Dawn Moving Back Home

Well, the day every parent dreads and hates is just around the corner from us now.  Dawn has decided she will be attending college in Georgia.  Therefore Aug 22nd (3 weeks ) she will be moving back to Moultrie.  She is going to be living with Jessica and Shaun for one year to gain her residency back in order to get in state tuition. 
Dawn has been offered 2 jobs to work during that year.  One of which is in the ER in Tifton and the other is at the  YMCA in Moultrie.  I honestly hope she take the YMCA so there wont be any commuting to work everyday.  So good news for family back home, but sad sad news for me and Mandy.  We have discussed this and prayed about it and this seems to be the best thing for Dawn.

So, one year in Moultrie working and living and she will start the following year at VSU.  Or that is plan as of now.  Due to the fact that she graduated a year early I think it will be a good thing to get another year under her belt before jumping right into college. 

Also, Dawn has started a new blog as well.  Check her facebook page out to get the link.  Her first post was pretty powerful..   Y'all take care.  

New House Update

So, we spent our entire weekend of the 4th moving into our new house.  Since then Mandy and I have worked every day and all last weekend either in the house or in the yards.  The folks before us were obviously not yard people.  Paul (our shop superintendent and my best friend here in Idaho) showed up to help me all day Saturday to clean up the back yard.  After 2 full (and I mean FULL) truckloads of pieces of forest I finally got the back yard presentable.  Heck, I even found a full size purple plum tree in the corner of the yard.

We still have an office which is untouched and full of boxes and an empty basement..  The basement is another story and will be a work in progress.  The basement has a 3rd den or living area which ever you want to call it, a 5th bedroom, and a full bath.  Mandy has generously given me the base to do whatever I want to do with it since the main floor has a living room and a den already.  I am very surprised she said that because there is no telling just how awesome this thing is going to get.. That will be later blog post as it progresses. 

Anyway here is where we are so far.. Pictures below..
**Please do not show Dawn and Allie Rai this post.. Mandy has not sent them a single picture of anything.. She wants everything to be surprised when they get home..

Front

Kitchen

Breakfast Area & Living Room (View From Kitchen)

 

Breakfast Area and Kitchen (View From Living Room)

Entry

View of Entry from top of stairs

Dining Room

Den

Master Bed Rm

Mandy's Favorite.. her new 250sq ft. closet

Unfinished portion of Basement for Storage

Part of back yard..