I am rethinking what I want to do with this blog. Since all my updating is done through Facebook now, this has become an unnecessary thing to update (except for the few that might still check this). I do miss the journaling though and am thinking of doing something with some kind of writing and my photos as well. Stay tuned!

I have a new phone now and since I'm stuck day and night at our booth at all the fairs I figured I should update this.
We are still in our camping trailer awaiting the completion of our house despite the cold nights. (We do have a heater) the stat of our house is we have electric down there now. Were waiting to find someone who can get to our house to do the ac and once that gets down we can move on w/ insulation drywall and cabinets which we already have prices on. That's about it 4 now.

Just in case anyone still checks this in hopes that i will get my act together and post something- here's a pic from our vacation to the Upper Penninsula of Michigan at the beginning of August

what in the world? i just get a new pair of winter boots that i am sooooo excited about wearing and its 63 degrees out!!! it wouldn't be right to wear them. we're heading out to CA on sunday for a big Mr. Rooter convention. i looked and at 6:30pm tonight it was 53 there! its suppose to be warming up there and cooling off here though.

laura and adam are pretty upset over the no-snow issue. we did get out yesterday and today after school and enjoy the warmer weather.

We tried snowboarding thing out while we were in MI. It was pretty fun. I can't believe how sore i can be the next day and the kids did the same thing and they said they weren't sore at all.

SLAVES ARE AWESOME!!

We had 3 great slaves at our house for 2 hours today. Matt and I have been taking trees that he pushed over awhile ago, cutting them in about 4 ft pieces, bringing them down to our house, then Matt cuts them again in short pieces that I can split w/ the log splitter. we accumulated a big pile of cut wood and that's where our slaves come into the picture. THEY STACKED THE WOOD. they were fast, hard workers. I guess they weren't true slaves b/c we did pay for them. The money went for their new Teen Room.

Sheridan, Emily, Rachel

CABINETS AND ELECTRICAL
This week was exciting. We had the guy who's helping us with the electrical come and layout where everything is going to be and how much of the wiring Matt needs to get. Then we had the guy who's doing our cabinets come and we figured out what we're doing for that and got to layout our kitchen. he's just drawing it up and giving us an estimate. it will be awhile before we're to the point of putting that stuff in.