Gina and Blair came to visit

Gina and Blair came for a visit over this past weekend. Jason was working as he got his first chance to do helicopter patrol (way to go Jas). We sure had a great time showing Blair around mom and dad's and Gina and I got some great time in the sun. Having a young child around really helped me appreciate country living.

I think this photo looks exactly like Jason did in his baby photos.

Blair got to meet the neighbor horses. He didn't quite know what to think of them, but they kept trying to nuzzle his cute legs.

He and Grandpa got a chance to catch up. Blair smiles all the time.

During dinner Grandpa set him up on these pillows and he watched a little t.v. (Don't tell dad) while we ate.

He started eating rice cereal, which he loves and the spoon is not to bad either.

This was just a photo I loved showing his tongue.

Grandma has lots of frogs around her flowers and Grandpa found this one to show him.

Short update

We added a couple finishing touches to the water feature. I love the planting part of projects and I now think we have the water feature complete. I love the pink flowers. Andy and I have enjoyed many breakfasts out on the front steps listening to the water feature.

So you can experience...do you feel relaxed. =)

Friday night Andy and I spent about an hour on the swing with our feather blanket. This turned out to be such a relaxing place. The first photo is with the flash so you can see what it looks like; the second shows how dark it was and how nice the candles and lights were. We are ready for company.


Our other big news is that Andy has a new job at the foundry where he is managing a group of about 30 guys. This is a job that he was requested for as it is challenging. He is doing a great job so far and has made some wonderful changes already. He is able to keep the same hours (most of the time). My job is still going very well. We have been very lucky that the challenging economy has not affected us very much. We hope you all are doing well and that you are having a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend.

A VISITOR

This is an email I got today from Andy at work.

Great Horned Owl. They’ll Get up to two feet tall and have a wingspan of five feet. Our visitor was only about a foot tall. Two weeks ago we had his brother in the foundry. Today this guy kept the maintenance workers from getting to their coveralls.

Yes, they were really in the foundry. The first one was captured and taken to one of the vets in town. The second was able to get out on its own. What an exciting day.

The 3rd is done (almost)

In December a water feature place here in town had all of their fountains on a great sale so we bought one to put in this Summer in the front of our house. We have always wanted one and decided the front would be the best place for it as we were sure Brinkley would think this was her new bath and water fountain had we put it in back. Here is what the front used to look like.

Here is the beginning. I am so glad to have those green bushes gone. We added the bricks and started digging.

The pillars were unbelievably heavy, but the guys got them in and set.

The beginning of the end.

Completed project...almost. I still have to add in the plants and will post another photo when that is all done. We are very happy with it and enjoying the sound of the water.

So there they are, the three planned Summer projects complete.

Finished Covered Deck

Andy finished the covered area on Saturday. I am so excited about this newly finished project as it was the one I most wanted. We have been spending as much time as we can out there already. We will get a ton of use out of this area this Summer. We do still have a few pieces of trim to finish it all out, but overall this project is done.

I snuck this photo...this is completion day.

More snow

On Tuesday (4-14-09) we again woke up to snow. This was not predicted and what was the funniest thing is that if you went about 10 blocks South of here there was no snow. We ended up with about 3 inches.

The Second Project

Our next project is covering the deck. Our little covering worked okay last year, but after all the snow...well you can see the left overs on the ground...lets just say it did not fair to well. I am so excited for this covering as I love to swing and simply be out on the deck and this will be so much better. Thank you Andy. I also know Brinkley will love to have a little more cover. This will be prefect for BBQing.