House Update

In the following pictures you will see that we have reached the final stages. Mark painted our walls, installed the doors and is in the process of installing our ceiling fans. In our bedroom we are going to try something out, which I am excited to see completed. We have drywall on the walls, will be installing pine wood on the angled slope of the ceiling and then we used drywall on the upper level as you see in the picture of our lovely ceiling fan. I LOVE my ceiling fan. I think it is GORgeous. Can't wait to look at it every night.

Don't you think it is pretty too?

Celery colored walls, at least I am painting my bedroom the color of a healthy food, if it is going to be the last color I see before I go to sleep...

And Odin can truthfully brag 'oh ya, well I can walk on our ceiling', at least until it is installed.

In this picture you will see the fantastic Spanish texture style that Mark put in our living and master bedroom. Notice the speaker wire. Ah ya, Mark has us completely wired for EVERYTHING there is out there right now.

Color is called Liberty, kinda like dark periwinkle. A NICE color.

Check out what we found at the Home Depot and Odin is so pleased. He talks about it to everyone. Who wouldn't love a space-themed fan???

And this is what our new couch looks like. We bought it clear back in April and has been in covered storage at the new house since then. Odin wanted to pose his new Transformers toy, to make a Thank You picture for Grandma Diana. So here you go Grandma, Thank You very much. The boys have already designated voices for each character.


Carpet installers come next Tuesday to measure for the next week's delivery! Start packin' sista!

Leah did me a favor. I don't know if she knows that yet.

Cousin Leah got our cousins camp weekend so perfect with her BLOG ENTRY that I am going to just cheat and post a link to her blog for any one who wants to see some awesome good times. We had nearly every Ashby family member here. Those who didn't make it were SORELY missed. next time!!!We got this camp pretty whipped into shape for40 overnight visitors, all with beds, albeit some where bunks and another was a netted tent in the woods. It was the envy of the camp, though, complete with queen bed, rugs, chair, table, lamp and an extension for a noise maker as well- for those Ashby-women types who can't sleep at night without one. I am still making apologies to Mark for the fact that I just simply need one.

walls, walls, walls, swamp cooler!

Mark's Uncles Ray and Russ and my cousin Scott were here for the weekend, look what they did! we have drywall on all our walls and they began taping and nearly finished the boys' bedroom. All after working until 10:30 Friday night installing a swamp cooler in order to be able to work so long and hard on Saturday! I am so grateful and impressed by their help. And grateful indeed for Mark, who informed me, that he is building ME a house because if it were just him, he would be perfectly fine living in cabins. With a smile on his face of course, because he knows that if MY life is easier, it comes back around. If momma is happy, everybody is happy.

Odin is a natural conversationalist. Very intelligent conversation and genuinely interesting, downright fun, even. We love this growing up boy!

Ronan is still an entertainer. 'You laughin' at me? Good.' His conversation is growing more every day. That kid can share a story! "Ya!"

Louisiana revisited

this section of pictures has ended up being rather long. but then so was the trip. a little apropos.

Thank you for our house which will be done in a few weeks...

Well, maybe not a few WEEKS, but sooner than later. This was one of about five ways that Odin expressed his gratitude for our house in this evening's prayer and his words certainly reflect the feelings of our family. Mark finished the roof this weekend and the siding is all nailed off. SwEeT!

A very wonderful person, named Lance, and his dog, Diva, have been here this weekend. This is one of three piles of trees and brushes that have been cleared for fire protection. We have a huge fire clearance now which I am thrilled about. After Mark stopped a wildfire from spreading up the hill from our lower neighbor's house I have not stopped feeling that we really needed to take care of this SOON.
It will also be a way of beautifying our home, I can't wait to spread seeds out there for next year's spring. We saved the big rocks to use in our backyard for the boys to climb around.

Odin, this picture is awesome! I am setting up a photobucket album for all of his pictures.

The Big Four and other news

We started off Odin's birthday with frosted muffins. Oh Yeah. We didn't wear Superman to church, though. Much as he wanted to.

He did get to cut his own piece out-he finally finished it three days later. That piece was ginormous!

Happy birthday weekend, we wrapped the house, put in windows, a slider door, and started on the siding! Hooray! Cousin Scott is here for a few weeks helping work around the camp and we are so grateful.

You can't really see it here, but Ronan has the silliest face on. He is prone to silly faces when a camera shows up. Funny kids. We love our boys!

This is the back of the house putting up 'pretty board' as it is called, we are going to paint it but that is all. no one will ever really see it.

This stuff is going to be covered in shingles like the rest of the original cabin. We also have tin to replace the front section of the original roof. Good. That stuff looks really bad.

Our status: pretty excited.

That is our metal roof. All done on the new section. We are going to replace the front of the old section as it is pretty chewed from the years. We have all our electrical, speaker, LAN, satellite, and internet cables run. Yah. We are all tech'ed out. Next is siding, insulation, then drywall. Hmm, sounding pretty good indeed.