Friday, July 13, 2007

Progress!


Rough plumbing on Thursday and concrete today! And the weather looks good for next week's work, so things could be picking up really quickly now. This concrete is just the main house; the garage, front porch and back patio are still to be framed and poured.

The first picture shows the house to the East of us (and the only other house on the lot); the second is taken from the back of the house facing North. You can see cars passing by on Route 16 from this view.

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Hot Dog, Big Bird?




Nathanael enjoyed sharing his hotdogs and apple juice with Big Bird. In the last pic he is signing "bird."

Good Land!

You're looking at 6 lots in Tower Hill, half a city block, that are now ours. We will be building a house here over the next few months (with a really big back yard!) so we can move out of the parsonage to make room for our first full-time Youth/Associate Minister! Both of these things are very exciting . . . the new house and the new (additional) minister.
The land was sold to us by a family in the church and we are so grateful to them for their sacrifice! (By the way, Derrick said, "But we only need one or two lots." He answered, "It's all or none." :) Thus the reason we own 6 whole lots!)
Also, many friends have offered to help do different projects on the house in order to help keep our labor costs down - and let me tell you, we have some really talented people in our church that know how to do almost anything and everything. We are also grateful for their encouragement in this way.
At this time, the footings are already poured and we're just waiting for the rainy days to stop interrupting our building project. Isn't that how it goes?

Boys!

By far, the favorite pastime of the boys is wrestling with Daddy! I love this picture . . .I had it made into an 8x10 black & white and framed it for Derrick's Father's Day gift.

Hello!

Welcome to our blog. Not that I know what I'm doing yet, but I decided it was time to get keep in better touch with all our family and friends. Seems blogging is the pop thing to do, so here goes nothin'!