Been a While

Thought a post was well overdue. We have started working on the house again just after Christmas was over and will get into what we are doing in later posts. This post is dedicated to the newest member of our Family:

Barkley
The pictures below where taken when Barkley was 16 weeks. We had just had him home. Barkley is a Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier. Some of you may be surprised that we got a dog due to my allergies, well, he is hypo-allergenic. Kind of like Poodles, which is another dog that I can be around. Barkley does not shed.

From Barkley Dawson

From Barkley Dawson

From Barkley Dawson

This is a picture of the first bath that we gave him

From Barkley Dawson

Because he likes to end up with this:

From Barkley Dawson

So we ended up building (and yes, we did this ourselves) a Vinyl fence that looks like this for a dog run so he did not get as dirty unsupervised:

From Barkley Dawson

4th Of July

During this holiday, out block decorates and has a block party on July 4th. I thought pictures of tree lined street with the bows was really cool looking.

Bouncin'

This is a couple of photos of the bouncer that we own with a couple of other Good Family Friends. This is the first time that we had this up at the new house.

This is what it is all about

So we where out in our yard today and the kids played out front on their bicycle and tricycle. The pictures really say it all ... to me .... this is what our new house is all about. Big yard for the kids to play in. It was such a nice evening to be outside.

Now Logan likes to push with this feet instead of Pedal the Tricycle. Turns out that his feet where going so fast that they blurred in the picture a little....LOL.

Here is what I do

A lot of you have asked me what I do. Sometimes hard to explain. I thought since I am at our Home Office in Chicago learning how to work on this new printing device, it would be a good time to take some pictures to show you.

These two Racks of computers are some of the computers that control the digital printing press. This is the front view first. Each Rack holds 9 computers - 18 computers in two Racks total.


This view is of the back side of the two computer Racks. Notice the detail on the cabling.


Here are a couple of views of the Printing Press itself.

Living Room Redone

As promised, I thought I would post some before and after pictures of the main living room.

Before


During



After
I will try to get a better picture than this. But gives you a look.

Ohh my gosh

We are soo blessed with the friends that we have. Our house is closet space challenged. It seems to be that way in the older houses. People did not have as much clothes in 1954 as we do today apparently.

Anyways, we where really blessed that some of our friends, Todd and Y, had a (spare?) Armoire sitting in storage that they wanted to get rid of. They asked if we could use it, we said yes, and they gave it to us! On top of that, I was gone on a Staff Retreat for Jr. High and could not help move this beast into our room. No, problem, Todd and some help moved this thing in on their own.

So I get home from this trip and see this thing in our room, it is awesome! It adds the missing closet space that we where missing. We are very happy with this new furniture and matches our bedroom set pretty well.

Rosa and I would like to send a BIG THANKS to Todd and Y for donating to Dana Place.

Thanks again guys.

See a picture of the piece below.