The Power of Bartering

I am bartering many services for piano lessons.

Hair trims and highlights
House cleaning once a week
Landscaping
1 Massage a month
Living Will and Trust
babysitting

House Decorating

Our bedroom headboard I painted antique white from goodwill. April did the vinyl lettering.

Craigslist loveseat. Needed more burgandy and red in the room the Feng Shui lady told me since it's the relationship room.

Our tree of life picture in the family room.

My garden from the dirty window. Still planting we are going to have a farm.

Couches from craigslist, computer chair a yard sale.

Buen Provecho means enjoy your meal and many blessings in South America. Notice the bright blue is gone, I painted the kitchen last week with a friend.

Laundry room.

Pantry

Pantry and upright freezer John and Joelynn gave us.

My Laundry room, wanted to save money and painted a boarder on and April did the vinyl lettering. This is the room I come into every day from the carport so I wanted it to be cute, it was all white and very ugly. Now it's beautiful and patriotic!

Boys Ocean bathroom, I bought the picture at goodwill and had no idea if it would fit. Lucky me!

Painted the cabinet, and Dustin gave me new hardware.

Dresser goodwill find. Cameran's Ecuador wood piece.

Guest bedroom/Sewing room with Starla's lovely quilt, my Bolivian rug as a headboard, I was so excited that was the Feng Shui's idea and I've never been able to display it.

Play room with vintage airplane boarder, I'm going to hang airplanes from the ceiling.
Can you tell I'm having fun decorating!!

In Livingroom.

Living room, blue chair, yard sale, victorian seat craigslist.

Dinning table, criagslist and wall mirror (45lbs) cost only $12, I'm serious, craigslist is awesome.

Much advice has come from my feng shui consultant, if you have any questions ask. All furniture was bought at yard sales, craigslist and goodwill's 50% off sales.

House Warming Party

We had about 30 people at our party on Feb 6th, 2010. It was a lot of fun. We had banana splits and taught everyone about Feng Shui and cloth diapers.

We have done so much to the house to decorate so I'll post some pictures.

Gardening Time

Yesterday Joseph and I planted the garden. I'm also going to paint the kitchen again a pretty sage green color. It will look good with the white cabinets and countertops, black appliances and wood floor. A girlfriend is coming over to help me thank goodness.

We planted cabbage, spinach, zuchinni, radishes, peas, lettuce, carrots, bell peppers, green onions, watermelon, cantelope, yellow crockneck squash, squash, snap peas and brocolli. We are very excited and the horse manure that we laid down before the rain storms should really help.

Hadlock Grandparents

Two New Jobs

I got two jobs in the past week. I'm starting to teach piano again. I have three students. Two vietamese children, 10 and 7 and a 42 african american lady.

Also, I'm starting Monday to coach softball. I'll be the assistant head coach at a charter school for high school. I am so excited, my dream job!

Family

Gavian eating pizza

Back row-Joseph, Damian, Christian, Mason

Front row-Ryya, Grandpa, Samuel, Grandma, Gavian, Chloe

First time all 8 grandkids were together (missing Titan)

Damian looking onward

Master Bedroom

This is my favorite color in the whole house. It's called Old English. It's in both Master Bedrooms.

Family Helping

New Crown molding before it was painted, we also got victorian style baseboards.

This is the pantry before we painted it, it looks so much better, we also inherited an upright freezer from Cameran's parents.

Uncle Sterling and Lee priming

Uncle Brandan and Cameran putting Samuel's and Joseph's bunkbed together

Uncle Lee and Mom (Linda Jo Hodges Fluharty) priming.

Nasty Colors in the House before

(After) Cameran's office and boys bedroom color.

(Before) Cameran's office

Creamed colored wall and I'm going to paint the wood cabinet black.

Kids play room, now a cream colored wall.

More Improvements

Boys bedroom before paint and carpet

Our beautiful travertine

Kitchen

The beautiful wood flooring conecting to the livingroom carpet. I love them both!

My new diningroom table

Kitchen with new paint, wood floor, added hardware and black appliances

Kitchen before with ugly flooring and paint.

Ugly kitchen flooring being taken off

Livingroom

(After) Here's the new carpet and paint job in the livingroom.

(Before) Here's the ugly colors and the popcorn ceiling being removed.

Family Room

The family room before with the beam in the middle of the ceiling, we removed that and slanted the ceiling to raise on one side.

The familyroom with new carpet, paint and new couches. Also a new bedroom door with brand new stain, my sister April did it.

Moving our Master bedroom wall over 3 feet.

The outside paint job

Before with awfull color on side of house. Took out the cemetary trees.

Cemetary trees down and new paint.

Sterling and Boys

Sterling, Christian, Damian and Gavian for Christmas 2009

Santa Dec 2009

Joseph's Preschool Program video

Joseph's Preschool Program

Joseph singing songs and dancing!

Waiting in line to talk to Santa

Feliz Navidad song!

The house is getting close

Here's the color in our Master bedroom and the spare Master bedroom. I love it!

The House

House Update

Our Master bedroom, the new window

The drywall and the wall we moved over 3 feet in the Master bedroom. The door my sister April is going to stain for my birthday

Lynard and Kevin Boyer removing the old laminate with a blow torch and scraping tool.

Work on the new house

Here's the kids playroom. A Cream color. Same color in the livingroom.

Cameran's office. I love the color, we are painting the boys room the same color.

