Thanksgiving!

The girls annual Thanksgiving Day picture which always takes a few "takes."

Blueberry Cheesecake.....to die for!!!!! YUM!!!

Jax-man

Waiting for turkey!

Watching football and blocking the camera!

The Beast!

Thanksgiving was awesome once again, thank you Liz, my sister, for another wonderful dinner! And as with every year we all ate too much, how can you not with all the good food! Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and remembers to give thanks for everything we all have, we are all very blessed with such wonderful family!

The Girls!

Well I couldn't post pictures of the boys and not give the girls equal time so here is a bunch of the girls in our family! Randy and I have 4 beautiful daughters and our oldest, Courtney, has 2 beautiful little girls. When our girls were little Randy got a lot of kidding about being out numbered but I'm afraid the boys are catching up! Right now it is 8 boys to 7 girls, Courtney is due in 3 weeks, maybe she will tie it up with 8 boys and 8 girls. Stay tuned!

Here is Lia and Peyton at the beach this past summer. Lia is 8.

And Austyn who is 5 and every bit a princess as you can see! She dresses like this most every day. It is always a challenge to get her to wear something else to school.

Courtney our oldest daughter with Peyton and Lia at a school roller skating trip.

And I could not forget a picture of Mallory on the left and Megan on the right with one of their most favorite Uncles, Ron. We only get to see him a few times a year and the girls were standing up at a wedding of a mutual friend, so pictures needed to be taken!

And here is Mallory at another wedding she stood up for, holding her oldest son Luke.

Number 3 daughter Megan with Lia, Austyn and Luke. The girls had all just gotten their hair cut and Luke snuck in there for a picture. Megan is also Lukes godmother.

Here are all 4 girls with Randy, all of us attending another softball game this past summer. Starting from the left we have Casey, Mallory, Randy, Megan and Courtney.

And yet another softball game with Courtney, Mallory and Casey. Not sure where Megan is, most likely working, the girls works a lot!

Little Jax and his godmother Casey.

Our 2 grandaughters, Austyn sitting and Lia standing. If I remember right they were watching Luke running crazy thru the water in the huge sandbox at the ball park. Definitely going to have to post some of those pictures.

Well here are all our girls. We are also lucky to have such wonderful girls in our lives. We are so very proud of our daughters, they have grown into such awesome young ladies who we enjoy being with every day. And as every parent probably feels we don't tell them enough how much we love them, I can only hope that they know that we do.

Mantle and Entry Door in Iowa!

Since the 30th of August we have been working on two jobs and not small jobs I might add. The kitchen and wet bar in the last post and this post which consists of all the pictures below and more which I didn't take pictures of. The home which we did this mantle and front door in we also did a Quarter Sawn Oak Kitchen, see previous posts. This family has had a lot of problems this summer with their air conditioning and it ended up warping all the trim in their newly renovated basement. So they asked us to come down and replace all the trim around the windows and doors and all of the base trim. As we were discussing and planning when to go down to fix everything the upstairs new addition started having the same problems. So we ended up not only doing the basement but also the upstairs addition as well. Just a side note, whenever varnishing anything always remember to varnish/seal the wood on all sides otherwise this is what happens, the wood sucks up the moisture on the unsealed side and begins to warp and twist causing tons of problems! From the upstairs new addition we moved into the living room and the entry way. The existing mantle was also damaged so we built a new one almost like the old one but Randy added a few new things and we built a new entry door. This door is not bought from anywhere Randy built the whole thing, side panels, door and frame. We also did some work for another family in town, some small trimming in of windows and doors, hung two closet doors, fixed some older doors in the home and built two cherry benches for them to match their dinning room set. This family has 6 children and his work is taking them to Germany for 3 years so they were trying to get the house in order so that they can lease it out while they are gone. So needless to say we have had an extremely busy 10 weeks and we are very glad to be back home and done with jobs for a little while. Randy is especially happy because deer hunting is starting this weekend and he always looks forward to that. I also have to give my husband a lot of credit for how much work he has gotten done in these last few months because he also holds down a 40 hour a week job at a door plant here in town. So he is very happy to be looking forward to some time off to go chase some deer and hopefully bag a big buck. So enjoy the following pictures and if there is anyone else out there going hunting good luck and be safe!

Here is an example of one of the windows Randy trimmed in.

And the outside of the oak entry door.

The inside of the entry door.

Man at work!

New mantle-Quarter Sawn Oak.

And one of the cherry benches.

Maple Kitchen and Wet Bar in Wausau

Kitchen

Wet Bar in dining room.

Extra deep drawer for dishes.

Roll out shelving, these were in two cabinets.

Side view of the nine foot island. Notice the finished raised panel side and front. All of this was built in our shop we do not out source anything.

Large pantry. Notice the detail Randy does on the base, looks more like a piece of furniture.

Pantry again with doors open, lots and lots of room!

Back side of island. Again notice the large base at the bottom of the island which wraps all the way around the island.

These are maple cabinets with a custom color matched stain. All of these cabinets including the wet bar and the dining room base trim and crown trim was completed in 8 weeks from the time the customer ordered it. The only thing we did not do was the granite which the customer got from a company in Green Bay. They did an excellent job on the countertop, just beautiful! Also when we install someone's cabinets, if they have the handles/knobs for the doors and drawers we will install those.