It has been a while. Something like, oh, two years maybe?

Things that have happened since the site was last around:

• We received a little guy into our lives, Brendan James
• I graduated from the University of North Dakota with a B.S. in Computer Science
• We moved from Grand Forks, ND to Eden Prairie, MN
• I took a job with Rosemount, Inc (Emerson Process Management)
• Casey took a job with ACR Homes
• We bought a house… in Grand Forks, ND

So back to North Dakota we go. This blog will end up being both a personal blog, and a house blog as we document the updates to our 1928 home.

For the house, here are the things we have in mind:

• Flipping the stairs 180 degrees back to where they were originally
• Ripping out the second floor kitchen
• Add a bedroom to the basement
• Add a recreation room to the basement (TV + foosball)
• Install a clawfoot tub in the upstairs bathroom
• Build a new garage (original is much too small, about a foot of room on each side of our Pontiac Grand Ams, not to mention the fact that the foundation is literally tilting to the left a couple inches)
• Kill the carpenter ants…

Hopefully Casey will chime in time to time too.

It’s going to be a blast