landscaping

The "Redwood Forest"

He is so happy when he is on a tractor!

The missionaries live in our apartment now, so Daniel got their help to plant the trees. Elder Westergaard did landscaping before his mission so he was a lot of help. Elder Gilbert learned fast!

Well, in true Daniel fashion...... he and the Elders planted 42 trees in one day! Eighteen redwoods and the rest fruit trees.

more catching up

Heather and I wired and hung the ceiling fans in the new house. It took us
2 hours to do the first one, but we got pretty good at it and the 5th one only took 20 minutes!

Happy B-day Kristy, we love you.

This is the last of the 11 puppies to be sold. I miss them, they were so cute!

I took this of Heather the first day of Seminary this year. She looks pretty
awake for 6:00 am!

catching up.....

The wood floor is pecan, our floor guy did an awsome job putting it in. The first thing children (of all ages) discover is how much fun it is to slide down the hall in their stocking feet!

Kitchen, duh

Random stuff

We have to give him a 5 minute break every 24 hours. It is the law.

He was so tired, he actually said that the cardboard was pretty comfortable. That is just pathetic.

I bet you are wondering what this is about! Ha Ha. Kristy's Golden Retriever had 11 more puppies and this is Father Mel, and Father Sasha from the local monastery. They fell in love with all the puppies, but finally chose this little girl. They said the 200 residents of the monastery were all so excited to get a puppy. He wanted me to take his picture and e-mail it to him so he could show it to the others, and so he could send it to his sister in Scotland. They were really nice guys.

Cabinets

I went to the shop where our cabinets are being made, they let me "inspect" their work and take a few pictures for the blog. It was pretty exciting to see them all there piled up almost finished.

Well, he was working hard on the cabinets until I pulled out my camera, then he stopped to strike a pose!

Ha Ha, no mistaking this one, it is the linen closet that goes in the hallway.

These are the cabinet doors, they had to be ordered and had just been delivered. Yipee.....

Bathroom tile

Our tile guy, Eric finished lining the shower with the moisture barrier and now he can get started putting the tile around the tub area. I am sooo excited, I just love the tile we chose for the master bath.

This is pretty good for a day's work. The face of the tub will have bead board made from PVC around it.

Eric cut the rounded pieces freehand on his tile saw, very impressive!

painting the interior trim

Daniels Dad, Stan again showed up to help us out. He is filling and sanding about a billion nail holes in the trim before it can be painted.

After spending a day filling and sanding the trim, another day covering the painted walls with paper and plastic Daniel started painting the trim. He started at 9:14 p.m. and finished this last doorway into the dining room at about 4:30 a.m. Then he had to lay out all of the base trim in the garage and paint it. After he finished that he showered, packed his bags and we put him on the plane for Alaska where he will be working for the next few months. I can't believe he worked for more than 24 hours straight to get that finished before he had to leave, but he did it! What an awesome guy!

It turned out beautiful! Thanks Dear.