House pics

Hey Dad, here is an update on our house. Doesn't it look beautiful!? Click on the picture to make it larger. I forgot to take a picture of the security system but it is up and running. : )

This is our future backyard

The red thing is a smoke detector.

4th of July, boating, and the house

Here is the 4th of July. It was filled with good food, family, swimming, and a little fireworks.

We went on the boat when Christine came and had a blast. I love going on the tube with the kids, especially Carter and Josh who was loving every minute of it.

Here is the house. We still have quite a bit to do. But we are hoping to be done in less than 30 days!

Mudroom

Playroom

Dining room (its filled with our cabinets and flooring right now)

Kitchen (two pendant lights are still in the box, we have white cabinets with a dark stained island)

Family Room (we will have tile around the firplace, built ins on both sides and a tv in the middle)

Entry (theres the little door for the kiddos for under the stairs, the paints really not quite this bright)

Looking at the entry from upstairs

Mast bedroom(again looks brighter here)

Mast bath

Kids bath

kids shower

Carters bedroom

lillys bedroom

Evans bedroom isnt pictured there isnt a light hanging yet and it was just too dark

Family room

My little helper!

Go, go. go

Today we finished painting, our cabinets for our house arrived, we got ready to order tile tomorrow, got ready for the electrician tomorrow, put a coat of varnish on our front door. Painted pictures, played hide and go seek in the dirt , gave baths, read books, played monsters, played princesses, jumped on the trampoline, pushed swings, went swimming, ate pizza, gave baths, put kids to bed. It's midnight and I think I will go make my dad cookies for all the time he spends on our house. And then I will wake up at 6 am with Carter. And yes this is a typical day and I'm lovin it : ) Just don't ask Tim about the laundry, it's kind of a sore subject these days. ; )

I'm back!

So after a wonderful weekend spent in Seattle with the family looking at house stuff and a husband saying instead of reading every other blog you should write on ours, I decided it was time to update. So here it is. . .

Our house is still buying built or worked on. It's built, we have all the hvac, plumbing, wiring, and half of the insulation done. Friday the drywall people are suppose to start. We have got to pick out everything for the house which has been fun, stressful, and a long process. Mostly fun though especially when you finally decide and then can look back and sigh with relief that you think you might have made the right decision. You can probably tell that I have a hard time making decisions. There are so many choices out there. For the finishing work we have picked out appliances, cabinets, some lights, exterior doors, and a few bathroom fixtures. We still need to decide on paint colors, flooring, stair railing, tile, counter tops, sinks, more lights, interior doors, trim, casing, baseboards, toilets, and the list goes on.
We hope to be moving in sometime in August; beginning, end we really don't know. In the meantime though I'm refinishing a table and reupholstering and painting chairs for our dining room, making a bench for our foyer, and looking at a million house pictures. I really love this house stuff and am very excited about my projects.
And of course here are some pics of what most of time is really going to . . .

Favorite quote from the weekend: We went to the hotel pool where about 20 12 year olds were dunking eachother. I told Carter it will ok they won't touch you just stay close to the stairs. He was wearing a spiderman floatie and says "But mom I'm spiderman, and they are going to want to get spiderman".

Carters thoughts

Carter and I have been having some interesting conversations lately. I thought I should start recording them so one day we can look back and laugh at them. Here are a couple that occured today...

carter: daddys going to put me in jail
me: no he wont
carter: yes he will
me: why is he going to put you in jail
carter: cause he doesnt love me
me: yes he does
carter: no cause im sad
me: daddy always loves you even when you are sad
carter: why
me: because hes your daddy and you're his carter
carter: oh ok, thank you mommy

carter: i want to go to my different house with my mommy
me: am i your mommy?
carter: no your lillys mommy. my house and mommy are in africa. i need to go to africa and see my mommy, i miss her
me: carter i'm your mommy
carter: no you're not shes in africa
me: yeah i'll show you pictures when you were in my tummy
carter: oh ok thank you mommy

We have similar conversations every day. I really wonder sometimes where he gets this stuff and what he really believes. The only tv he watches is diego and dora. He doesn't know his letters but he can tell you quite the story.

Christmas 2010

Making Graham cracker houses

Opening presents

Santa baby

Christmas morning

Playing Christmas eve

Christmas eve before dinner at Burger King

Church party

After Carters preschool Christmas program

Santa at Carters preschool. Lilly was too scared this time to get in the picture.

Making a snowman