Saturday, December 11, 2010

Early Thanksgiving at Maggie's

This past November. Builder Mike and I drove to Rapid City to spend an early Thanksgiving with Maggie and Heath. We had a rough start, we hit black ice in Provo Canyon. Luckily we were in the big a*s truck! Builder Mike has an F-350 w oversized tires and a lift. Good thing too, we started to slide towards my side into the guard rail taking out a bunch of orange barrells and taking out about 5 wooden posts on the gaurd rail (the Provo River was just on the other side of the gaurd rail, by the way). Then we continued to slide to the other side of the road into the concrete divider, also taking out a few more orange barrells. We finally came to a stop and we both were surprised we were still upright in the truck. Builder Mike got out of the truck to walk around looking for any damage when a highway patrol pulled up beind us. It was still dark and lightly snowing, the HP guy stayed in his car and used his loud speaker to ask "please come to my car" and then he said "are you alright". He never once got out of his patrol car. At this point, Builder Mike didn't see anything (remember it's still dark) and the truck was still driveable. So we continued on our way. As it turns out, the truck is still in the shop with > $4000.00 worth of damage, Builder Mike went to an orthopedist for his back and I got an rx from the guys at work for a muscle relaxer. At least we didn't go over the rail and the truck didn't flip!

This first picture is looking out standing on the front porch. They live in the Black Hills of SD, only about 15 minutes from Mt. Rushmore.


Standing in the kitchen and dining looking towards the front room, a sliding glass door to a wrap around porch.
Master bedroom
Guest room
Front room, Maggie and Heath painted the walls green, looks great!
Standing in front room looking into kitchen
Front room, great fireplace
Front of the house
Front side
Side porch
Front Porch
Back yard

Back yard where Heath has set up their archery targets
More back yard

Standing in the backyard looking out over their neighbohood

Friday, October 29, 2010

Rebecca & Jason's new home

Or should I say cabin...nestled next to Wolf Mountain Ski Resort in Eden Utah.

















First Snow Storm of the Season...

So much heavy snow on our walnut tree, luckily it was a warm day and
no harm to the tree!

Fall is in the air...

Rebecca and Jason
Garrett
Gracie
Jack
All the kids at Vineyard Pumkinland





Thursday, October 7, 2010

The Potty!!!!


We now have a toilet on the main floor, yippppeee!!! We did get plenty of exercise running either up or down the stairs, but this is sure more convienent!
We are practically done with this project! The cabinet maker is coming over tomorrow to measure (let's hope, sometimes he doesn't show up, we even gave a deposit of half down almost two weeks ago), a little tile work will be left
and then this project will be done.
Hmmmm, what shall we work on next...


Actually, Builder Mike has been busy cleaning out the garage. I started it just over a week ago by taking everything out of the garage, Builder Mike then installed our old kitchen cabinets for storage and a work top/bench. When it is complete and everything is in it's place (is that even possible?), then I'll take some photos to show how organized we are. In the meantime for me, I have slaving away at a research paper-boy do I hate research...