Delays

Well.....I'm not sure why this surprises and/or frustrates me.....but we are experiencing some delays with finishing our house. FIRST: we were supposed to get carpet on june 23rd....but apparently i ordered the most popular color of the century and it's backordered....tilll july 8th....ok.....WELL then our carpet guy calls and says he can't come till the 12th, and my heart almost broke.....why??? Because these days i'm a little pyschotic due to the growth i call "the belly" SOOOOOO a few more weeks *sigh* i can do it.

SECOND: we installed our hardwood last weekend, and here's where we

RAN OUT OF WOOD

Are you KIDDING me!!?!?! THIS.....THIS measely little section that would take like 6 boards, cost me getting my kitchen appliances this week. NOW we have to wait 2 weeks for One...1....stinking box of wood :) I'm not bitter......

But isn't it pretty??


So fun

here's when it's clean

Here's when it's not......i dont' bother cleaning it really....becuase we dont' have our carpet, and so people can't take their shoes off.....sooooooooo this is the constant state of my floor.....i'm not sure really the PROPER way to clean hardwood flooring since i've never ever dealt with it in my life.....so if anyone has some pointers, that would be great :)

weirdos

GRIZZ and KITTY

BFFs

That's love, when someone slobbers on you, chews on your head, carries you around by your leg, and eats all your food, and you STILL want to cuddle with them......

Downstairs bathroom

Scott built a little log vanity for the downstairs bathroom. Totally cute. YAY

Now we just need to grout, put down our hardwood, doorknobs and carpet and the inside is DONE!!!!

tile tile everywhere!

We got our kitchen counters on this weekend too. They are really pretty! We did a granite tile...

It's a tan, brown, white speckled, but from a distance kind of looks green. Either way i think it's really pretty! We got a brown sink...so it all ties in well together. I think the next pictures will just be when it's all done with appliances and all! WOO HOO

Finishing up

Scott's been working like a maniac this weekend to get some of the last projects done. Here's our master bathroom. Tile's all in, all it needs now is grout and sealed and then it's done!

Our shower. It's pretty sweet, it has two shower heads. The whole thing but the ceiling is tile.

Our vanity. It's open on the bottom so we can put our laundry baskets under there.

My masterpiece. We had lots of extra rock from the fireplace, so we decided to put some on the bathtub. I am not only an electrician but now i'm a mason!! I can officially do rock work....but sorry....i'm retired. One job was enough for me :)

The whole bathroom at a glace, at least what could fit in my camera lense. The vanity is accross from the shower, and the pooper room is on the left by that little linen closet. I think our bathroom is pretty amazing. I LOVE it,.....i think it looks like some mountain resort. :)

Wild Life

Our moose is back! Grizzly bear isn't such a fan of the moose, but at least he lets us know she's around so we can make sure our kids don't get eaten :)

This was looking out from our back porch.

Future mechanic

This week the gas tank on scott's truck decided to fall off. SO Lane was helping Scott fix it after work one day. He's a natural. Now we just need to teach him how to change the oil in MY car.

"cheese"
Not sure what he was messing with under there, but he had lots of fun.

Long live the Microwave!

So I had to make treats for YW birthdays today for church. Since I don't have an oven, and I really didn't want to travel anywhere to cook something, I decided on rice crispy treats. I make smores in the microwave, why not melt mallows for crispy treats?? Well, I had to get a little creative, since i don't have ANY OF my kitchen stuf here. I.E. no bowls, no mixing spoons, no NOTHING. SOO I have a glass dish I stole (sorry debbie!! :)) from the Terry's that I cooked my mallows in. For a mixing bowl i had an empty ice cream bucket (yay for mass quantities of ice cream), and my personal favorite.....an ice cream scooper for a mixing spoon becuase it was the largest kitchen untesil i could find! I actually had a brownie pan for some reason....so i could put my crispies in something other than a cardboard cereal box (which i was totally prepared to do!) All in all they turned out good! Except for the slight mishap with the microwave. Apparently my butter that i tried melting was wrapped in a foil wrapper....who knew!! Sooooo aside from the SLIGHT fire and blue lightening created in the microwave all was well. Even our microwave survived!

Baby....

Well I am officially 4 months pregnant! Craziness! I have my 5 month ultra sound the end of June, and I am trying really hard NOT to find out what we're having..... I haven't felt the baby kick yet, but am looking forward to it. I am not posting a picture of my belly yet becuase it's embarrassing, becuase i could easily pass for a 6-7 month pregnant lady......SOOOOOO you can all just use your imagination. It doesn't help that i ALREADY looked pregnant long before I actually WAS :) But who cares. In my first 4 months, i've lost 4 pounds......which is pretty funny to me, becuase I am SOOO backwards. One of these visits they will tell me that i'm actually gaining weight with this pregnancy. All is good though, and will post pics of the little one's first photo shoot at the end of June!

Sweet light!

Here is the cute cute wagon wheel light all done and up! I think it's so cute, and love how our upstairs hallways turned out. I think i'm going to name our house the wood lodge....becuase it totally looks like a ski resort or something. I love it though. i can't wait to decorate!!!

