has begun
Hard to believe this will be our new family room.
The pile of dirt is our new screened porch
This trench is for all our power lines, which are getting buried.
and the gutter, damaged again!
Monthly Archives: August 2007
Holiday News
I know it seems early to be thinking about the holidays but I wanted to let everyone know (and we will be sending out a newsletter stating this as well) that all “design your own” bags will have to be ordered by October 1st. In an effort to actually enjoy the holiday season this year,...
Love Him
I did this scrapbook layout a few years ago about how lucky I am to have him
I don’t tell him enough. We have been together a long time, a couple moves across the country, a few kids, no income, decent income, school, more school, ups and down. Being supportive with all my hair-brain ideas, lets...
Braces here we come
Both of the older boys went to the Orthodontist yesterday for the initial consultation. The good news is that Blake can wait another 18 months, but Austin is good to go. He has a few more loose teeth that need to come out, in fact he lost one last night at football practice. He is...
Tomatillos
My friend Julie gave me this little basket of tomatillos that her husband grew in their backyard. She wasn’t sure what to do with them. We love tomatillos and when we moved up here from Texas we had the hardest time finding them. Everytime I buy them at the store, someone nearby always asks me...
Downside of a remodel
The mess. Not a little messy, a lot messy. I used to have a nice yard, in fact it was the reason we bought the house.
Not so much anymore.
The workers got a lot of brick laid today- that’s the good part.
Good thing is next year they won’t have this nice orange spray paint
The cement is...
Cosi
Loaded the kids up today for a trip to our local science museum.
It was weird that my older kids have grown out of KidSpace, but not Cole. He loved it.
The water area is so fun and after looking at the baby table I had the biggest urge to dig out my pictures of Blake...
Down days
Do you ever have them?
No reason in particular but lots of reasons piled together?
Sometimes the best cure is a good cry, and today what finally pushed me over the edge was reading this blog post about death of Audrey the dog.
Someone posted this poem in the comment section
The House Dog’s Grave
by Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)
I’ve changed...
Construction Day 7
Today was interesting. The cement truck couldn’t make it all the way into the backyard so the worker guys had to haul the cement by using wheel barrels. They weren’t happy and it was a sticky day. I took Andy’s advice on how to keep workers happy and took them a big jug of lemonade.
Once...
Packing up
Our contractor has informed us that we need to start packing things up. How we are going to live in this house while it is being remodeled I have no idea. We don’t really have any rooms that aren’t getting touched. Insane. This means packing up most of our stuff.
One thing I did today was...
