3 Years Old

So, today is Nate's 3rd birthday, But as things go, I was gone to Young Women's with Amy and Rob at Young Men's. It's 10 p.m. now and I finally sent him to bed without opening Presents cause dad's not home. We'll have to catch it in the morning.

Nate is the cutest kid. We have so much fun. Who knew, three years ago, how much the hearts of all of us would be walking around asking for blue t-rexes for his birthday. LOVE YOU NATE!!!!!!

WATER DAY!!!!!!

It's St. George, ya know! and summer revolves around water. We decided to check out the new park in town (along with everybody and their dog) that has little rivers and water falls and a huge splash pad. It was so much fun and so easy. YEA!!!!!!! No deep water to play on mom's irrational and intense fears and tons of chairs to sit on (the parks department finally got smart and added shade for mommies. We had a great time.

Mi Casa

So, after 3 years of wishing, dreaming, praying, playing, etc., the outside of our house is Newly stuccoed, roofed and decked. The inside, of course, is another story, but for now we are reveling in the exterior victory. We've taken some time off because after 6 heavy duty months of working every Saturday and screaming at the kids to work harder and dreading the weekend, I told Robert that as soon as the construction was finished on March 15th, he had to take at least two months off. It's now been almost two months since our personal hard-core portion was finished. And we're starting to feel the bug again to get certain jobs finished. Also, too, having this monumental project (exterior, including massive engineering and framing) finished, has given us a desire to JUST GET IT DONE!!!! if you know what I mean.

Just a note: You'll note, I'm sure that the existing brick does not really look so hot with the color we picked. Clashes, you might even say. Please know that we get this. We knew it wouldn't look nice, but didn't want to match the brick we're not terribly fond of. The plan was to put cultured stone over the brick. We got a bid the other day, however, that was twice the cost of our stucco. NEedless to say, we are currently researching paints and stains that will complement our new stucco. At least for a little while.