So UPDATE: Scott is finishing our master shower (tile) and the kitchen counter tops today and tomorrow. Then we're pretty much ready to lay our hardwood in the hall/kitchen....then we're ready for carpet!!!!! I'm drooling i can't almost taste being finished....... I really don't even care to move any of our stuff in (except for my kitchen....i am SOOOO DONE cooking all my meals in the microwave) I just can't wait to have carpet to walk on instead of subflooring :)

King of Bars

Yup thats right...my husband is the Bar KING!!!! This could be a bad thing.....but in THIS case it's GREAT!!!!! Look at this beautiful log bar he made for our kitchen......it's SOOOOO Pretty....well it was, till we had to re-sand it. BUT It will be beautiful again! I LOVE that it's so tall cuz we have a log bench from the A-frame that we want to use. And i LOVE LOVE LOVE my hangy lights over it....SO CUTE!

Inside view...this is where by recylcing buckets will go....since we don't have garbage service....we are TOTALLY going green.....which is helarious becuase we're about as black as can be on the "green" scale. I have to recycle about 1000000000 tons of stuff to make up for all the trash bags of dirty diapers, paint cans, and misc junk i've burned in the last 6 months...... :) But hey.....we can all be reformed, right??

extreme close up. the top is two slices of log put together.....sooooo fun

Big view of the kitchen. note the new microwave YAY

The caped wonder

Lane brought me a trash bag the other day and made me tie it around him like a cape....he probly wore it for a good hour or so. He was pulling his truck around by a rope, with his cape on....and saying "cheese" because he wanted me to take pictures and show them to him... he's so funny. So if you know anyone that needs a smiling super-hero.....i have one.

Heaven!

Heaven is: Having our own washer and dryer again after the better part of a year without one!!!! Not only do I get clean clothes and towells when i want them, but they make great shelves for my JUNK!!! :) ok...only till i get real shelves in my laundry room.....yeah, right!

Heaven is also having a functioning sink on the main floor so i don't have to go upstairs every time i want water or wash dishes.......no more bathtub dishwashing for me!! WOO HOOOO.

This is the life.

Trajedy

Sooo..... here's the story run down........Lane has a 4 wheeler.....scott accidently ran it over and FORGOT to destroy the evidence.......here's the aftermath.....

Lane finds it.....i hear him crying outside.....i go out and he's got a handle-bar in his hand and crying....."It's broooooooooooooooke!!!!!"

Totally destroyed.....UNFIXABLE......

So lane decided to find a screw driver to try and fix it.....poor guy, i finally convinced him that it wasn't fixable and that we just had to buy a new one.....he took it alot better than I thought...

Projects

Well this week has been busy at the house...

Lane helped uncle nick plumb my utility sink.....which is GREAT because now i don't have to do my dishes in the bathtub upstairs anymore!! WOO HOOOO moving up in the world

Here's the finished fireplace and mantle....LOVE IT

Here's the wagon wheel light for over the stairs......it's actually finished now and hanging up, but i forgot to take a picture of it before I left... it's totally cute.


Scott has the bar in the kitchen built but i forgot to take a picture of that too.....so this week we need to finish the bar, build the vanity for downstairs bath and our bath upstairs, finish our shower, then we're ready for our flooring

YAAAY

Just a day at the beach.....

Saturday we went and hung out at the beach with our friends. Lane LOVES it....I LOVE it.....Grizzly LOVES it! everyone except for Scott.....who stayed home to work on the house (sorry honey!!!) BUT anyways.....we had lots of fun and plan to take permanent resident on the beach this summer.

Just a view from part of the beach...it was such a beautiful day!

Our friends' dad was there with his kayaks, and Lane got to go on TWO rides....which is ironic becuase they were both with other men. I see a trend. *I* have kayaks.....but will he let ME take him on rides? OHH no....so far, he would ONLY go with Daddy...no with uncle Jim....and michael?!?!?! Who is all of 8!??? what the hek....

enjoying an icey pop thing

Saved!

Me and Lane were driving home and almost ran over this little guy. We pulled over and saved him, put him back in the water to swim away, and all was well with the universe.......until he got TOO close to Lane and then he was no longer a friend. Oh well

The wildlife count so far at the lake:

Turtles: Unnumerable

Beavers: 2

Bald eagles: 4 (at one time)

Herons: 1

Moose: 2 in our backyard

Cougars: None sighted, tho my neighbor was telling me a few years ago, her friend was coming to visit her and she must have spooked one, becuase one jumped OVER the hood of her car when she was driving down our road. YIKES

Bears: none sighted.....by us.......but we heard of a sighting by our friends house...but it could very well have been their massive dog Tubby.

lights, doors, and rocks

Here's my hangy lights in the kitchen. I LOVE them. Two are over the bar that doesn't exist yet, and one over the sink. They are so cute
This is our outhouse door that Scott made. *I* did help...i drew the shapes....:) This door goes on the pooper room in our master bathroom

Here's the crowning jewel of our main floor. THE FIREPLACE!!! Scott put the rock up this week, and it was a PAIN IN THE BUTT! But it looks totally amazing and i love it. I even got to put a couple rocks up, then i got booted becuase apparently I was not helping correctly :) I didn't mind though.

