fewer piles + more house + pictures by husband = happy wife

Erik is a wonderful husband and ran over to take pictures of the house during half time of the Oregon game. Thanks Erik! 

We now have a floor to our second story/roof to our first story :)

There are several other pictures that show how much work they did inside, putting up all sorts of new walls and using up all of that wood sitting in our driveway, but Blogger doesn't seem to want me to upload the pics, so I'll try again tomorrow.

We have walls!!

My great friend Jeannie stopped by today just to hang out (she's wonderful and even brought Starbucks-thanks J :). We decided to head down and check out if the rumor was true that they were working on our house. 

Good news, here's what we drove up to! Such a difference from the previous post. 

Here's the view from the back corner. If you look closely you 

can see them actually putting up an interior 

wall while I took the picture! Go guys go!!

Welcome to our home! Don't forget to take off your shoes :)

How exciting! Jeannie, thanks again for going to check it out with me!!

p.s. I think the guys working thought I was crazy :) Well, get used to it guys!

The latest...

We stopped by the house on the way home from John Day and here is what we found. Wood, lots and lots of big piles of wood. No, the wood was not in the shape of a house, it was more in the shape of several piles. Exciting, huh? I guess Arctic Blast 2008 took it's toll on our house too.

Upon further inspection we found this. Good news, we have (or will have) heat! 

The best news came the next morning when Erik's friend called to let us know that they were working on our house!

Christmas and Birthday celebrations!

Merry Christmas to all (just a couple of days late)! We spent this past week in John Day celebrating and relaxing. We had a great time hanging out with family and friends. Here are a few pictures from our week.

We played cards, lots and lots of cards...

We went sledding. We really like sledding! There was tons and tons of snow, 

which made it even more fun. Here I am with our niece, 

Sydney, waiting for Erik to hike back to the top.

We made (and ate) cookies. Well, when I say "we" I mean 

Sydney and Sophie made cookies. Sophie told her mom that she and 

Sydney made the cookies and Erin helped just a little :) 

We celebrated Erik's birthday! Happy Birthday Babe!

We also celebrated Christmas, but no great pictures, just great quality family 

time celebrating the birth of our Lord! We are so very blessed.

I couldn't resist posting this fun icicle picture.

It was great to see you all! Thanks for having fun with us!

School?...That's weird.

All signs point to me having to work tomorrow. Strange. I haven't worked all week due to "Arctic Blast 2008," but it looks like school is back in session tomorrow. There's always time for cancellations in the morning! I guess one day on-two weeks off isn't too bad of a schedule.

Us Elfed

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

So, for those of you who don't live in or around Portland, we get kinda crazy about snow here. Any mention of it and people hunker down, collect massive amounts of food from the store, and prepare to be snowed in for weeks on end (despite the fact we've never been snowed in more than a day or maybe two during my lifetime :). My favorite is the news stations and what clever title they have created for the latest weather adventure. This weekends was entitled "Arctic Blast 2008." Really, that sounds like we're at the North Pole or something! 

Anyway, we did end up getting a couple of inches (definitely a blast :) so of course Erik and I had to go enjoy it! Makes for such a fun morning!

Junie B wondering what the white stuff falling from the sky is. 

It was so fun waking up to snow!

Meet snow Erik and Erin!

Aren't we cute friends?!

And now, time for some hot chocolate!