We have to take a timeout for Halloween!

This was our first year to carve pumpkins. Mommy and Hailey drew the face on her pumpkin trying to keep it simple for daddy to carve. But the second pumpkin, Nick and Mike's, daddy was up for a challenge. The boys wanted their pumpkin to be scary.

DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT ROBBING OUR HOUSE. The Justice League is here to save the day! We were on a mission to rescue some candy from The Legion of Doom. We made out with quite a haul. Maybe we can eat it all by christmas.

Wow, it is really moving fast!!!!

You should have seen these guys balance on the little boards 30' in the air.





The first picture here shows how small the kids are compared to the front of the house. The second picture is on the back of the house. The tar paper is already up to start roofing soon.





The windows are going in and the overhang on the front of the house is starting to take shape.






This is from the catwalk upstairs looking down at the soon to be fireplace.







In this picture I am in the master bedroom and you can see my "time-out" room, a closed in patio upstairs. This is a very important room so mommy can keep her sanity.








On the left is the soon to be kitchen and on the right is the soon to be formal dinning room. I have a feeling this room is going to need a really big table.









Well hear we are today, November 9th. Starting tomorrow the plumber, electrician, and roofing men will all be out here. Almost all the windows are in, so we are almost "in the dry."










The back of the house is ready for rock and siding.











This is the side with the garage. No one around here has a garage. We are such weirdos.












I sure hope that the kids remember some of this. It is a real experience. All they really get is that they are going to have their very own bedrooms. They have always been together so we will see if they sleep apart when we move in.

Ready....Set.....Build

Here we GO!!!!!

From woods...to pasture...

to concrete... (and mud because it rained and yes the concrete trucks did get stuck)...

to house? (look at all the trucks, everyone wants to watch.)

It seems to be growing!

The three little guys in the picture are saying,

"Oh my goodness....it's going to be tall."

But it is all worth it because we have such a great ( filthy) cheering squad!!!

It has changed so much since these pictures were developed...we will have more soon!

Our family picture

This is gotcha day August 31, 2007. Can you believe it has been a year already. I will have to post a more recent family picture as soon as we take one.

Look I started a blog

Hey guys,

I finally did it. I thought that this would be a fun way of keeping up with my friends and family that are so far away. So much is changing at our house and they kids are getting so big.

This is the little yellow house we currently live in. In a matter of weeks the construction will begin on the new huge log house. I will try to post pictures of the new house as it progresses along.