Next time they're in Texas there will be three!

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Andy and Bethany called from Michigan with the good news that another Brockman baby is on the way! Due date is end of May or first of June so if you do the math, you'll see that Baby Brockman may be able to claim some Texas heritage!
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A cousin for Lily Belle! Uncle Andy got some practice in during his summer stay in San Antonio.
Aunt Bethany will be a great mom!
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Proud parents to be and we are very proud grandparents to be as well!

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Just in case you missed the round of phone calls and e-mails that went out with this news, we wanted to be sure you knew our happy news! You can keep up with Andy and Bethany and read their announcement at http://backinmichigan.blogspot.com/. We will have to re-do the budget and make a savings plan for frequent trips to Michigan. Being a grandparent is just too much fun to miss out on any opportunity to watch them grow and change!

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The last six weeks have been fairly normal for our life here in Tobin Hill. We continue to have company and try to take care of details needed to finish rooms. The occasion of the "Two Years Anniversary" inspired us to work on getting all the "before" pictures organized so we can match up some good "after" shots of upstairs, downstairs, inside, and out. We just shake our heads to see how bad it was. Bo has been so steady and thorough and it is really paying off as we hang doors and transom windows and give attention to items that are really finishing touches. We even hung two of the shades last week that we bought 14 months ago! The wrought iron fence was installed this month and really makes the house look classy.
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I am going to post a few pictures of visitors and details just to let you know we have not been sitting around watching soap operas and eating bon bons rather than keeping up with the blog.
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Tune in soon for some of the before and after shots.

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Bo's brother Robert and his family visited this month with Byrl and Virginia. Rob's fiancee, Kim, got an introduction to San Antonio.

Steven and Michelle visited and shared the news that their family of four will become five this spring! ..
The claw foot tub is a favorite spot for Lily and Maddie Bo made a shelf for the downstairs bathroom


Friends from church, John, Donna, Christopher, and Charles with Bo

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Installation of the new fence




Here is how the front of the house looks now.


This is how it looked when we bought the house two years ago .

This is how it looked in the mid 80's

Window shades installed at the bottom of the stairway

You can see how much work it takes to get a door stripped down and stained. There were more than 30 in the house
The transom windows had been painted over so the glass as well as the wood needed stripping

Here is what it looked like before


What an improvement!

Bars are finally off the front window.