Sterling and Lee helping prime the guest bedroom.

Lee and Linda priming

The popcorn ceiling coming down all over the house.

Landscaping

We are taking out the three cemetary bush trees in the front. We are also adding an irregular oval shape of grass in the middle of the rock, adding a peach and orange tree. We are excited and hope to be in before Christmas.

Uncle Sterling and Joseph sleeping in the Car

This was on the way home from Surprise and we told them everyone falls asleep in the back seat.

Farm Day

Joseph and Sam had fun on the farm. Climbing tracktors, putting horses, feeding lambs, drinking chocolate milk and having fun. It was a good memory.

Firefighter Field Trip

Joseph had lots of fun spraying the water hose at the fire station. They let them crawl into the fire truck and gave them stickers and coloring books.

Joseph Preschool turkery day

Joseph had fun at preschool on his turkey day.

Rachel's baby quilt

Found this beautiful baby quilt for $2 at a yard sale. She loved it so much and wanted her mom to make her one just like it but her mom said no because it was too hard to do. I was happy to give it to her.

Joseph's Surgery

Joseph had a tied tongue so he had surgery to cut it. He played lots before surgery. Watched movies and played with toys and stickers, afterwards they gave him a popsicle and a remote control transformer and a stuffed animal to take home. He had a lot of fun.

Halloween 2009

Mommy and Daddy were indians and Joseph was bateman and Sam was a lion.

My $10 yard sale find--Antique Chair

My New Antique Victorian Loveseat

Bought a love seat similar to this one. Mine has better carvings on the wood and the original costs over 7K but I got mine used for under $200. It is gorgeous and in perfect condition. It will look beautiful in our new living room.

OUR HOUSE

Here's our house. We are going to repaint it blue/gray with white trim. Take the bushes out and landscape the front. We are excited!

Bought a Table and Chairs

We bought this table and chairs barley used. We are excited to have a nice set for our new house.

Samuel Hadlock 17 Months

Amy Jo's favorite pose.

Cameran's favorite pose.

We Got The House

The bank accepted our 4th counter offer of $97,500 after two months of negotiations. We are really excited and they will close on the house in 9 days. We will move in the end of Nov or Begining of Dec. We feel really blessed to have this house and fix it up!

GREAT WEBSITE

Here's a great website.

http://betterafter.blogspot.com/

I love it!

CANNING IS FUN

I have been on a kick canning for the last two weeks. Peaches, pears, peach and pear apple jam, salsa and chunky applesauce. It's been a lot of fun and I've purchased a lot of jars off of craigslist.com and even bought a water bath canner. It's such a fun process. Next I want to can meaty, veggie speghetti sauce and soups. I'm excited to have canned goods to go into my nice big new air conditioned pantry. It will be fun.

Waiting to Close

So the house only appraised for $130,00 and all the repairs costs plus purchase price come out to be $143,000. So we are asking them to lower the price again. We are praying hard, and they may since we should them that the AC which is a $4k expense is not working properly. Hopefully we hear back from them Monday or Tuesday so we can start planning. Have a great weekend!

I want to make this apron. It's so cute! It will help with my new canning obsession! To find the pattern go to http://www.spotlight.com.au/__data/page/12483/E07_09_Frilledapron_PS.pdf

WE BOUGHT THE HOUSE!

We bought the house for $106,000. We are spending $32,000 on repairs and it will be new. We are really excited. We have our contractor hired, a great guy from our ward. The house has 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, and 2255 square feet.

Joseph starts preschool next month and swimming lessons again.

After watching Julie and Julia I have been in a canning mood. I canned 60 lbs of peaches and made peach jam this week. Next week it's pears and apple pear jam and after that it's applesause.

Tomorrow I'm going to goodwill on their 1/2 off sale and buying out all their canning jars. Salsa and speghetti sauce next. I can't wait. I'm so addicted to canning now. I'll have so much fun stuff to put in my pantry when I move in in Oct.

House Purchase

Here's the latest on the house purchase. The bank said they would accept our offer but we couldn't use the 203K loan to fix up the place, we have to have this loan and that they would pay $5,000 towards roof repairs. Now they are saying that we can use the 203K loan but they won't pay the $5,000 to repair the roof. So now we are asking them to reduce the price by $5,000 or pay us $5,000 for the roof. We should hear back Monday or Tuesday if they accept our terms. They did get a cash offer last weekend but went with our offer. Now we just have to pray they don't get any other offers over the weekend.

SUMMER FUN

Joseph started swimming lessons. He loves it. He can swim sucessfully if I put my hand on his tummy. HA! We are still looking for a house to buy, nothing yet, maybe all the people moving in the summer will help us. Joseph starts preschool in a month. He is so excited. Samuel is attempting to learn how to walk. Have fun this summer it's half way over.

May 2009 Family Picture

Life is great. Samuel just turned 1 years old this month. Joseph is 3 1/2. I've been growing a garden and Cameran and I have been working out at the YMCA.

We want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Today is our anniversary, we have been married 6 years. Hard to believe, the time flys by so fast. We are really excited for Christmas. We will be staying close to home and spending it with Cameran's family, they only live 5 minutes away. I turned 31 last Sunday. Time is flying by.

Today is great. We are going to the first of a few Christmas partys this month. We love partys. Life has been good, we went sailing a few weeks ago. Cameran and I got away without the kids, which is a rare occasion.