My Fall Project

Well, I've since tried to work on this post a couple of times but my computer has been slow to update. I'll try this again! I was going to share my prideful project from this fall.

A few years back my grandparents had down sized their home to an independent living apartment in a retirement community. I was blessed to receive my grandmother's table, chairs, china hutch and her beautiful china. However, I was a student at the time and living in a tiny apartment and didn't have the space for such a great gift, then I moved to Austin where we also had zero room. Now that we're settled into our new home in KC we have a perfect space for this gift. We picked the table, hutch and chairs up this fall.....it was just a little different than I had remembered it to be.

Before

After

The semi-finished product!!!

Newly refinished/restained/re-upholstered chairs

This was my first project I've been able to fly mostly solo on. Rob did show me a few techniques to get me started but I was able to complete a majority of the project on my own including stripping all the chairs and the china hutch, then sanding them all, staining them all, then putting a finish solution onto them all. It took me a a full weekend and two week nights to complete but I was so proud I created a quality product we'll be able to enjoy for many years to come. This spring I'm planning on finishing the table and hopefully a dresser in our guest room.

Rob told me I made the A team on this project, thank goodness I've upgraded from the C team painting projects of the past!!!!

Life lately

Okay, so I'm officially horrible with new year's resolutions. I had every intention of writing my thoughts and sharing our daily happenings more freqently, however i've just been so distracted lately. Rob and I have recently had a little bad news our way recently and I've been reflecting on the challenges that God has given us. We were expecting a little one to arrive in september and were completely elated as this exciting news happened for us much more quickly than we had anticipated. Unfortunately when we went to our first appointment, the baby had stopped growing a couple weeks prior. I had to undergo a minor surgical procedure on Valentines Day. I've been recouperating well with the support of Rob & our families. It has been very difficult to not be mad or discouraged with this dissappointing news but I know in my heart this baby was just not healthy and meant to be here with us. We're looking forward to trying again in the near future, keep us in your thoughts and prayers that we'll be successful soon and have GOOD news to share with everyone.

Thanks for your support!
Rob, Ashley, Porter & Tripp

We're Back!

So, wow! It has been incredibly too long since I've been on here to update the blog. So long in fact, Rob has continued to bug me to update it for the past two months. I've never been too big into new year's resolutions but have been working hard on eating better and taking the stairs at work everyday. Now it's time to filter in one more to get on here more often and keep our families and friends up to date on our daily happenings! So definitely look for a few more updates in the future.