WE ARE IN OUR HOUSE!!!!!

I do not know if you can tell but I am excited that WE ARE IN OUR HOUSE!! It took a long time but everything looks great. I forgot to take a picture of the new colors on the outside so I will have to add that later.

Here are some before and afters

As you walk in the front door, you might notice that you can see the kitchen and there is not big mushroom.

Here is your view if turned around and looked from the back of the house to the front. I know what you are all thinking, we should have kept the kitchen the same.

These are the bedrooms upstairs. The before does not exist because this was the attic. The guest room is green and our room is the red-orange.

Laura's Contribution

My contribution will be some pictures of the wedding, hiking, and our wedding. SO MUCH FUN!!!

The House Tour

House Tour Part Two

What a summer!

Laura and I are back in Colorado and suddenly our world is turning upside down!  The times they are a changin'.  First, we got back to Coly and instantly school began--big change #1.  At school Laura (my wife) is now Laura Manker--big change #2.  Big change #3 is that we have a new roomie!  I never thought I'd get married, go on the honeymoon with my brother and my wife's parents, and then have a new roommate 2 months after our big day!  But Scott is easy to get along with and an interesting guy who we met through Zachis actually.  The last big change or rather non-change is that the house still is not finished.  We think it will be done by the middle of September (we're hoping).  That will be the most exciting time of our nascent life together.  

Some New Holes

A tornado came and ripped the front siding off.  NOT.  It was the demolition crew.

Here is the pic from the back.  This is what our new house is going to look like from the garage.  Our plan is to throw on a deck in the back and a balcony off the back gable.  We've got a mountain and city view!

Down to studs.

I know, this is where I should have put a picture of myself with my shirt off--I'm failing my Manker sense of humor by not doing it--oh well.