The Door

The front door of our house is {red}.  My favorite color – Aaron’s least favorite color.  When we decided to paint our new home dark gray with white trim, he indicated that he thought the door should be white, too.  I really wanted a colorful door, but I could not think of any color that [...]

Open House

You are invited to an Open House/Housewarming Party!
Sunday, July 26, 2009
1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Aaron & Amy Tolar’s Home
81690 Pleasant View Road
We were finally able to schedule the Open House Party for our Dream Home.  If you have followed the construction process and would like to see the final result, you are welcome to come.
Please [...]

And So It Ends

I posted a major update on our Dream Home Blog tonight.  The construction process is slowing down – it’s nearly at a stand-still.  Not because of any problems or hold-ups, but because we are pretty much done with it!  We have several loose ends to tie up, and once they are done my parents will be [...]

Christmas Eve (Finally!)

Christmas Eve was WONDERFUL!  Aaron and I got up early and moved our couch and a chair so that when our guests came over they didn’t have to sit in lawn chairs anymore.  Moving in has been such a relief.  It’s the final step – the REALITY of this project we’ve been working on.
Early afternoon Christmas [...]

Amazing

Amazing stuff happening at the Tolar Dream Home.  Click the links to the left to check it all out!
Do you know what the significance of these two pictures is?  I know it looks like a bunch of laundry baskets full of crap.  It’s not.  It is so much more than that.  These two pictures represent [...]

Christmas Came Early!

Early this fall, Aaron and I made the decision that we were going to make a huge cut to our Christmas Budget because we are getting this beautiful new home right at Christmas time.  The girlies don’t really need anything, and we have such a big family, they definitely won’t be going without.  It not only made [...]

No Internet

Our phones have been moved to the new house, and that means that our DSL has been moved, as well.  Unfortunately, the DSL is not working at the new house yet, so Internet Access for us is sporadic.
Fortunately, at the old house, I can pick up a signal from EZ Wireless in Hermiston, so I’m [...]

I don’t cry!

I just don’t.  For me to cry is monumental and rare.  I do get emotional, and it’s not that I’m uncaring, I’m just not a crier.  Usually.  I have cried more in the past two days than I have cried in the past two years.
The past month(s) have been a huge struggle, and I have [...]

I know, I know . . .

I said I wasn’t going to post over here to tell you to go look at our home progress, but I can’t help it.
YOU HAVE TO GO LOOK AT OUR BATHROOM TILE!  My dad finished the tub surround tile, and it is absolutely GORGEOUS!!!
Okay, you don’t have to, but I think you should – my [...]

Feeds – Check ‘Em Out

I added feeds from my other blogs on the upper left hand side of this blog.  I figured it was easier for everyone to look there for updates to our Home Construction project than it was for me to post here that I had posted there.
I’m tring to post over there on a daily basis [...]