The two big logs hold the big log mantle.....it is SO SO SO fun, and i cannot wait to hang stocking on it at christmas :)

Warning!!

This light needed to have a warning on the box:

Attention!!! Do NOT attempt to install this light fixture if your name is CAROL!!

I had to attatch and re-attatch the wire nuts on this light at LEAST 7 times to get it all right, but it WORKS!! YAAY. This was only AFTER i almost electricuted myself and my unborn child trying to install the BATHROOM light fixture. Who knew that when the light switch was ON that those wires had power to them, and who knew that when you try to cut wires with power to them that they explode?!??? silly lights.

BUT they all work! so do all my outlets i put in. I'm ready for my electrician certificate :)

This means war....

Ok.....I consider myself a relatively humane person when it comes to animals (depsite the opinion of my sister) BUT I have DRAWN the line this week.

A couple days ago Lane wakes up from a nap crying, which is weird cuz he usually just plays till we go get him. Scott went to check on him and he's crying "CHIPPPMUUUUUNK" Scott reassures him there are no chipmunks in the camper and he's fine. The next morning, i wake up and i hear something on the floor and look up and sure enough there's chipmunk down there! I didnt' think much of it, and just shooed him out. Well this is when it started going down hill. The next day or so, I am having a dream, but i feel something on my chest.....it wakes me up and open my eyes and see this CHIPMUNK running up and down my chest, pretty much laughing and dancing saying "ha ha, what are you going to do about it!!" I totally jumped and he ran offf onto the floor. I didn't scream cuz i didn't want to wake up lane or scott, so i just laid there in shock and denial, and tried to talk myself back to sleep. BUT then i heard something at the foot of our bed, and looked and there was another chipmunk running across our feet and jumped into the window. THAT IS IT!!!! I woke up scott, told him there were wild animals invading our camper and we vacated. That day i went to walmart and bought an entire arsenal of vermin weapons.....including a pack-rat sized snap trap. The check out lady looked at it, and said..."wow....i don't even want to know why you need this" I shook my head in disgust and said...."yeah....we won't talk about it"

Anyways.....to make a long story short, we've set the traps, we've been evicted from the camper, there has been much carnage and blood in our camper, which i won't post for the sake of our young and sensitive viewers...

I feel a little better to know that i've inflicted some damaging revenge on the rodents, but i still cannot sleep in our camper. I DO need to watch what I say though. When we went to put Lane down to bed one night I was looking through our bed, and found yet another chipmunk hiding in our blanket, and lane busts out "STUPID CHIPMUNK" oops.

We haven't been to the camper in two days...i'm a little nervous to go look in there tonight. We might just have to burn it down. This has added some urgency into finishing our house. Which means me and scott are sleeping on the floor with a blanket. And I"m going to play the pregnant card, and say That ain't right!!!!! But i guess i'll take sleeping on the floor to sleeping with the rodents cuddling next to me.....or ON me....

Toe jam

Lane seems to be at his peak funny-ness at church these days.....here's a couple of lane funnies from church:

Background: I don't know why we taught our son about toe jam, BUT we did. So his nightly ritual includes cleaning out his toe jam, which he thinks is just about as fun as 4-wheeling. So in sacrament meeting one day he takes off his shoes and socks cuz he was hot, and i wasn't really paying attention. The next thing i know it's the dead quiet of sacrament, and I hear Lane's little voice LOUDLY annoucing "EWWWWWWWWW TOE JAAAAAAAM" i looked down and he's spreading his toes out and cleaning his toe jam. I tried to quiet him and explain we only do toe jam at night, but he keeps going, "MORE TOE JAM.....MORE TOE JAM!!" I gave up on quieting him becuase I had to keep MYSELF from busting up laughing.


Today during sacrament meeting we were singing some an opening hymn and lane likes to "sing" with the congregation. Though, instead of singing what we were singing he was singing rousing versions of "E-i-e-i-ooooo" "with a moo moo here and a moo moo here>..." i think he got through about 5 animals during our hymn. I'm just grateful that he is willing to participate :)

Seriously??

OK, So i consider Lane a pretty tough kid. He can run up hills, wrestle with his dog, fall on his face and not even blink an eye, beat up all the other nursery kids without even breaking a sweat, eat a "skunk flavor" jelly belly bean and ask for more.......TOUGH! Well i'm starting to rethink this label for him because he is TERRIFIED of bugs. Case in point: we were on a walk today and he was lagging a little bit behind, then he started shreiking and i thought he was in pain so i ran over to him and he was holding out his finger, and this tiny little any was crawling on his finger and you would have thought that it was the devil himself trying to kill the poor child! Case number two: we were out playing/working outside and lane was playing on a ladder that was on the ground, having a great time, then ALL of a sudden he JUMPS out of the ladder, and runs over to us crying. Getting used to the "bug" cry, we didn't really react, then he comes over to us with the familiar "buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuug"!!!!! Oh lane....what are you going to do when you see a MOOSE in our back yard??