House Update
Apr 25th
Things are coming right along on the house. The framing is complete, the roof is on, the rough duct work for HVAC is complete, and the plumbing is complete. We meet on Wednesday with the builder to go over the electrical details and since it looks like they have some stuff that isn’t quite right we’ll ask about it then.
 View up the front drive. |
 Living Room from Kitchen with Fireplace installed. You can see through to the master bedroom. |
 Back of House. |
 Jen standing in the kitchen. |
House Update – Roof is going on.
Apr 22nd
This week has been very busy with sporting events every night but Jen went and visited the house to take a picture of the progress. They have started getting decking the roof, windows have been installed in what looks like the majority of house, the outside insulation is going up, and you can see the outline of the chimney at the back of the house.
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Evite Response – The Greatest Excuse Ever
Apr 21st
By now I’m sure everyone is familiar with website evite.com, the online invitation and party planning place. We’ve used it before to send out invitations and we have certainly received a fair number of invitations as well.
The other day we received an invitation for Alex to attend an open house/reception for a girl in his class who is celebrating her first communion. So last night we were preparing to reply but Jen started reading through the “sorry we can’t attend” replies and came across the mother of all excuses. I’ve removed all the names…
Alex’s Birthday Pictures
Apr 18th
I’ve received a couple of questions wondering where Alex’s bowling party birthday pictures were and more importantly, where are the pictures of the “fart cake.” That’s right, you read it correctly, fart cake. It’s eight year old humour, you just wouldn’t understand. Don’t worry, I didn’t get it either but Jen was able to incorporate it into the overall bowling theme and it turned out alright. I couldn’t believe that she was actually going to do it but then Jen asked me,
“Do you remember your 8th birthday cake?”
“No…”
“You see, he won’t forget this one.”
It was hard to argue with that. So here you have it, Fart Cake and Bowling Party Birthday Pictures.
Framing Has Started on The House
Apr 17th
Jen and the kids went up to see the progress that had been made on the house this week and saw that the foundation had been poured. Then today we went up for another visit and they have started the framing process and I have to say it’s coming along pretty well. It looks like the majority of the first floor has been completed and they a good portion of the second floor has also been done.
 Front of the house from left side. |
 Front of the house from the right side. |
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 Back of the House. |
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Happy Birthday Alex
Apr 13th
I was catching on my comics reading today and this was todays Zits. How appropriate considering today is Alex’s birthday.
It’s hard to believe just how fast time flies. Here he was just the other day eight years ago coming home from the hospital. (Man, I’m starting to feel like my parents.)
House is Started!
Apr 11th
We met with the builder last Thursday and they are ready to get going on the house. When we drove by the yesterday they had the foundation framed out, the underground plumbing done, and are ready to pour the foundation.
It’s fun to see progress being made.
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Alex Scores!
Apr 10th
Today Alex had two lacrosse games and he scored during both games!
The first game was one of his regularly scheduled ones where he plays on his white squad and the second game was a bonus where he was playing with the black squad. They have a pretty large team where half the kids play on the white team and the other half play on the black team. The black team needed a couple of extra players today and the coach invited him to come play in that game as well. (He was really tired after playing two games in a row.)
He was way excited about his first goal. After he shot it and it bounced in he turned around and jumped in the air and was pumping his fist, Coach even came out and gave him a high five.
I managed to get video of his first goal though I wasn’t quite prepared so it’s kind of jerky and then after he scored I was so excited I hit the off button and missed his celebration. If I can figure out how to transfer it to the computer I’ll see if I can post it to the blog.
Snowball Fight.
Apr 2nd
On the first day of spring this year we woke up to a couple of inches of snow. Alex took out the ruler and measured it in the backyard and I think it found that it was about five inches deep. It was really good packing snow so we all went outside and had a big snowball fight in the backyard. Well, it didn’t start off as a snowball fight but it quickly turned into one. I took a couple of pictures since it’s not often that we get snow in Texas and it’s even more rare that we get that much snow. Plus it was Caroline’s first time to play in the snow, I couldn’t pass up taking pictures of that.
Caroline Yearly Pictures
Mar 27th
Yesterday we officially finished up with the house and got all our stuff out and handed it over to the new owners. We actually closed the day before yesterday but we were allowed to the weekend to finish the moving process. A couple of weeks before we moved we took Caroline’s first set of yearly pictures. It was nice to be able to get at least one set of her in the backyard since she is young enough that she isn’t going to remember the place but it looks like we are going to need to find a park to take the boys pictures this year as we won’t be in the new place yet. (I’m sure that is going to go over just great.)