Two Babies & a Mimi: June 2008

I can't believe how much progress has been made on the house in the last week. All of the walls on the bottom floor are up and you can actually tell where everything is! Jimbo has made a few revisions as he's been building so as to maximize the space. With this heat I'm not sure how quickly the 2nd floor will go up and then the roof but it's amazing to me the guys are able to work at all. Hope you enjoy the pictures!

It's been a quick whirlwind weekend - seriously, don't they all seem that way?? - we got to see everyone at lunch after church today, which was great. Yesterday Autumn made a little progress on getting Alexa's room ready to move in to. Tomorrow Jimbo has to put the light up and Kerry will finish the painting - then she'll be moving in. I'm sure Autumn will share some pics on her blog once she's in.

Last Thursday the first wood went down on our new house! It was exciting to get home and see the I joists down. On Friday Jimbo and his crew (Kerry & Mike) finished up the I joists and put down most of the subflooring. Saturday brought a long day for Jimbo & Jerry putting pipe under the driveway and marking out the driveway - it will be circular (really a pear shape) in front of the house with a turn out leading to the garage. And today they stood up the outside walls around our master bedroom suite!! How exciting!! The guys have been real troopers with these hot temperatures we're having right now.

This weekend was a good ending to last week and a good beginning for this week. Grace is doing well from her defibrillator/pacemaker procedure but has been having some difficulty with her left wrist. Tomorrow she goes to get an xray to be certain there isn't a fracture (or to ensure appropriate treatment if there is). Friday Pam and Tona headed to their respective homes and both arrived safely. It was so good to see them and get to spend a little time with them and it was certainly special for Grace to have them here.

We were pretty low key over the weekend - trying to catch up on laundry (really - does it ever end??), Jimbo working at the house site, and taking some time to sit out in the sun by the fish ponds. I enjoy the fish so much but we still haven't gotten our new filters installed so the algea continues to grow. The fish don't seem to mind it too much, though. Bridgett at work today shared a tip on battling algea - barley. She said it's available at any place that carries pond stuff, in a little bale, so I think I'm going to try that to see if it will help us get headed in the right direction.

Sunday our Church had a special service to honor our interim Pastor Wallace and his wife Donnie. They have been such a blessing to us during the time we have been waiting on God to bring us a new Pastor - we're looking forward with anticipation to Andy and his family joining us on June 15th but we're really going to miss Wallace & Donnie!!

Our daughter-in-law, Brenda, took her State Boards earlier today and I know she is waiting with anticipation to hear the news she's passed and is officially a Registered Nurse!! We're so proud of her accomplishment! I remember all too well how hard it is to balance school with a husband and work and am glad she's reached this point!!

And, last Thursday Walker and his parents came for a visit - we got a few pictures of Walker and Alexa at the house site - there's one below.

I'm looking forward to supper tomorrow night with Anne & Jackie. We haven't been able to catch up for a while so it should be good food and fun sharing what's going on with our kids and grandbabies & granddogs!

Hope everyone has a great week - it will be the weekend again before we know it, that's for sure!

This is a shot of the I-joists on top of the block foundation