All in a day's work

We stopped by the house yesterday after Kindergarten and Jack and I were pumped to see our fireplace!

We were about to leave when they started doing this: 

 Kitchen and Dining room!:

 Then by the time I had the kids loaded, I turned around and saw this:

 And by the time naps were over, we found this:

Jack says, "Maybe building a house isn't that much work after all."  Speaking of Jack, I feel like we should play a little "Where's Jack" in all the building shots, cause trust me, he's in almost all of them.  

As you can see, I have more than quadrupled the amount of windows in the original plans.  I'm told I couldn't fit any more if I tried.  And trust me, I tried.  We don't live in the sunniest part of the world so we have to make up for it with as much natural light as possible.  I've been working on the windows for days on end so I am practically giddy to stand there and look out of them!

Ta da!

See what's new?

This girl is apparently as blind as a bat and we somehow missed it!  Her teacher told us a couple months ago to get her eyes checked and we kept putting it off but when I watched her at a school eye screening and she couldn't even get the third row of the eye chart, I felt like the worst.mom.ever.  So we took her in, hooked her up, and now she can see.  And she looks awfully cute doing it.  On the way home after getting her glasses, she kept saying, "I can see the stoplight....I can read that sign....I can't believe you can always see this good!"  And then, in the middle of the conversation she says, "Wow!  Wait mom!  I can see the buds on the trees!"

House!

 Pouring the foundation.  Jack and I stood in the pouring rain and mud to watch for a long time--he was mesmerized.

Sub floor.

Framing starts this week!

L.O.V.E.

House!

I'm actually not sure what's happening here but it's something for sure!

checking out the footings last night!

we now have some seriously awesome dirt piles....dream come true for these two.

Today! Once again, I'm not exactly sure what we've got here but in real life, you can see a very clear footprint of all the rooms. Too cool.

April Family Picture!

Four months and counting!

And me with my monkeys:

Sisters!

And their daddy....

Cousins!

Cute aren't they?

Easter!

got those shades in his basket...didn't take them off all day.

baseball at Grandpa's house.

On the line for the big egg hunt!

And if all the candy wasn't enough...we topped it off with some coconut bunny cake.

Heading home...fat and happy and covered in dirt (cause who wouldn't go for that over the candy and cake?)

Henry.

That's a brand new bag of Starbucks there beside him.

nummy.

Saturday mornings

usually find at least two kids here, watching 'toons:

while I hit the streets with these lovely ladies for running group:

this is our first and probably last picture so enjoy it. :)

Good Friday

Good Friday is a holiday for Ed that I tend to look forward to for weeks. It seems to come after a long month of travel and bad weather and all around glum. We usually head somewhere warm(ish) and have fun with the kids. This year we stopped at our lot on the way out of town and caught Phil digging our hole:

the big and the bitty:

We ate lunch at Costco and ran into multiple grandparents and many other friends heading south for some sun. And good thing, because when we got home to check on our lot, it looked like this:

darn snow.

little mama eating breakfast

I'm just sayin'

I woke up Saturday to a beautiful sunny morning with 100% chance of rain. 100%. And yet, there was nary a drop for at least 10 hours. We soaked it up:

(that's Ava's baby there in the car seat)

As much as I enjoyed the sun, I have to say, Mr. Weatherman, you've been quite the disappointment this year. I mean if it's going to snow for three days straight, you might want to mention it. If it's going to be sunny, let's not call for rain. All.day.long. And I know it's Spring, so that can be a bit tricky but I don't think it's too much to ask to be within 20 degrees one way or another.

And speaking of snow, here's my Jack with his snowy owl today:

brotherly love