I am sure missing these two smiling faces lately...

I'm going to go see my other little cherub this weekend!!

Mike has been working on the Gumdrop Lane house again...the correct trusses were delivered today. The first ones didn't have the right pitch in the vaulted great room, so they were replaced.

The roof sheathing is up on the garage and about half of the master bedroom.

Now you can see just how the roof line will be..I like it alot! It is really going to turn out nice.

This is the back of the house(below), there will be two 10 ft sliding patio doors there to take advantage of the view. There are going to be two dormers above them too, the hole on the far left is for the 6ft slider in the guest room. The far right is the master bedroom.

I enjoy watching the crane carrying those heavy trusses around...he takes them up so high and places them in just the right spot... amazing to me.

By the end of next week the roof should be sheathed and it will look more like a 'house'.

Travels....Camping.....Moving!!

It has been a pretty busy summer around here...I went out to Manitoba to visit Sweet little Sophia for a couple of weeks. She is showing me her friend Gnomeburt, guardian of the backyard.

We went to a petting zoo on Canada Day, this little potbellied pig loved to get his belly rubbed..Sophie thought he was cute!
This is the water table in her play area..

We went to the Portage la Prairie fair....quite alot different from the Fairs we have around here...alot smaller. This was the cow barn.

Kelly and Sophie flew back home with me. She was a good little flyer...other than the glass of orange juice she accidentally dumped in my lap (that is why kids use sippy cups!!).

We went to visit my other little darlin' Emma Jean, she is 6 months old now!!

We went to Leavenworth...

and ate out for breakfast one morning. It was alot of fun! Sophie and Emma love each other.

Mike stayed home and worked on the new house...he's got alot done and it has been sooo hot!!

Jessie, Becky and Emma invited us to go camping with them at Bonaparte Lake. They tented and we took the motor home.

It was alot of fun to have everyone together!!! Jimmy came up one afternoon too.

Then to quickly it was time for my girls to go home...

While we were trying to squeeze in all this fun we sold our home...so we were packing and trying to get ready to move...quickly! How hectic!! Chaotic!! I wouldn't recommend it!!

But we did manage to get moved out in time...we are staying with Dad until we get our new house done....probably in the spring.

Poor...Poor..Little Mr Pepi

Yesterday I noticed that Pepi's eye was irritated...I thought he may have got something in it and was hopeful it would get better...it didn't. This morning he couldn't open it and it was gunky...when he wouldn't eat or drink I knew things were bad. I took him to the vet and found out he had lacerated his eyeball, it was almost punctured. If I didn't get him to the vet when I did he would have lost the eye..hopefully we got it in time.

He is not happy at all!!

Foundation....Done!

Ready to build...Mike has to cut the hay before he can get started though...



The strawberry patch is doing really well~~~




♥ Fresh Strawberries ♥

Off with the Forms

The cement work turned out good ... I was a little worried that the cement would stick to the forms since we only got 1 coat of oil on them..but it wasn't bad at all. It still was alot of work for them to get all of the forms off since cement had gone over the top and encased some of the boards.

We are happy with how it turned out though. It is sure alot of work for something that you can't see on the house...but it is one of the most important things too!!

Footings & Foundation Pour

Mike had to call in reinforcements...we could have got done ourselves if we would have had a couple of more days...but the pour was the next day. The guy he hired really knows what he is doing...unlike me. Things went very smoothly.
Now everything is built, braced and ready to go!

Nice straight walls...

The Building Inspector passed it...now we are ready for the pour.

Here they go...Mike, Jessie and Jimmy...

Nothing ever seems to go as planned ... the cement started setting up before they were ready for it to...

But by the end of the pour...things were looking up, and everything turned out fine.

Amid the chaos of the pour this little fellow ran right by them...nobody saw him except Emma and me. We were hanging out in our make shift playroom in the back of Mikes new cargo trailer.

Nice little set up.

While her Daddy, Grampa and Uncle Jimmy were all working their ***!!**'s off, I had an enjoyable day with this little sweetie!

Grandkids !!!

Gotta Love Them!!

Breaking Ground & Foundation Work

We have power!!

We broke ground for the new house on Gum Drop.

The first scoop of dirt...Yay

First we had an excavator level the building spot out for us.
We laid out the house and after much squaring up and measuring..we got the forms for the footings in....

Put in the rebar...

then we started getting the forms for the foundation walls up.

Most of the forms are up... just the garage is left to do and we will get it done tomorrow since we ran out of forms today. Then Mike says the walls need to be squared and braced. The cement is coming on Friday so we have to be done.

So far the weather has gone from nice ... to cold and wet ..... then to hot!

Here is hoping for a nice rest of the week..not too hot or too wet!!