New Shots...

See our little humble abode off in the left hand corner of the picture, this is the end of our new little cul-de-sac. Woohoo!
Here's a shot from the roof of house #8, looking at houses #9 and #10. The one on the left is house #9 and UCC's construction class is building that one all the way up to the roof. The one on the right is the last house we have to build (externally anyway)!!!!! Yeah, that's right! Can you believe it? We can't either!

We also found out some REALLY good news this last weekend for those of you we haven't bragged about it yet to, we are having our sheetrock hanging-job subcontracted out now!! That takes like months off of our job. And that makes our March 15th deadline date a lot more realistic. I figure I can totally make it 1.5 more months. I am nearing the feeling of a burned-out construction man and I'm SO ready to become feminine and clean and to make the inside of my home beautiful. So, just pray that all works out a little quicker and smoother now that we know we have that sheetrock job off of our backs.




This is the roof job for house #8 which is now all up and they are almost done with sheeting it--putting the sheets of wood down on the trusses to make a roof (for those of you like me that are not so big on construction terminology).

Unexpected surprise

I know the title is a little redundant...aren't all suprises "unexpected" but I believe titles with two words are far more gripping to the soul. At approximately 8:16 snow began to fall. With the ground frozen from a few days of freezing weather, the snow found a happy home. I had heard a possible dusting was on the way, but was shocked to see two to three inches by 10:15. School was closed by eleven and I was off to build my new best friend "Absalom" (seen here with his buck teeth). He only survived approximately 45 minutes...but he lived life to the fullest.

SNOW DAY!

Let it snow!!!! In the midst of a long stretch without a day off, God blessed Krystal and I with two days off due to the beautiful white stuff. We decided to spend the day resting, shopping and having lunch with Paul and Jan. We feel refreshed and ready to return to the regular run of the mill.

Visitors from another land...

I had a couple of visitors from afar come to visit me in the Burg over Christmas Break and I just wanted to show off their shining faces. We all went for a house visit of course!

Krista Brazeal and her cousin Kaley and I in the new front door... Us in one of the extra bedrooms...
Michelle Williams and I in our hallway...
Some foreign aliens stopped the new front yard too, Will told me they were deer tracks, hmm...

sliding doors

Slowly but surely we are moving closer to our destination of a new home. Over the weekend we had our sliding glass door installed. In honor of this event we thought it would be fun to list a few of our future interactions with our sliding glass door.

1. Our children, Mildred and Edgar, will leave finger prints all over the glass frustrating their mom.

2. Will will leave kissing prints on the glass for his wife (she won't be frustrated at him).

3. Edgar will try to walk through the glass because he isn't aware that it is closed (Krystal just cleaned it).

4. We will watch the sunrise together over the Umpqua Valley.

5. We will enjoy life together

Just a little view of our future with our sliding glass door.