Does this helment make my head look big?

Avana came into the living room last night with this helment on her head. This is Brooke's helment she wears riding her 4-wheeler. We all thought it looked too darn cute. She kept it on for a while but it starting getting too heavy for her to hold up. She was running around in it and I finally got her to stop long enough to snap a shot. Later I will post some pictures of Brooke on her spring break pictures on the beach. She got to go with my m-i-l, b-i-l and his wife to Gulf Shores and she had a blast. She had never been to the ocean before and thought it was so neat.

They poured the last of the porches today. This is pictures of our handprints in the front porch.

FINALLY!!!!! Boards going vertical instead of horizontal! We are so excited. They got two walls actually up but have about half of them built and not standing up yet.

This is a side view of the house.

This is a picture from the front. It is so exciting to actually see some progress. I think it will go pretty fast from here as far as getting it in the dry. Then it will slow down again. I know you really can't tell much from these pics but I am just glad to be able to show the progression! I will keep posting pics as it continues to go up.

It's the Little Things

Here is a note that I found on my desk this morning when I got up to finish up last night's work. Brooke apparently put this on my desk after I had quit for the night. It is these little things that make me smile and know that I must be doing something right. Of course, we have our days but all in all it is a wonderful life with my two girls and my wonderful husband. I need to keep this for ammunition later on when she decides she may not like me in her teenage years! HAHA. I know that day is coming and I dread it. She is a very smart, beautiful girl and I just hope she will always remember that she is the sparkle of my eye as well as her sister. Never take the little things for granted!

Rain, Rain Go Away

Just a quick update. We haven't gotten much done on the house because of all the dern rain. I am hoping it will dry out enough this week that they can pour the slab sometime this week. The power company finally came out today and set our poles and we now have electricity, about time as we have been waiting for almost 2 months for them to come! Funny story about that. I went by the electric company's office the other day in Sheridan and, of course, all the men were sitting on their hind ends shootin the breeze when I walked in. They know who I am because I have and Adam has been in there several times trying to light a fire under them. Well, I walked in and asked when they thought they might get my power supply to my building site as my carpenter is going to need it before long. On gentleman was very kind and said they had to have a special rig to drive out in the cutover and they would get it by Monday or Tuesday, this was last week by the way. I said, "Good deal". Well this big ol guy sitting next to him had to open his trap and this is the statement he made to me. "You know what you can do to help us out while you are waiting for us?" I said, "What's that?" He says, " Get you a shop vac and go out there and suck up all that water for us." I just looked at him and said "Hum, well, you have to have electricity to run a shop vac don't you?" And needless to say I had the last say in that one. Hope ya'll had a good weekend. Maybe by next weekend I will have some pictures of some boards going up.

Outside fun

Since it has been so beautiful outside the past few days we have been taking advantage of it.

Brooke and Avana played on the trampoline and the swingset for a while. I was busy snapping shots while they were trying to play but I kept stopping them for some pictures. Avana a.k.a., per her dad, Wild Woman, loves to play in the sand. We found this out when we took her up to the new house place and she found the sandpile at the back of the house. So, I went to town this past weekend and bought her and Brooke a sandbox. Haven't gotten the sand to go in it yet but I am sure they, especially Avana, will have a blast playing in it. The picture of Brooke on the trampoline with Woodrow, our dog, was taken yesterday while Avana was napping. Brooke was jumping and Woodrow decided he wanted to join in on the fun. I was doing laundry and Adam came and got me so I could take a picture of them on there together. He was actually jumping with her at one point but I didn't get that on camera. He loves the girls but he gets on their nerves sometimes. Wherever they go he goes. Well, I just wanted to share some outside fun pictures with ya. Hopefully before long I will have some new pictures of the house place with some actual boards going up. Don't look like it will be this week though as it is going to rain sounds like most of the week. UGHHHH!

Like my hair?

I took this picture of Avana as she was playing in her sister's room today and came out wearing this. This is Brooke's Hannah Montana Wig. Check out those puckered lips like she is posing or something. Everytime she dresses up she calls herself a princess. One day I am going to get a picture of her in her dress and her cowgirl hat. She is hard to get pictures of sometimes. She won't stand still long enough for me to get it snapped most of the time but she wanted her picture taken, apparently, in this wig. When she wears the princess dresses and the cowgirl had she calls herself a "cowgirl princess". She gets on her rocking horse and rides.

House Update

Okay, I told ya'll I would post some pics of the progress of the house building. Just looking at these pictures it don't look like much has happened. The blocks are finished for the house and is filled with dirt. The plumber is supposed to come Wednesday and assess things and get started shortly after that and then will be time for the slab. Things seem to be moving quite slow but the weather has been holding a lot back. Here are a few pictures of the Ashley House. The first photo is from the back of the house. The second is a side view of the house and then the last one is a front view. I thought it was kinda neat with that little bulldozer in there. The bulldozer is sitting in my area where the kitchen table will be sitting. It fits perfect in there.