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

More soffit and siding

I think i'll put a "welcome" sign over the door

Our siding is cedar colored hardy plank.....basically it's supposed to look like wood, but it lasts longer. We really like it. I"ll try and get a pic during the day. We used green trim that matches our roof....it's a really common combo out here, but we really like it!

My husband, Superman

While me and Lane were off galavanting accross the united states, Scott stayed home and worked like a indetured servant on our siding and soffit......and it is BEAUTIFUL!!!!!! i LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!!! It is so pretty, these pictures don't really do it justice at all, but it was dark and whatever.....so anyways, just believe me that it is soooo fabulous.

My beautiful soffit
look at those 45's

he also stripped some of the logs in the front porch...they're going to look sweet

here's a pic for my mom to show how much snow we got.....here's scott's work trailor. The snow has actually settled and melted quite a bit too....yikes. We're supposed to get another 8 inches or something lame like that. Hopefully our plow will be ready by friday!!

Ohio re-lived

The last day we were in Ohio we went to the Boonshoft Museum, which is kind of a kids museum...way fun, I wish they had something like that around here sometimes...but we are ok with lakes, and mountains and rocks to play on so it's all good :) Lane had fun tho

Shopping with the fun kid carts

Driving the sweet truck, laughing at my sister, and sitting with cousins

The tongue of determindation

Fun slides

Ohio Trip

Me and Lane took a trip to Ohio for my little nephew's baptism (Congrats, Scott!! :)) Here are some fun pics so far from our trip. We fly back home on Tuesday morning!

Lane with Grampa at the Monster Truck show!

All of us at the monster truck show.....sorry it's crooked

Me and Lane....Both aspiring monster truck drivers

ooooooooooo.....aaaaaaaaaaahhhhh

The green one was awesome! he did an almost vertical wheelie over the line of cars...

Lane with Grampa.....I think Grampa is the only person in the HISTORY of Monster truck shows that has EVER fallen asleep during a show :)

Before the show excitement!

Lane with cousin Nathan....they decided to start a band. Nathan on recorder and Lane on harmonica....look for the tour coming to a town near you!

Cousins...Nathan, Alan, and Lane

What more could a boy want??

Chainsaws, nailguns, trucks, RC cars, and blocks!! Lane is quite possibly the most spoiled child on the planet.....but we couldn't help it!!!! NOBODY warned me how fun it was to go christmas shopping for your children!! GEEZ!!! So anyways,...needless to say, Lane had a great stash on Christmas, and we vowed to have a little more control next year :) We just need some more kids to spread the toys around with, then it won't seem so bad :) Here's some pics of our Christmas day!

Snow Slushies

new dump truck

chainsaw!