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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Gotta love fixer-upers!

While I was in Africa, Danny was left with the wonderful task of moving. Fun task, especially by your self. What a great guy! Well, the first apartment that we were going to move into, fell through after he had moved most of our stuff in. So, poor guy, he was left to find us a new place, and move us all over again. After much strife and help from my brother's girlfriend, Megan, he found us a place in south Orem, in a very old house. It is really good sized, but needed some serious repairs. We painted, fixed holes in the walls, cleaned up the yard as best we could, and sanded the wood floors. These pictures don't even do justice to what the house looked like when I first saw it.
Notice the painted bow on the closet door....cut eh? I know you all wish you could have baby blue toliet, sink, and tub. It is so in style!

With many thanks to Dan, I now proudly present our significantly improved apartment!


Not much I could really do about the blue bathroom, but the rest of the house looks pretty good. And poor Dan, after spending 4 hours trying to repair the outlet for the dryer and repiping the drain for the washer, we both thought that it would be the last of the repairs that we would have to do for this great fixer-uper, however, we were wrong. As I went to do the laundry today, the washer worked just fine, but the dryer quit working after about 15 minutes. Gotta love it!

Well, we have no drying racks, so we had to make do with what we do have, and this is how it turned out.

Ahhh, the joys of renting.................

Oh, and for all of you who still want to see picts of the orphanage, I just posted them! Yay!

6 comments:

  1. i'm so glad we're neighbors!!! the house looks great!!!

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  2. it looks soo cute you guys! nice work :-) you have to invite us over sometime!

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  3. The place looks great! If was great to see you guys if only for a few days. COme on down if you get bored. You are always welcome. (We will even take Chloe, Ava might have a heart attack, but oh well:)!

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  4. I loved seeing your new place. It looks SO good!

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  5. Tell Danny to come live at my house for a few weeks....I could put him to work! You guys did a great job--everything looks AWESOME! And the blue toilet is what memories are made of.

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  6. Car, this is like real life, like a real home, with real pretty decorations, and a real blue toilet (wait)...
    Still want to come by and see it

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