Updates...

The kitchen upstairs is SO CLOSE to being DONE!!! Tall Boy finished the vent for the hood (I think) and Gpa hooked up the gas stove! Tall Boy even lit all the burners, and they worked! (We got this stove last year for free, and it has been sitting outside in our car port since then!) There was one burner that didn't work quite like the others, but hey, it was a free stove! All that's left is to hook up the electrical for the dryer, hook up the washer, and install a dryer vent. Someday we want to put cabinets over the washer and dryer, and make a mobile island with a butcher block top...but I have a hard time believing that those things will happen in the next 3 -6 months.

In other news, the other Gma and Gpa are going to be visiting for a week! Super Boy is SO EXCITED!!! He won't know what to do with himself! 4 people here...which one to play with first!? Hopefully he won't wear them out too much! We are SUPER excited and can't wait 6 more days...but we have to! We just hope we can pull the guest room together in time!

Super Girl is getting more confident, standing up for longer periods of time, and preparing to amaze us all when she just starts RUNNING one of these days! She still hasn't really taken any more steps, but why rush things? However, she has learned to climb our whole staircase! She doesn't like coming down, but she loves going up! She also loves to stand at the bottom of the stairs and yell "AT! AT! AT!" I think she likes the echo. Hopefully Gma and Gpa don't mind the yelling! Her 4 teeth on top are quite the sight. 2 are pretty much all the way in, and the other 2 will probably be all the way in a week from now...she's growing up SO FAST! I can't believe that I need to start thinking about her 1st birthday party! I am SO BEHIND on all of our scrapbooks!!! I hope I can catch up soon!

I hope I'll be getting a few more opportunities to scrapbook now that my church is starting a group that will meet once a month to scrapbook, make cards, crochet, do crafts etc etc. The first one is Aug 4th at my house from 7-9pm...I just hope I can get something done!

Speaking of getting something done, I really should get to work on the house...what's new right!? Until next time! BYE!!!

Super Girl on the move!

Well, the end is near...Super Girl took her 1st steps yesterday! She is also on the verge of sprouting 2 more upper teeth...her gums are broken, but the teeth haven't quite come through yet. Super Girl also amazed us with her amazing feat of climbing 1 stair! Like I said, the end is near! Soon it will be nothing but baby gates and child-proof (and sometimes adult-proof) locks on whatever she gets into! Wish us luck!

Construction Progress

We are slowly, but surely making a dent in the seemingly endless list of improvements we need to accomplish. We have installed some of the cabinets, counter top and sink in the kitchen. We even managed to run some electrical wires so we can FINALLY have ceiling fixtures in the front room! Hooray! A few more doors are painted and hung, but there are still more to do! Soon my life may slow down and get back to normal!

Camping Fun!

We decided to take a break from the construction zone and get away from the craziness! We took our camping trailer on it's maiden voyage. We went camping near a semi-local reservoir. We had to try several camping areas before we found one without bugs, and had shade too. We rode Gpa's 4-wheeler in the 1st place we tried, but the site we settled in didn't allow 4-wheelers. The place we settled in was a semi-shady, semi-bugless site, and travelled to be cool near the water. What a good decision! Super Girl and Super Boy loved the water, and all of the adults enjoyed the cool breeze and relaxing sound of the waves crashing on the shore. What a blissful way to spend a weekend!

4th of July

I love this holiday! We get to celebrate this wonderful nation that we live in...reflecting on our land of plenty and all our blessings...and then we get to light things on fire and watch them explode!!!!! (sorry, that's the tom-boy in me!) I found an outfit for Super Girl's 1st 4th of July, and it says "Super Girl" right on it! I had to get it of course! Gma and Gpa enjoyed the show, and then we sat back and watched as a bigger show lit up the sky nearby...partly due to neighbor's illegal fireworks, and partly due to a legal city firework show. We enjoyed all of the beautiful displays of light. We had steak, corn on the cob, garlic mashed potatoes and rounded off the night with strawberry shortcake...we were all in heaven! What a fun day!