June Jubilee

OGA (Oregon Gymnastics Academy) had their June Jubilee yesterday and Jonathan was able to show off some of his gymnastics skills with some of the other students. The following are some of the clips I recorded. Sorry the pictures are grainy, the light was pretty bad and my cameras don't do well under those light conditions.

All the kids received a trophy at the end for their hard work. Jonathan had a lot of fun! We had fun watching him :)

Music Class Performance

Elizabeth had her performance with her music class on Friday. The kids were pretty cute and did a great job singing. Here are some pics and video.

Inside Walls and Trusses

This will someday be the new family room.

This is taken from the family room looking toward the back of the house. The hole on the left will be the stairs the first room on the right is the bathroom and the hall looks strait back into the boys' room. Elizabeth's room is sandwiched between the bathroom and boys' room.

The trusses arrived yesterday. It was fun to watch the crane drop them on top of the house. Unfortunately it was also raining so they called it quits after they got the tarp back on. Today isn't much better, cold and windy but no rain yet. Hopefully they can get them up.

High Blue

Nathaniel received his high blue belt the other night. Such a great accomplishment :) Last month he had to spar Logan, a fellow student, and one of his instructors. Then he had to take a written exam. He passed both tests so was able to move up a belt. It's funny because he went from a blue to a high blue belt. What's the difference? The high blue has a black stripe. He is pretty proud of himself.

First lost tooth!

Elizabeth lost her first tooth the other night. It's been loose forever but the little stinker wouldn't wiggle it because she didn't want to lose her teeth. The other day I looked in her mouth and saw another tooth coming in behind the loose one and it's way back there. I told her she HAD to wiggle that tooth and get it out so hopefully the other one would correct itself. Monday night she was eating a piece of bread and all of a sudden yelled that she had lost her tooth. She ran over to tell me and show me and I asked her where her tooth was. She nonchalantly replied "It's in the carpet somewhere." She didn't even care about the tooth, just cared that it was finally out. Quinlan was over and found it for her. Elizabeth was excited about the Tooth Fairy visiting over the night. Her other tooth on the bottom is also lose but once again she won't touch it, she doesn't want to lose that one too :)

We have Walls!!

The walls went up yesterday! Yeah! Now it looks like something :) They only got 3 walls up, I'm assuming the 4th will go up today. We should have a roof by the end of next week! It's starting to move along pretty fast now. Though Tom told me yesterday that Mark, our foreman, is taking off for about a week and 1/2 so not sure how that will affect things. He's pretty good at driving the others. We like Mark :) I also found out I lose my washer/dryer next week and will not have another hook up for it until the house is pretty much done. I'm not too happy about that one. I can handle most things, I do not handle not having a washer/dryer well. Ask Rob, last time I had to use a public facility with our apartment complex I lost it because other people were so dang rude. I told him I wasn't doing laundry again til he bought me a house. It worked, 2 mos later we were in this place :) End of the month I lose my kitchen too. Ug. Ok it will be worth it, it will be worth it. I HOPE! All I can say is I'm glad it's over the summer. Who wants to cook during the summer anyway?

Week 2

They have all the decking up there now. They have also boxed in the floor joists. I can't get decent pictures because they have to put the tarp up every night and I'm not too hip on going up a ladder while they are up there to get pictures :) I didn't know they had been assembling the wall frames today. They are up there, just waiting to be put up into place. Of course it's going to pour tomorrow so no idea if they are going to be able to put them up. Sigh, it's June and it still feels like late winter around here.

Friday we got to pick out the type of wood and stain color for our cabinets in the kitchen. We decided we will replace all the appliances with stainless steel, will look really nice up against the cabinet color we chose. Plus, we get to keep all the silver hardware we purchased for our kitchen a long time ago! Even better :)

This was the house on Friday.

See how it is all boxed in now?

This is the side of the house. The part sticking out the farthest will at some point be Elizabeth's closet. In order to have a good layout for her room we had to hang the closet out in space :)

Front of the house. The very top pieces of wood up there are the frames of the really long, inside and outside wall.