And here are some "DURING" pictures...

And FINALLY...

The "AFTER" pictures!!!:

Note: The cabinets are not really RED as they appear here... the colors are actually very deep, dark, country ones--and the burgundy is very, very dark. And--as you can see--we're not finished yet! James ripped the tile out in the kitchen (and the sheetrock it was unwilling to part with!) and he's got quite a mess to fix before I can purtify the rest of it. All in due time!

Finally dug some of my things out of the boxes. It feels sooooo much more like home now. :-)
I LOVE the picture above the piano. James got that for me for our anniversary a few years ago. :-)

This is the chuckwagon table we bought just before we moved in. It has three stools that hang underneath and the whole front of it folds down into a table large enough for all three kids to sit around to do school. It's sooooo great!!!

After all of our hard work Mom and I decided it was time to RELAX. So we pulled out the projector and hung a sheet over the front window and watched Pride and Prejudice tonight. What could be better?! Mom had never seen it before, so that made it extra fun. The greatest part is that all of our neighbors down the hill could have been watching it with us--

I went outside and took this picture of our front window. You could see a perfectly clear reverse image out there! Ha! How fun is that?! In the summertime we could set up chairs out there and watch movies from the deck, if only it wasn't for the bar going down the center of the windows. Ha!

It has been soooooooo great having Mom here, especially these "extra" days. I told her that hundreds of thousands of people have been inconvenienced by this American Airlines thing... all so God could give her a few more days with us--she must be one of His favorite people. Ha! It really has been nice.

James left today to go to Hatch for their Youth Emphasis Week. He's preaching tonight and tomorrow night, then they'll have a bon fire and Bible study or something on Saturday. He'll visit the church in Alamogordo on Sunday and then it's off to Arizona to help out in the Spanish BTI there. He'll be gone for quite a while, so it's great that Mom's here for at least the first couple of days and we can Girl Party it a little bit. :-) She's set to fly out very, very early on Saturday morning. We'll see!

Well, I should go. No need jabbering a whole lot--I already posted a plethora of pictures. :-) I'll fill you in on some of the details later on. (If I can remember them!) Bye!!!

~Rebekah~