Took my annual winter trip to NY last week. It's always a little dicey traveling in the winter up there and obviously not too many people do it as evidenced by the 1/2 full airplane. Only a few of us are brave enough. I was lucky again to swoop in without bad weather. Enjoy a good snow storm in the middle of the week then watch it melt and me get out of Dodge before a more serious wave of weather. It was fun to see the 6-8 inches of snow. Got to shovel a little and play with GMa's new little snow blower.
Course I had to steel my new little grandniece Emma. She is so dang cute I wanted to add her to the Nagel collection of Gbabies but I could see right off that I would probably have to lose an arm and a leg or more to get her out of Mike and Donna grasp. She was sure fun and I loved getting to see her several times. Had a great time visiting with Nicole, Jenny, and Steve too. What a great week. Too bad it went so fast. Now it's everyone elses turn to travel down south and see our new house.
My sweet little mother! I just love her so. We had such a nice visit. It is always so fun to have Lynn and Steve get to spend so much time with me too. I was definitely spoiled with Lynn's homemade beef vegetable soup and all the fun company.
Emma mugging for the camera.
And the icing on the cake was that waiting for me in Georgia was Anna and Adeline. Unfortunately Anna is real sick with her new baby brewing but I get to reap the benefit of having them here to help out. It's really tough having to play with Adeline and spend time with Anna.
And now for the beginning of the drum roll. The stone guys came this morning to do the fireplace. Here is a photo of the them getting everything covered and ready to begin.
This is the back side of the fireplace. There were 5 guys working. 2 on the front 2 on the back and the gopher guy hauling all the cement and stone. He had the hardest job I think. He must have been the new guy.
This is the gopher guy. There was a lot of stuff for this project. A small dumpster, a pile of sand, a palate of hearth stone, wood, wire sheets, scaffolding and of course all the bricks. The yard looked like we were invaded.
We had to pull the light fixture out of the way. This is a side view with the guys getting pretty high up. They worked really fast.
All the way up and now for the side.
TADA! This is the back of the fireplace on the kitchen side. It looks so amazing. Bill said it definitely was the WOW factor we were looking for. WE both just stared and stared and couldn't believe how beautiful it looked.
Sorry this is side ways but I couldn't get it to turn on the blog and I wanted to get the whole picture.
Amazing eh? A picture paints a thousand words but you will have to see it in person to get the WOW!
The hearth and mantel turned out fantastic. The morter is still wet but you can see the mantel and inset hearth pretty good here. We just love it. Now all we have left to do is the tile work and some odds and ends. I actually see light at the end of my tunnel now and it is so pretty. Won't have many more updates to go before you are back to a boring blog. I can't wait for boring!
Took my annual winter trip to NY last week. It's always a little dicey traveling in the winter up there and obviously not too many people do it as evidenced by the 1/2 full airplane. Only a few of us are brave enough. I was lucky again to swoop in without bad weather. Enjoy a good snow storm in the middle of the week then watch it melt and me get out of Dodge before a more serious wave of weather. It was fun to see the 6-8 inches of snow. Got to shovel a little and play with GMa's new little snow blower.
Course I had to steel my new little grandniece Emma. She is so dang cute I wanted to add her to the Nagel collection of Gbabies but I could see right off that I would probably have to lose an arm and a leg or more to get her out of Mike and Donna grasp. She was sure fun and I loved getting to see her several times. Had a great time visiting with Nicole, Jenny, and Steve too. What a great week. Too bad it went so fast. Now it's everyone elses turn to travel down south and see our new house.
My sweet little mother! I just love her so. We had such a nice visit. It is always so fun to have Lynn and Steve get to spend so much time with me too. I was definitely spoiled with Lynn's homemade beef vegetable soup and all the fun company.
Emma mugging for the camera.
And the icing on the cake was that waiting for me in Georgia was Anna and Adeline. Unfortunately Anna is real sick with her new baby brewing but I get to reap the benefit of having them here to help out. It's really tough having to play with Adeline and spend time with Anna.
And now for the beginning of the drum roll. The stone guys came this morning to do the fireplace. Here is a photo of the them getting everything covered and ready to begin.
This is the back side of the fireplace. There were 5 guys working. 2 on the front 2 on the back and the gopher guy hauling all the cement and stone. He had the hardest job I think. He must have been the new guy.
This is the gopher guy. There was a lot of stuff for this project. A small dumpster, a pile of sand, a palate of hearth stone, wood, wire sheets, scaffolding and of course all the bricks. The yard looked like we were invaded.
We had to pull the light fixture out of the way. This is a side view with the guys getting pretty high up. They worked really fast.
All the way up and now for the side. 
TADA! This is the back of the fireplace on the kitchen side. It looks so amazing. Bill said it definitely was the WOW factor we were looking for. WE both just stared and stared and couldn't believe how beautiful it looked.
Sorry this is side ways but I couldn't get it to turn on the blog and I wanted to get the whole picture.
Amazing eh? A picture paints a thousand words but you will have to see it in person to get the WOW!
The hearth and mantel turned out fantastic. The morter is still wet but you can see the mantel and inset hearth pretty good here. We just love it. Now all we have left to do is the tile work and some odds and ends. I actually see light at the end of my tunnel now and it is so pretty. Won't have many more updates to go before you are back to a boring blog. I can't wait for boring!
