Sunday, December 27, 2009

Christmas 2009

Merry Christmas to all!

Thank you to everyone for cards, gifts, calls, and wishes to us. We had a wonderful holiday break, were overly spoiled, and extremely stuffed. Here are some pictures of our busy week.

Hope your Christmas was just as good!




















Saturday, December 26, 2009

Post-Christmas Update

Merry one-day post Christmas to all!!

We headed out to the house today to check on the progress of things. I realize it's been awhile since our last post - LOTS of progress since then!! The busy builders have been moving along. We now have siding going up, roof tarp, rough plumbing done, water lines in place, windows all in. Basically, the house has all the bones - it's just adding the layers that comes next. We bumped into the roofing guys on our way in - apparently, we'll have pretty black shingles done by Monday. It's all pretty exciting!!!

Here are pics taken from today. Click on each so you can see the detail (sorry, I took as many as I could from all angles). Hopefully, you can see which room is which.

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas! I'll post another post above to share some of the pics we took of our VERY spoiled day yesterday. Love to Gretchen's family back east - I miss you guys!







Standing in garage nook


Standing in kitchen nook/seat













Family Room - Looking upstairs, kitchen below








Standing in office - kitchen to left









Top of landing: L room to left, E room to right, bonus straight ahead














Standing at landing, overlooking family room

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Sunnyside Christmas Parade!

Ryan and I were treated to a kid-free night while Grandma and Aunt Amy took the kids to the annual Sunnyside Lighted Christmas parade. It's a really cute display of floats, tractors, trucks, horse carriages, etc., all decorated cutsey-Christmas with lots of lights. It was FREEZING cold out, but the kids were troopers. Everyone bundled up and watched the show - it looked like fun!!


























House Update

We have windows!! Of course, they're in a pile in the front office, but hey - they're here and ready to go. The guys were working on building the stairs on Friday morning when we stopped in, and by yesterday afternoon, they were up - along with almost all of the second floor framing. It's pretty cool - the rooms are really taking shape!! We should have the trusses up by next week and then the roof will follow.









Upstairs hallway/walkover








Family room



Our bedroom