Our Michigan Home

Before we even left Arizona, our plan was to go to Michigan and do some maintenance on our home there.  1.) Remodel the bathroom  2.)Touch up paint on the outside of the home 3.)Find a renter.  

On our way home we met a lady at one of the churches we visited in New Mexico.   She was from Michigan and she was a missionary who wanted to help us remodel our home.  Her husband was a contractor and she thought he might be interested in helping us with our home too.  Later this couple encouraged us to sell our home.  Also, while in N.M. another man talked with us about selling our home instead of renting it.  So, after much thought and prayer we began three weeks of intense LABOR to prep our home for an Open House.  The Glidewell's and our new friends from MI. put in many hours of hard work. 

Ace picking up pizza for our hard working crew.

Ang's sister Aimee painting, she has energy the size of 10 people!

 

 

The little ones trying to stay out of trouble.  Aimee's children and Cherokee.

Carson who got into a paint war with Piper.

Piper painting trim notice paint on elbow from paint war.

We had a few helpers Doug came and helped us mow the law which was a lot of work because it hadn't been mowed in a long time maybe not at all that year?  This was a huge blessing since Ace gets terrible allergy attacks when mowing the lawn so he hates doing it.

Gustie is cleaning the walk way she spent many hours on her hands and knees separating the grass from the cement walk way.

Gene helping Gustie with the front walk-way.

Stormie working on window screens all the screen frames were cleaned and screen was replaced some window screens had to be made as they were missing.

Piper raking all the tall grass up to make the yard pretty.  Very hot and tiring work.

Caught Aurora singing while she worked.  Maybe she was singing I've been working on the rail road or some slave hymn.

Sam causing trouble.  Very few things a four year old can do but every once and a while he had a job.

The huge pile of grass the kids raked up and hauled to the garden location.

Aurora polishing the bathroom light fixture.  Details, details, details! We wanted to advertise the place was clean so every last nook and cranny was scrubbed.