Long time no Blog

So officially it has been 11 months since my last blog.  So sorry about that.  I could blame it on a busy busy life, but I am not going to do that.  Although, I do have to say that a lot has happened in that time.
I am now a parent to a teenager!  Yeesh, where does the time go?  It is hard to believe but she is in her last year of middle school too!
We have also added to our family.  We have gotten another dog, although he is still in his puppy year.  He is now 7 months old.  His name is Duke and he is a Border Collie/Lab mix, although if you ask me he looks like a hound dog.

Duke keeping me company.

Duke and Nelly taking a nap after playing hard!

He is growing bigger by the day, but he is such a mellow man.  He and Nelly like to play, so that is great also.  The only time it of course is not is when I am trying to sleep at 5 am.  We currently co-kennel them at night, but during the day, they each have their own space.  That is one thing that I worried about when we got Duke was that they wouldn't like each other, but no worries there.  They are great pals.

New washer and Dryer

New vanit 

What else has been going on in the past year?  Well, we had our first (and hopefully only) home claim.  We had one of our toilets overflow for 6 hours while we were gone one day.  Thank the Lord that it was clean water because I can only imagine how much worse it would have been if it was gray water.  The bathroom was a total loss.  We even needed to tear out the hall floor.  We have a continuous flooring from the hall to the kitchen/livingroom area, so guess what also needed to be replace?  You guessed it!  The flooring!  We ended up needing to redo the whole bathroom.  Bright side to it though was that we got a new washer/dryer set.  I let Chad pick it though since he predominately does the laundry.  My only specification was that there be a steam/wrinkle release option on the dryer.

Hall with flooring torn out

Bathroom after flooring was torn out

 Most of the damage was in the bathroom, but boy, you should have seen all the water in the basement!  We had so many industrial fans it was ridiculous! I want to say there were probably 7-8 going for a few days.  We were so happy to with how our insurance company handled it.  Very prompt it getting someone out here to handle it for us.  You hear these horror stories & never really know what to expect until it happens.  Not that I didn't have faith in the company, because if that was the case we wouldn't have been with them for over 12 years.

Anyway, other than that not much exciting happening in my life.  Just average day to day things like most of you probably experience too!  I think that I will get going, but I am going to try to make it a point to blog more often in the future.  Hope to see you soon!  Drop me a line if you would like, comments are appreciated!