Slowly Moving Along

Framing day 1- Dennis, Darian, Taylor, and Al working on the south wall- they had to recruit extra help to lift it up and they spent a good part of the day on this one.



Framing day 2- The other big wall is done and some of the inside ones-yay!


Okay, so it seems like this building is taking that crew for-ev-er to build. With delays from wind and apparently short work days, it's not near as far as we had expected at this point, but it is coming along. We need a roof and metal on the end of the east side and the north end and our trim and roll-up doors. Dennis decided to go ahead and start framing in our house part since we had a mild weekend (for December, anyway. He had help, of course (thank you all, by the way). Our plumbing fixtures are here now and our appliances are being delivered TOMORROW!! We have plans to store them until we can lock the shop. We had planned on it being ready to at least store those things by now. But, things don't always go as planned, so we're improvising for the moment. We are soooooooooo ready to get moved in!!!

I wear my sunglasses at night......

Okay, so this reminded me of that song from the 80's about wearing sunglasses at night. I don't know why, but it's stuck in my head! Last night, at our weekly Mary Kay meeting, a bunch of us won these cute sunglasses for attending four weeks in a row for a special training series. How cute are we?!?! I love these MK girls!
(Yes, that's me in the back with a sash AND a scarf for recognition for a really good week-yay for me!)

Happy Thanksgiving

We had a pretty laid back Thanksgiving this year. We didn't travel anywhere and it was just me, Dennis, Cooper, Grandma Linda, Grandpa Al, my sister, Sasha, and my niece Chloe. We had dinner here- we cooked our dishes at different times since there's not much room for everyone at once. We have sooooo much to be thankful for, most of all thanks to the Lord for the opportunity to have our family and be together.
We stuffed ourselves and then took a little trip to Bass Pro to see Santa. The kids loved it! Cooper had a suprised look in his, but he didn't get upset, in fact, had they waited about two more seconds to take the picture, he would've been smiling. I can't post it, since my scanner is on the fritz, but it's cute! Here are some pics, we took hanging out on Turkey Day.
Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Okay, so I've decided that when the building is done, I'm going to try to figure out how to do a slide show that goes fast, so it looks really cool, like they do on the Extreme Home Makeover show. Anyway, we have walk-through doors and windows in. It looks like they are starting on the roll up doors, which means the metal will be hung very soon! Yay!

Cooper has discovered this door on the TV cabinet that he tries to get in, unsuccessfully, so he just plays with the DVD cases and puts his cars in there.

Bible Across America

This is the COOLEST thing EVER! These people from Zondervan are traveling all over the country and they were in Tulsa TODAY. I had the opportunity to stop by and HAND WRITE A VERSE of the Bible (2 Samuel 1:13) for an NIV Bible coming that will be available this time next year that is completely handwritten by people all over the USA! My name will even be in the accompanying index with thousands of others who did it, too. What a cool thing to share with family. I know what they're all getting for Christmas next year! Check out the website by clicking on the logo.

Java Anyone?

I had to post this one! I just happened to have my handy dandy camera with me this day. What kind of mom would I be if I didn't take a bazillion pictures of my kid doing everything!?!? This was too cute! A few posts ago, I was telling you how big he is getting and acting. Well, he tries to mimick everything Daddy does, from burping (yes, he makes a noise that is really strange to sound like a burp) to acting like he's drinking coffee from his coffee cup. This is totally empty, of course, but he was playing with it, pretending he was drinking and even replacing his sippy cup in the cup holder. It's so much fun to see him learn, yet a little scary, too!

Building Update

After a little bit of delay due to some adjustments with the metal and some rainy weather, it's still coming along quite nicely. We hope to see some windows go in this week and hanging sheet metal next week.