and the fact that it is on a cul-d-sac make up for that. Plus it has a great two tier deck of the back!!!

Jacob in the backyard...lots of shade!


The back of the house and some of the deck...lots of work!


the family room...don't worry the stencil border is already painted over


the kitchen and eat in dining area

Where is Jakie? Day 7

We decided today that we were going to try to make in all the way to Rochester. We got off to an early start and had high hopes. We drove all the way up into Michigan. It was an amazing drive. During some parts we were right on the water with the sun shining and the water lapping up onto the shore. Most of the drive was through the middle of no-wheres-ville. We did go over a pretty impressive bridge which Jacob got a kick out of.
The only real excitement of the day happened around Indian Springs, Michigan. We stopped at a gas station to fill up. The pump said we had put 14.5 gallons of gas in the tank. Only when we turned the car back on, the gas gauge still read that we only had a quarter of a tank of gas left. David and I just chalked it up to the gas gauge suddenly breaking and headed out on the road. But, when we start driving the gas gauge kept going down. Then about 6o miles down the road our gas light goes on! We needed to pull over to change Jacob so we stopped at the next station. (Otherwise, I think we would have just kept driving.) We decided to try and pump some more gas into the tank and wouldn't ya know...it takes about 14 gallons of gas. (our tank is a 14 gallon tank) If I haven't make myself clear...than means the first time we stopped for gas we paid 60 but didn't get any gas. So we almost got stranded out in the middle of nowhere. Jacob really saved the day!
We drove through Flint, Michigan and went over the border into Canada. It was really weird. It seemed like a different country for sure. We drove back into the country with no problem and were home around 11:30pm. Whew!

where is jakie? day 6

Today we drove to Wisconson. I drove a little bit again so David could watch all the cool scenery. We stopped at Mall of America for several hours. We went to the Rain Forest Cafe for lunch. Jacob was a little intimidated by the apes that moved and screeched. We sat right by a giant fish tank which he loved. We checked out lego land and the nickelodeon theme park inside the mall as well. That night we saw a motocycle accident were they had hit a deer and decided to stop so we wouldn't hit a deer too. The deer were out and running across the road like crazy.

Where is Jakie? Day 5

Okay so David's computer crashed somewhere around day 5 of our trip east which is why the blogging stopped so abruptly during the trip. We stayed really close the the park so we were able to get going right after breakfast. This place was truly amazing. I don't remember learning much about Mt. Rushmore in school but it is pretty interesting place.

David and Jacob with the big guys in the background


this seemed like a picture that bill and sharon aka "the photography buffs" would take so I make david take a picture


can you believe that george washington's nose is 20 feet long!


here we are again...just after the rain storm


i thought this was a cool picture of david and jacob

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