Home Sweet Home

The following are pictures of the basement:

This is taking the steps down to the basement. If you were to go to the left you would go thru a door to the garage and if you would go to the right you would enter the living room area of the basement!

After you get downstairs and turn left, take another right and you will enter the laundry room.

The laundry room holds our 2nd toliet, which has seemed to be a lifesaver when we have had family over to stay! :)

Here is a picture of part of the living room area. As you can see the door the left is to the laundry room, the door straight ahead is to the garage, and if you were to turn right behind the television you would be heading up the stairs to the front door!

Another picture of the living room area. The little door is basically our only storage area under the stairs since we have vaulted ceilings (meaning no attic)!

As you keep walking into the living room you can take a slight right and enter more of the basement. The shelves along the back wall are built-in!

This is the rest of the basement looking out from the area into the right.

As you can see there are tons of windows downstairs, which lets tons of sunlight in and it is beautiful! Guardian loves it!

This is heading back upstairs, at the bottom half of the stairs.

And last but not least this is the top part of the stairwell.

Like I previously stated, this is all the previous owners items inside the house. These pictures were taken when we had our inspection. Hope you enjoyed, and we will get pictures of the house with our things in them soon...along with any renovations that we do!

Crash and Boom!

On February 28, 2009 Ryan and Trenton went to a hospital in downtown Cedar Rapids that was demolishing an old building. Here are some pictures of the aftermath. They had everything fixed where the building would fall in on itself. They actually did some sort of contest to see who would push the button to begin the process. If I remember correctly the guy that won was a janitor or mainetance guy from the hospital and he and his son pushed the button at the same time! The name of the hospital is Mercy Medical Center and they wanted this building demolished so they could us the site for other things that were needed. There was a huge crowd! Enjoy!

Valentine's Day 2009

The night before Valentine's Day God decided to bless us with another beautiful overlay of white snow. Here are few pics of the snow and Jez and Guardian playing in it!

The morning of February 14 was a long morning. That morning Jezebel decided she would make the mistake of biting me on my face. Trenton had just left to go shovel his Granma O'Connor's yard and Jez was sitting in my lap. I bent down to tell her that we were going to get up and she snapped at me and caught my upper lip. And after a visit to a clinic and many "apologies" from Jez we are better now. She becomes very defensive when she has bones so we have decided to cut back on the bones and not risk anything like that happening again. The other good news is that there is hardly even a scar now and hopefully it will continue to fade! That day we rested for a while and then went to see a play that Trenton had bought tickets for. It was in the Amana, IA and the name of the play was Love Letters. It was sweet and ended up being a great day after all!

Here are a couple of pictures of Jezebel and Guardian telling their Daddy Happy Valentine's Day!

Guardian gave Trenton a card and Jez gave him some chocolate candies with a card that had an apology note in it. :) Jez even did a great job of bringing from the bedroom into the living room where dad was resting!

Chris Tomlin Concert

Part of Trenton's Christmas present from Jez, Guardian, and I were a couple of tickets to the Chris Tomlin and Israel & New Breed concert! It was an amazing night filled with a much needed time to humble ourselves before our Heavenly Father. We had seats on the floor extremely close to the stage. If you have never listened to Chris Tomlin or Israel & New Breed, I highly encourage you to check them out. At the concert they encouraged everyone to check out the following website: www.onemillioncan.com. This website contains 7 organizations that help spread God's word to people throughout the world. I encourage each of you to check this website out. Pray and listen to God's leading.

Israel & New Breed:

After Israel & New Breed, waiting on Chris Tomlin to come out

Chris Tomlin:

Random Pics January 2009

Our 2008 Christmas ornament from Kristen and Jason. Kristen actually made it. She made a few other ones for a few other couples. If you want to check them out just click on the following link: www.thescurlocks.blogspot.com

I do have to say that God is truly indescribable!

You would never guess that Jez missed her daddy!

Some of the following pictures are Jezebel and Guardian patiently waiting to see what presents they got from the family in TN!

Guardian loves Jezebel's new bed! As long as it gets used that is what matters!

Some more snow in January!

Jezebel trying to move in the snow! You can see her friend on the other side of the fence. His name is Medic!

Here is a picture of a snow pile in a parking lot. That is Trenton posing to show you just how big the pile really is!

Bringin' in 2009 in TN

Mama trying on all my winter gear! She looks beautiful and would really enjoy some of the snow that we really get in Iowa!

One of the games that passed time waiting for 01/01/09

Kristen and Jason smiling happily

Sarah and Cole with their sparkling grape juice

Trenton and I

John Boy

New Year's 2009 was rolled in while we were in good ole' Tennessee! We did a late Christmas with Daddy during the day and hung out at Mama's for the night! It was an absolute blast! Here you will see a series of photos that the boys got a little wrapped up in taking! Enjoy!