Utterly Mielke :-)

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Home Improvement!!!!

I feel like one of those TV shows where they come in and totally renovate your house except we're the ones doing all of the renovating! If you want to see before and after pic's check out my facebook, I got tired of trying to do that twice! Hope you enjoy the picture tour!

Here's Dan's part of the house! He asked if he could do what he wanted
with the basement and so he has turned it into another
guest room with a Roman theme! It's pretty cool! He's got some neat ideas!

He painted the floor to make it look like marble!
The floor drain now has a gold painted cover on it as well!

Sterling helping Dan paint the window's! Dan painted the pillars as well!
He's pretty talented! They are made out of cardboard!

Here's the painting in progress!

Here it is before the marble look!

The floor in the study!

This used to be the room with the icky trim!
It is now our mocha room! :-) I can't wait to get a coffee
scented candle to burn in here! This is our guest room and study
so it will be nice and cozy for visitors!

I'm not sure what happened to this picture,
but it's the study from inside the closet!

Marcus's Room! It will be decorated in Minnesota Vikings stuff!
Shh. . . don't tell my dad . . . ( a Green Bay Packers Fan!)

Still needs some touch up on the trim, but it's almost done!

The closet and windows

The pretty window in the master bedroom!

From inside the closet. We are still going to do one more coat of red on this wall!

Looking towards the hallway!

The living room, looking from the dining room!

The dining room, looking from the living room!

These floors just shine! :-)

The project still in progress!! The kitchen!

Dan laying the underlayment!

Dan's friend, Sterling, helping!

And there you have it! An update on the house! There is way more detailed stuff on my facebook, so check it out there. We are no where near done, but are hoping to move in this Monday! I'd like to make it resemble a home a little bit just so that we can be ready for when Marcus decides to come! Time is flying by so fast! I sure hope we can get it all done before then!

Pregnant Pictures!

OKAY FINE! I WILL POST MY BIG FAT BELLY FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE!!!!!!!

I will officially be 35 weeks on Sunday giving me 5 weeks left! Can you believe it!?
I keep wondering what it will be like to hold my son and not have to
give him back to anyone before we go home!! He's a squirmer and likes to stay up
late so I'm sure that we'll be a busy bundle of joy! I'm so excited and so ready for this though.
9 months is a long time and I'm ready to hold this little gift of life!!
Marcus Gideon Mielke, Mama loves you and can't wait to look into your precious face!

Grandpa's 80th birthday party!

Last weekend Daniel and I went to Milltown to celebrate Grandpa Ekblad's 80th birthday! Pretty exciting! We had a lot of fun visiting with family and playing games!

Monday, December 29, 2008

I'll be Home for Christmas!

It was really neat to get to go home for Christmas! Last year we were on our honeymoon for Christmas which was totally amazing, but there's nothing like being home! Especially when you're surprising the family! I called Charise, my informant :-), and she got it all worked out for us to come unbeknownst (sp?) to our parents! I loved surprising them. The church was having a Christmas Eve service at my parents house and they were going forever. Dan and I were going to carol 'I'll be Home for Christmas' to them, but decided to call Daddy 1st to find out if they were done with the service yet. When he answered we knew that they were all just visiting and so we started singing over the phone to Daddy and then walked in the house while we were still on the phone singing :-) It was pretty cool! We had a wonderful time of fellowship. It was especially nice 'cause there was nothing else going on. I love coming home for church events, but it does make it harder to just be with family. It was a very precious time even if Daddy and Dan beat Mama and i in Rook :-) I can't remember the last time we had time to play a game when we were home! It was fun!

This is the fort that Dan helped the boys make!
It's on top of the huge snow pile that the plows made and goes
into an 'under ground tunnel' It's pretty cool!

The underground tunnel in the process of being made!

We all met in Mankato for lunch with the Streblows!
It was really fun, and of Course Dan really appreciated
real food :-)

Grandpa must have had quite the secret! :-)

It was Dan's idea to surprise my parents since it wasn't going to work to go to
his parents. It was really fun and it worked to! You should have seen their faces!!!
Thanks Daniel!

This is Mama and I trying to smile good for the camera and
well you can see how well that went :-)

Daddy and Charity!

Justus was so fun! We sang together at the piano! His voice is
maturing so much, it's really neat!

Not sure what they were doing :-)

Same for these two :-)

All of us at Old Country Buffet. (Daddy's taking the pic!)

I am so cool in Uncle Johnathan's sunglasses!

Daddy with his girls!

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

We Bought A House!

Here's some pictures of our house in Albert Lea, MN. There's a lot more, but didn't have time to post them. We have a lot of work to do to make it really nice, but I'm excited to watch it turn into our home.

Side/Front view!

Dining Room

Living Room

Marcus's Room. (Will be painting this one sometime)

Master Bedroom

Monday, November 3, 2008

Birthday Blast! :-)

Last weekend Daniel and I went home for the weekend and celebrated 3 birthdays in the family! My mom had her birthday Oct. 26th, Johnathan had his b-day on Halloween, and Kevin turned 1 year old on November 4th! So we had a big birthday party for all 3 of them! It was so fun to be all together. Aunt Darlene and her family came too. Family is such a blessing!