The Ma Family

bill, diane, rylee, and brynn

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Replacing Smoke/CO detectors

Monday, February 9th, 2009 at 8:14 pm by Bill

So my project this past Saturday was to reevaluate the fire safety in our new house.
First up were the smoke detectors. We had seven FireX-brand smoke detectors hard-wired throughout the house: one in each of four bedrooms, one in the upstairs hallway, and one each on the first floor and in the basement. By being [...]

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A few room makeovers

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 at 6:45 pm by Bill

We’re finally getting around to finishing up the few projects that we started over the holiday break. Here are some pictures:
Rylee’s bedroom
Rylee was living in a former boy’s room for five months before we finally got it painted. As you can see from the before pictures, this was the famous “closet door” room. The paint [...]

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Before and After

Sunday, September 28th, 2008 at 9:13 am by Diane

Here is a photo of the front of our house when we moved in just over a month ago.  When we looked at the house we knew that many of the shrubs out front would have to go.  There really were entirely too many of them and they were all big.
Fortunately we have a landscaper [...]

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We’re moving!

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 at 7:03 am by Bill

Some of you probably knew that we’ve been looking to move for a while now. Since Rylee was born, it has seemed that her stuff has completely taken over our townhouse.
Well, it’s official: We’re moving!
We found a single family home that we liked about two weeks ago and put in our offer.  At the same [...]

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