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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Cabinets get delivered

WOW! I didn't realize how many cabinets we were getting. Anybody need some cardboard? This will take three days to install. I am not installing them that would take 3 weeks.





A few of our colors

Here are just a few of the paint colors that Lisa picked out. There are more but this is what we have painted already. I wanted white but I got out voted. She has two votes now.




Interior Painting

Well let me just say I don't like to paint! That said I took off work a couple of days and primed the inside of the house the first day and the second day I painted all the ceilings and the garage. Those were long days. Friday I went to work to rest but that night Lisa's parents and sister came up and helped with my parents and Jacob and Jamie Lynn to get most of the painting done on the inside. Thanks for your help everyone.

<-- Whoa LISA do you remember you're pregnant
<-- Hats like these can only be picked up in France

<-- Amy you shouldn't sniff the paint

<-- Dad was in a hurry. No one can keep up with him in stirring up some paint. Click on the picture.
<-- Always in the spot light. Hey Jake do you know some one that works for a painting supplier.




Garage Door

So here is our Garage door. You're going who cares. Well I do! Anyways it is insulated and thicker then the average garage door. This will help keep the garage warmer in the winter (well until I open it and let out all the hot air.) and it will help with sound as gutterball will be kept in the garage. We also got an ultra quiet garage door opener. It is belt driven instead of chain driven. Only cost $30 more but there is a huge difference. This will be nice when sneaking in and out of the house. :)

Rock

We picked out Burnt Ridge Castle Rock to add a little something to our house. Burnt, CASTLE, Ridge or Rock. Not sure what that something was.



Mud

Mud is not always brown. But it is still dirty.


What you want to see the rest of the sheet rock in the house

By popular demand we have posted the rest of the house.


2 days later


Two days later this is what the garage looked like. A little dirty but exciting to see.

Clean Garage


Well here is a picture of our garage floor. This is the cleanest we will probably ever see it. :)

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

My Buddy Seth....

My friend Seth has asked me to post one of his movies for him from Burundi. Click the play button below.

Sunday, April 08, 2007

Resurrection Day / Birthdays....

Today is Resurrection Day of our Lord and Savior. It is also my brother Jacob's 29th Birthday. Tomorrow is my 34th Birthday. For the last 30 years I have had to share my Birthday with my younger brother. At least I had 4 years to myself. :) Here are a few pictures of this nice sunny day.




















Friday, April 06, 2007

Lisa turns 30!!!!

This year for Lisa's 30th Birthday which was March 10th She wanted to take our families to OMSI. So that is what we did. OMSI has one of the largest displays of human fetuses open to the public where you can examine the different stages of human fetal development during all nine months of pregnancy. It was great to see where our baby was in the stage of the pregnancy.




We all had a great time and then went to eat at the Spaghetti Factory.

A very Funny Friend....

Here is a picture of an old roommate at the Dude Ranch and a best friend, Seth. This Guy is the funnest guy you will ever meet. Visit his Blog site and you will see what we are all laughing about.
He and his wife Trina sold all their belongings and left their comfortable lives here in the States to be Missionaries for Jesus in Burundi Africa. We miss you guys and Love you both.


The house gets a face lift....



Well we had a little face lift done on our house and it changes the whole look of the house. It actually looks like we are getting closer to being done. We still need to paint it if there are any volunteers out there. :)

A shout out to Melissa


Just wanted to give a big shout out to our friend Melissa who came and checked our place out a while back. Thanks for taking the tour.


Tuesday, February 06, 2007

We are having a BABY!!!

We are having a BABY in August. Today we went to the Doctors for the first time and they did an ultra sound. It was amazing. Our little Baby was jumping around and moving and turning. You could see its arms and legs and face and fingers. God has truly created a miracle when he creates a Baby. We are 11 and a half weeks along only a lot more to go. Here are the first pictures ever of our Baby.




Friday, February 02, 2007

Snow Cave Trip 2007

Well for this years Snow Cave Trip Jeff and I took my Brother-n-Law Luke on our adventure. We snowshoed North West of Timberline Lodge 1.6 miles or basically left and up to an elevation over 7,000 feet. I don't have any pictures of us building the Snow Cave because the wind was blowing down the mountain at about 60 miles an hour covering us with very small ice crystals every time we came out of our cave. The next morning was a very nice clear day with less wind and I was able to take these pictures.