St. Patrick's Day 2010

This past weekend Bryon and I went to St Pat's in Five Points. We met Josh and Heather out there and heard Josh's brothers band for the first time. The name of the band is The Movement. We had a lot of fun! We then went to Margaret's fourth birthday party at their lake house rental. The other pictures were taken at school today! Happy St. Patrick's Day and I hope you have the luck of the Irish with ya today!

Framing Up

They have been working at the house to frame up for the cement pour. They did most of the work today, but will be finishing it up tomorrow. It looks great and we are soo excited! It is getting closer and closer to the final project. The back two trees have been taken out at this point, and the new septic has been installed.

Tearing out the Chimney

This weekend our goal was to tear out the chimney that is on the inside of the house. We had to box up everything upstairs and move it to the recently cleaned up downstairs. We were thinking we were going to be able tp store everything in the house, but now are unsure. We may have to look into renting a pod. Mr. Ronnie, Mrs. Twilla, Mom, and Dad all come over to help us. What a dirty job! There was a continuous cloud of orange dust coming out of every window of the house all afternoon. We were throwing things out of the hole in the roof, through windows, and taking bricks and dirt out by the buckets and wheelbarrows full. We had masks on and goggles. I just knew I was going to be so stopped up but I was not too bad surprisingly. Here is the progress to report as pictured in the photos above. We still have to do half of the downstairs to the ground level. At least another days work....

Moving Out of the House

We rented a U-Haul and loaded all the things were were planning to take to the Lake House with us. It took us one day to get all of those things out, and we were so happy with the progress we made in one day. On Saturday we went back to the house and started packing up everything else that was to be left at the house. Mrs. Twilla, Taylor, Mom, Dad, Mr. Ronnie, J.D., Blake, Brandon and Bryon and I all had different parts to play. J.D. and Blake and Dad worked on moving the fence outside, while Mom, Mrs. Twilla, Taylor, and I boxed up things in the house. Brandon and Bryon tore the back room off of the house. Here are a few photos from the weekend.

Snow Day 2010

On the day after we got back from Australia, it snowed! Brandon and Taylor came over and we did a little snowboarding. We had a lot of fun! We also went over to Mom and Dad's to see them for a little while. It was the perect way to snow: here today gone tomorrow and powder soft!