Before and after pictures of the kitchen, back bedroom and dining room in the house. They got wet with all the rain storms we had this summer so we had to take all of it down piece by piece. BJ, the kids, and I all tackled it one Saturday and got the ceiling all down, then with Mom L and Jeremiah's help got the walls out this week. We should be able to get the electrical done and then start insulation. The kids started wearing helmets because it kept falling on their heads. Good little thinkers. One wore out and very dirty crew!! Finished! Now to pull and pull nails. I kept thinking; wow, can you imagine putting all of this up in the first place? Thank goodness for drywall:)
This has been consuming all the "free" time we have had since this spring and it will continue for atleast two more months. We have made wonderful progress, our goal is to be in it before or right around Christmas. We have lots to do yet but thanks to all of the good help we are moving forward! I like the angles in this picture. This is a dormer on the outside, this is one on the inside.
This is just a few summer pictures. Playing at the pond was a highlight of the summer! State Fair was awesome! Thank you Brian, Becky and boys for the great company. The kiddos thought this grand prize pumpkin was a fake. Little Hands on the Farm is always a favorite! Here is just one flood picture. This is actually a road! Johnathon was always a little nervous to get on the tube last year; this year he did so awesome and even enjoyed going by himself a few times. These are just a very few of our summer adventures this year. Come on over anytime and we would love to show you all the many pictures we have!!
It took us about 6 hours to get to Rehoboth, New Mexico from Lake Powell. On our way we went around Shiprock, we also saw a bunch of rock formations and an Indian house in the rocks.
This is the second place we parked for the night. It was a lot easier to get the boat anchored to the small rocks versus the big rocks. This is the double arches. You could barely see thru the top arch.
More fun Lake pictures! This wall is called the Tapestry wall. It was beautiful and between 500' and 700' tall and the depth finder read 251' under water too. Pretty crazy! Rachel got up on her first try just long enough for me to get a picture then she said she was done. She did awesome for trying! Gideon really got the hang of skiing this trip, which was our goal! It amazes me how quickly he popped up every time he tried. Now he is a pro at it and is learning how to go outside the wake into the smooth water.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Here is the first place we stayed the night. You can't hardly see the house boat next to that big wall!! We anchored onto a big pile of rocks right in the center of the wall. It was nice because the sun went behind the rock around 2:00 in the afternoon so it was almost a little cool by bed time. This is Dad anchoring the boat after a storm. The storms kindof snuck up on you. It would get really windy and rain just a little bit. It would only last about an hour at most and you can about plan on a storm every afternoon. Thank goodness Dad was a good at tieing knots!
Friday, July 30, 2010
This is what we saw when we laid on the top deck of our house boat and looked up. Wow!! Johnathon's first slide into the lake. We ate, slept and lived in our swim suits for 3 days straight. That way when you got hot, morning, noon, or night you could just jump in and cool off! Adalli did extremely well at tolerating her claustrophobic life jacket. I was very thankful that she was not mobile on this trip. It would have been pretty stressful if she was crawling or walking. There was never much between us and the water! Dad was a very good captain as well!
We made it to Lake Powell Thursday afternoon and just made the last ferry of the day. We rode the ferry across to Bull frog Marina where the house boat was docked. Mom posing for a Captains photo. The most handsome and strongest man on the Lake!
Bridges National Monument was really neat. This park is right before you turn on the road to head to Lake Powell. Be prepared to hike awhile! We took the shortest hike and the kids were wore out halfway back, it did not help that it was 95 degrees out. Hot!
This is Hovenweep. It is in between Colorado and Utah in the very south west corner. It was a great spot to stop and let the kids run for a little while. These are old houses and funny castle looking buildings the Indians made. It was very interesting and I would recommend it. We just took the short walk but there was a hike that took you a long ways around to see quite a few more buildings. They also had signs posted for the dessert plants that explained what it was and what the Indians used it for, they were very interesting.
Before and after pictures of the kitchen, back bedroom and dining room in the house. They got wet with all the rain storms we had this summer so we had to take all of it down piece by piece. BJ, the kids, and I all tackled it one Saturday and got the ceiling all down, then with Mom L and Jeremiah's help got the walls out this week. We should be able to get the electrical done and then start insulation.
The kids started wearing helmets because it kept falling on their heads. Good little thinkers.
One wore out and very dirty crew!!
Finished! Now to pull and pull nails. I kept thinking; wow, can you imagine putting all of this up in the first place? Thank goodness for drywall:)
