Brothers and sisters

breezeway transformation

Taken from inside the former "breezeway" after walls taken out and painted white - thanks to Gramma Shell!

Outside the breezeway when the walls were still up and the trim and posts were still blue.

Bedroom/bathroom renovation

before...

This is not our furniture. These pictures were taken during the househunting process.

Wierd, open bathroom.

during...after...

Curb Appeal - "Before" picture at bottom of post

Michele, Max's mom, stripped and sanded the door, hours of work, and painted the entryway and the trim of the house. Huge improvement.

A friendlier entry-way.

For some reason there is a garden patch in the middle of the sidewalk, so we planted pansies there.

I think this picture was taken back in April when before we bought the house. God allowed the blue trim in order to save the house for us. Can you believe someone painted over the beautiful cedar door?

Baby Evelyn!

JB holding her the day we got home from the hospital.

Gloria looking at her new sister in the hospital, the day Evelyn was born, 2:40 in the morning on Monday, August 31st. This is the same day just much later, around 12:30pm.

The kids and Gramma Shell checking out Evelyn Victoria Bremer.

Mommy holding new baby. I have been blessed with quick, relatively easy, no-complications labor. I think the hard part is bringing them home and getting adjusted as well as being sleep deprived. Painful in different ways. Evelyn is a wonderful baby, sweet disposition, still wakes up a lot at night (every 1-2 hours...ugh!), a beautiful baby girl. Max would tell you that every newborn is ugly, but on the scale of ugliness, Evelyn is a pretty cute one, at least I think so. In fact, I don't think she's ugly at all. Maybe a little scrunched with gooey stuff on them at first, but they get better with each passing day...