Building progress and a trip to the fair.

I am not sure how to tie all of the events together in a creative way. It may be a bit of sleep deprivation on my part but I am still trying to put together this day in my head. It was a very eventful night at work followed by a bone scan and then building on the property. After that Kris took us to the Greene County Fair to see the demolition derby. He was very shocked that I had never seen one before. I think I know why I never have! If you have ever thought whatever you may be doing was the most senseless thing there could be, I assure you this picture will let you know that it is not! Apparently the goal is to see how much destruction you can commit and still be driving in the end. The place was surrounded by firemen and paramedics and tow trucks. The stands were filled with very interesting people. It was a thing you should watch at least once in your life! Kris's parents are here and it is great to have them nearby. Despite a little nailing incident, Kris and his Dad are making great strides on the framing. I am sending the front and back view today. I hope you all are having a very meaningful day!

Helping with other walls...

First of all, here is the most current view. It now has some walls above it but they are not up yet so this is how it looks. I was a little envious of the speed that Extreme Home Makeover was able to complete this step! :) We spent a bit of this weekend with some friends and family helping out with some of their projects. Kris went to Vonn's house and I don't have any pictures of that. The kids and I went to PA to see some of my family.

We hadn't seen David, Joanie, and their girls in over 3 years and they had never met Isabel. It was fun catching up with them even for a short while. We got to see the house that Peter and Amanda are restoring and help out there for a while. Catherine, Mark, and their girls hosted this adventure. It was a lot of fun and in one day my kids got to see 8 of their cousins. Kris's parents are coming up today for the week so hopefully the house pictures will start to look a little more exciting!

New views

Two new looks for today....

I let the kids up on top of the sub flooring for a picture. This was about all my nerves could handle! It seems no home is complete without a Tyvek picture so here it is! I know Josh will appreciate this.

Happy Birthday!

This was a day to connect with our special friends from FL. We were honored to spend McKayla Kinsey's 11th birthday with her in Ohio. Kristianna was so thrilled to be with her best friend on such a big day. She wrote her a song! If you think these little birds are cute, you should see Isabel show you what they look like with their little mouths open! This is the same nest from a picture posted earlier. They have hatched are are apparently hungry. Kris and Vern got all the sub flooring on today. The place is starting to take shape. It is so exciting to see progress. While they were adding structure to walls, Jen and I took the kids to climb walls...at the mall and at Cedarville. They had a lot of fun with their friends today.

Prayers of Thanks...

Lord,

Thank you today for safety for the guys, for Vern and Vonn Kinsey who helped us SO much today, and for a job I need to run to now!

Amen

Rocks and Trees

The kids and I spent most of the morning transplanting little seedlings to where the mower won't bother them. The kids refer to them as Christmas trees and they do smell like them. We are not entirely sure what kind they are or how about 50 of them have ended up on our place but we decided to give them a better chance at life. If you click on this picture you may see orange flags that are markers. They are on the back and right side of our rectangle now. While we were digging them up we found A LOT of rocks that bother the mower so began piling them up to pick up later. Kris spent most of the day working on anchor bolts and getting ready for the Kinsey brothers to join us tomorrow. It rained on and off all day today and was in the 70's. It was a nice day to be planting but a little muddy. The rest of the day was actually spent on laundry! :)

New friends

We have found some new things on our property. We were looking for baby trees and found a nest of these cute little eggs on the ground. Wesley found the toad just before church. Kris has started to get the slab ready for the garage/apt. Help is coming this weekend so hopefully there will be more to post soon. We have found about 20 more little evergreen-type trees scattered over our land and are collecting rocks to make a wall someday.