Let there be LIGHTS!!!

That's right! We FINALLY got our power turned on today. After a long 7 month battle, we finally turned on the lights in our house without the generator!! WOO HOOO!!! now, the fun begins and we can turn on the furnace, and get going on the inside wall coverings.

we also ordered our cabinets today, and the insullation guys started today and got ALL the exterior walls insullated on all three floors...ROCK ON GUYS!! Tomorrow we'll be all insullated and then next week hopefully we'll get our final framing/plumbing/insullation inspections passed, then we can start putting up our sheet rock and T&G Pine. AAAH!!!!!! how exciting is that. We will shortly be finishing one of the bathrooms so that we can start camping out there! SWEET!

Here are just some of the poles leading to our house......the PUD guys had to cut down more trees as they went so it's kind of a mess up there....but oh well....

This is the second pole on our property.....that white truck is in our driveway

these aren't just any old power poles....these are OUR POWER POLES!!! WOO HOO!!!! this one is on our road to our house.

TA DA!!!!! here's our last power pole.....alll hooked up to our panel...WOO HOOO

Never say never......

I've had to eat my words twice this week......For years, i watched my mother crochet and thought to myself "i will never do that...." then she suckered me into it somehow.....then i watched her crochet baby booties, and i was POSITIVE that I would NEVER be so lame as to make baby booties.......so at some time this week i found myself on the couch crocheting not one, but like 3 pairs of booties!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't take a picture of them cuz i am still in denial.....

#2, I have thought often in the past 23 months how LUCKY i was to have a baby that was never pukey! Sooooooooooo today Lane comes up to our room and kind of dry heaves and pukes a little in our room and we blew it off like a random mishap......then we trotted off to town to look at cabinets, and on the way home, i look back at lane and he has this sour look on his face, then proceeds to projectile vomit all over the back seat of the car......so we pull over really quick, clean up what we can, use EVERY LAST WIPEY in my car, and think....."wow, there's no way he's got any more in him" so we load him back in and proceed home.......almost home, and round 3 comes in with more violent episodes and by this time poor Lane is covered in green vomit, and SO sad, i have no more wipeys, so i try to comfort him as best i can as he smears puke over his face from wiping his eye and hair.....and i rub his head till he fell asleep.....SO SAD!!!......and discusting....(Disclaimer: no i didn't let him sleep in his puke all day, when we got home i woke him up and threw him in the bath tub.....) anyways.....he's actually feeling better and took a long nap and no more puking after his nap......

sooo i have officially tackled one more milestone in motherhood of the projectile puking toddler. That deserves some treat right??? i think so.

First real hair cut

Lane had his first "real" hair cut in Jan.....he was a trooper..as long as he was distracted by eating :) Handsome boy!!

laziness

Lane practicing his log stripping skills

"oooh" watching daddy use the chainsaw

our framed in fireplace, it will all be rock

our new snow plow! yaaaaaaay

the view out our living room window.......cool rocks

good day picture of our siding and soffit

more siding....

lane guarding the porch

riding with rieyle

more rides

more rides

lane learned to "superman" down the stair.......fantastic....

emmy and lane in the back-hoe

here are some updates from the past month. Since i'm too lazy to have a separate post for each event, they are all combined. You'll figure it out. We have moved again...solidifying our label of nomads...........and so my time of posting has deminished. Word from the power company is that they will start drilling on monday! Our electrician SHOULD finish tomorrow, then we can get inspected, then insulated, then we can camp out at our house, ending our career of homeless vagabonds. YAY here's some fun from this month