Last Weekend

Meg decided to put the left over wood to use and make Summer blocks to sell at the boutique!

Brayden was so excited cause it was his birthday and he had a party that night and he got to drive the 4 wheeler most of the day!!!

We put the party guests to work lifting a couple of the HUGE garage walls!  These are in two parts and they are still buggers to get up!

First we lift them up onto the foundation....

Then at the count of three EVERYONE lifts together

Almost there... oh yeah we ALSO have to get the walls onto the bolts that are in the cement so we can bolt the wall to the foundation!!!

SUCCESS!

Morgan made Brayden an awesome carrot cake from scratch.... it wasn't pretty... but it sure tasted good!

As Promised

Today and yesterday we worked on the exterior garage walls until we ran out of 16 foot 2" x 6" boards...  Unfortunately (or fortunately) more are coming tomorrow.

This is what the house looks like from across the street.  

Brayden still likes to "do it myself".

In the midst of all of this Morgan had her spring piano recital.  She played Falling Slowly and did a great job.

While we were at the recital... Russ and Brayden built my closet, linen closet, bathroom, bedroom, coat closet and shower walls.

These are the walls that we have left upstairs.  We ran out of nails today too!  I guess we will be sheeting exterior walls until the delivery trucks get here tomorrow!!!

I'm Behind!

I'm behind on posting about the house!  We just get so busy working that I forget to get the camera!  I will post what it looks like tomorrow.... tomorrow!

Here is our sad little raspberry bushes!  I have dreams of rows and rows!  Grandpas S. is going to give us more starts so we can have a row of blackberries too!

Russ' friend from work came and helped us out for a few hours!  The extra muscle power really helped out with those walls that were done but we hadn't lifted them up yet!

Yeah! It's finally here!

This is Meg's best effort at a hip hurrah jump!

3 graduations done... 2 more kids to go!

Congrats Meg... you did it!

Catching up!

It's been a little while but this is our nice new basement floor.

This is the 3rd car garage that will be used for Make and Takes.

Russ building the pony walls.

Ben came and helped us to set the floor joists!  Our fabulous neighbor helped us too!

Meg had her awards banquet. Wow this girl has accomplished so much already!

Went to Natalie & Chris' wedding!  I wonder if they have stopped grinning from ear to ear yet.

Sunday Meg had her seminary graduation... only one more to go!

Special Delivery!!!

Look what came in the mail today special delivery from California!!!  Yes they are limes... and yes they are very yellow!

Snake Hunters

Last weekend the kids found a gardeners snake nest.

Surprisingly Morgan is less squirmy about snakes than the rest of the kids.

I think sometimes Brayden has to act tough so he's not wimpier than his baby sister.

They ended up bringing home 9 or 10.... they said there was tons!!!  My only demand was that they be released far from our yard... its not fun to come across one while mowing the lawn!