Easter 2009

The kids were checking out their bounty after finding Easter eggs at church Wednesday before Easter.



Our boys all dressed up. They sure looked sharp.



Hailey is always ready to strike a pose.




All the girls Easter Sunday.

All the boys Easter Sunday.

Delays.......Another 2 months and counting

Roy (Our rock man) has been working hard to get all the rock on the house. All that is left is the rock on the bottom of the pillars and he is about to get those whooped.

Roy added a star above the front window for added character.

The back of the house is almost finished as well.

Mike (cabinet man) did a great job making the cabinets. The granite was put on this last week. We just need some stain and paint !!!

Oh, yea.......and some more rock. The arch is going to be rocked as well as the island.

We have the gameroom about done. We have to seal and polyurethane everything and add some carpet and it will be done.

These are the beams above the livingroom. It's just a matter of time before we find the boys hanging from them.

This is another picture of the logs. I was standing on the catwalk looking over rather than under them.

These are the logs above the catwalk. The handrails will be put in later this week, then we don't have to worry about anyone falling over.




This is the rest of the logs under the catwalk. The men are glad to be done with all the logs.

2 months and counting

Mike Waldon has custom made the cabinets from knotty alder and they are being installed.

We have to pick the stain and Curtis and I cannot come to a decision. We may just seal them and be done with it.

The railings for the stairs are here and are ready to be installed.

The boards on the walls and ceiling are going up. It is really starting to look like a house.

The columns are going on the walls . The men are putting them up by hands. These beams are a foot wide and very long. This weekend will be fun to watch because the will be putting the beams across the living room. Someone has to hold it up while the other bolts it in. I sure hope that no one will get hurt.

Problem Pond SOLVED

Looks like the pond should go away soon. Well, I guess that the green spot they left should be a very fertile place to grow a garden. Just kidding! Thanks for the prayers.

Our unwanted mystery pond

These picture were taken not very long ago. We have been having a dispute with our soon to be neighbors over their septic tank running over to our land. This has been going on for at least a year. The neighbors don't see that the sewage as any problem. This is not a puddle but a small pond of poo.

Thankfully the State of Texas has decided to help us and on March 16 th we have a court date. I guess that the EPA doesn't approve of sewage dumping like the neighbors were hoping for. We do not want to be ugly but we do have 3 small children that are drawn to "mud" and I don't want them coming home covered in "this".

I wish that I could say it is just barely on our property but it is not. Please pray for us that we can get the poo cleaned up without us getting to pooy with each other.

The project room (game room)

This is the Curtis project game room. Curtis, his parents, and grandpa Hamilton have been working on this room together. Curtis wanted one room in the house that he could say he did. (The rest of the house is done by workers or the contractor.) I think it is turning out great. The bottom 3 feet of wall is tin and the rest is cedar that came from the land. Curtis had some cedar trees cut into boards. The ceiling is covered in the tin also.

Pop Hamilton is doing alot of the work during the week when Curtis and his dad are at work.

The only part of this room that Curtis didn't do is the insulation and the framing.

Randy is holding the huge boards up on the ceiling and waiting on Curtis to nail them in and cut them just right to leave room for lighting, not to mention the strange angles in the ceiling.

Michael took this picture. I guess it is true little kids are better at electronics than adults. I didn't know he even knew how to turn the camera on, much less take a picture. This is what the room looked like before the tin and cedar.

This the only clue I had as to who took the mystery pictures. I will have to talk to him about not leaving pictures of the crook behind.

We had to stop every once in a while to say "cheese". I was hoping that we didn't have to use this picture for insurance purposes if they fell off of this scaffolding.

Lets Rock!!

We are very lucky that the gentleman we purchased the rock from is laying it himself. You can tell that he takes great pride in his work. It looks great. The week we decided to start was a rainy week, so he started rocking under the porch in the back. It was not long before he ran out of work under the roof.








When the sun came back out they started the back wall on the side of the garage.







It is only 30 something feet in the air and the chimney is looking great too. It is interesting to watch them find the exact rock for each spot. They have their work cut out for them.