Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Basement is finally DONE!
This is a small town story for everyone. The basement floor was poured in two days. The first half was on Saturday, the second half on Sunday (Father's Day). Can you believe they delivered cement and we had enough help on Father's Day? It had to be done because the house will arrive on Thursday and we're starting construction on Sunday the 28th. The first day it rained on and off all day so that was pretty stressful, but the cement set up fine and everything looks great.
We had a big Father's Day Picnic at the North Park so the boys came in for a feast and had a great time with all of the family.
Starting Saturday we rented out the first floor of the bed & breakfast in town and the building crew will arive. Stuart's Dad and brother are coming, one of his friends from Hiawatha, Stuart, Doug, and I will be the main "barn raisers" but I'm sure my Dad, Jeff, Jerry, Dewey, and Kriss will be stopping by frequently. Oh, I can't forget the supervisor, Grandpa Von. More to come next week!
Tanna
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Airforce Boys Rock!
Great Western Kansas sky!
Monday, June 1, 2009
And for some crazy reason Andrew ended up with the hose, so he had a blast spraying the boys. I don't think they thought it was near as funny as he did.
Our next stop was Abilene TX to see the Gardner's. My cousin Aften is married to an Airforce Firefighter and they have a little girl Zoey, she's the baby of all of the Western Kansas cousins. Stuart and I laughed at her the whole time we were there, she has the BIGGEST personality. I especially like her walk with her hands held out and the high heels on, sorry Aften you're going to have your hands full. Beau showed us around the fire house on base, of course the boys loved admiring the sparkling fire trucks. Grandma Suzan would have been pround of the cement, I don't know how they got it to shine like that.
Just as we were leaving I got this next pic, it was really neat.
We got home Friday night and Saturday Stuart and I dug a 16" wide, 16" deep trench around the basement foundation for our drain. It was 92 degrees and a lot of fun.....ha, ha.
This week is VBS at our Church. (By the end of the week I will be ready for another vacation) I am teaching the 2, 3, & 4 year olds and there are 22 of them. I do have 3 highschool girls helping me, but it was definately organized chaos. I think all of the kids had a blast today, tomorrow is supposed to be cold and rainy so we will be stuck inside all day, ugghhh.
Well that's all for now. We are working on the radient floor heat and pouring the basement floor this weekend. More photos to come.....