We have a roof! (sort of :))

Brandon is out "flying" trusses today. Trusses are the structure of the roof and they are usually constructed off-site in a plant, trucked in and set. So here are the pictures off the trusses being set and current progress inside the house.

Trusses going on

This is the wall of future windows in the great room

The trees and balcony in the great room.

Jon setting trusses

sorry

Hey guys, I'm kind of messing with my blog and trying some new things so it might be a little screwy for the next few days! :) Allie

Silly Brandon...

Silly Brandon, tree's belong OUTSIDE of the house!!!! Or not... we are actually putting 2 of these ginormous suckers in the great room! Anyway this is the current progress on the house as well as some other recent pictures.

BOYS!!!

So it's been awhile since we had a toddler. Davin is 5 and a 1/2 years older than Bridger so it's reasonable to believe we might have forgotten about a few phases. And now that we are seeing them again, I'm reminded that they are totally normal but still hilarious all the same. Bridger is ALL BOY! i.e.He didn't have to be taught what noises a car is supposed to make as you're pushing it along the floor, etc.. He also discovered the thing that makes him "all boy", namely his penis. The second his diaper comes off he's looking at it and pulling on it! And so the life long fascination begins. :) He's also discovered his orifices. He's always shoving something in his mouth or ears. Yesterday we were running some errands and I looked in the back seat and discovered he had his finger in his nose! I wouldn't say he was "picking" but apparently it fits nicely. He started laughing uncontrollably. How great would it be to be so easily entertained?! I'm terrified we are getting into the phase when we will have to rush him to the doctor because there's a marble or something shoved in his ear or up his nose. I guess you just have to learn to laugh about it and roll with the punches!

Orlando...

Ok so Brandon and I just got back from a 5/6 day stint in Orlando. (5 days for me, 6 for him) We had to go down to do a trade show there with my family so we decided to go a few days early and see the sights. Brandon had been there when he was really young and I had never been. So we thought it would be a fun new excpierence. We had a GREAT time! However I must say I'm a Disneyland kind of girl rather than Disneyworld. There were a lot of fun things about Disneyworld, but it just wasn't as "magical" as Disneyland is. We spent all day Friday doing the Disneyworld thing. On Saturday, we decided to try an airboat tour in a swamppy area. This was an interesting excpierence. I've never really thought of Florida as "The South" although it is the southern most state in North America. When you think of the South you think, Louisianna, Georgia etc.. However we had a very southern excpierence. It was like a seen out of a movie where "the yanks" came down to the south and were shocked! We ate alligator (which I don't really reccomend) and were attacked by love bugs in swarms. But we had fun anyway. We also drove out to the Gulf Coast on Saturday, and that was my favorite part of the trip. The water was sooo warm and we ended up buying bathing suits to go swimming since we hadn't planned on it and so hadn't brought our own. Anyway I'll add a few pics of our trip later but there aren't very many so....

Our weekend

So our friends Kailee and Tex came over from Seattle this weekend. It's been a long time since they were both able to make it over so we decided we needed to do some fun stuff. For starters as with all Saturdays we had soccer games. I honestly thought we were all going to freeze to death, but at least it wasn't raining. Our boys did GREAT! Chase scored 2 and Davin scored 5 for thier teams and both of them loved every minute of it. We also got to go riding (4 wheelers/dirt bikes) this weekend and it did rain for that. (Of course) Anyway here are some pics of our fun weekend!