Summer Begins!

It was the last day of school today! I showed up to pick Tyler & Tanner up and they were soaked to the bone. They had a field day today and played with water balloons and did relay races. Tanner said it was the best day of school ever! Of course!

Tanner and Mrs. Stengel
Tyler and Ms. Sweeton
The water fight after school...everyone was still trying to get all the teachers wet!
Sydney laying in the hammock. She's ready for the lazy days of summer!
Tanner was published today too. The Naturalist wrote an article about the 2nd grade bird projects and included a picture of Tanner & his report. Pretty Cool!

Sydney Graduates!

Sydney graduated from Kindergarten yesterday! It was so exciting. I walked into the room and they had a video playing with pictures of all the kids and really cute music and I almost started to cry! What a ninny I am! I remember that happening at the boy's graduation too. I felt like it would just be really cute and fun, and then I cried. What's up with me? These are not sad times! Oh well, here are some pictures...

Singing songs
Getting her "diploma"
Sydney with her teacher & student teacher (Mylee Hylton) & some friends
Syd & McKenna
Syd & her friend Kendra

Buried in work...will post when I can breathe!

Trusses!

The truck heading up our driveway! Exciting (for me)!

Craning some of the trusses up


We now have a bonus room!

It's starting to look like a real house!!

Crazy Events Yesterday

Okay, so yesterday was crazy! I don't have pictures to go with it, but I can tell you all about it.

1. I went to the job site to check out the granite that was being installed and the kids came in too, but then left and went outside to play on the trailor that was holding another slab. Well, that slab somehow got broken on the corner. I really don't think the kids did it, but it didn't look good. Our granite guy fabricates the stone in Washington, so he has to go all the way back unless he can put it back together and have it look good??!!!

2. Nyle witnessed a drunk driver slam into another car and then just get out and start running away through the golf course! Nyle couldn't just drive by, so he jumped out and chased the drunk down and held him until the police came. His adrenaline was still pumping when he got home! The victims in the other car were taken away in an ambulance. I don't know how bad they were hurt.

3. We went to Bend to do a Costco run last night and it had been raining...hard. We don't get a whole lot of rain here, so it was really flooding in some parts. We saw a whole family playing in a puddle the size of a pond and they were drinched and laughing. Under the overpass there was a large lake and a car even stalled out and was being pushed by a truck. It was CRAZY. The kids loved driving through those huge bodies of water!

Anyway, not much going on here. The trusses are coming up the driveway now so I better go get some pictures!

Awkward Moment

So, today we took a tour of our hardwood guy's house. It was beautiful! It was a true craftsman with lots of neat details! They made their own leaded glass transoms and furniture. It was too cool. Anyway, they are Jehovah's Witnesses and they have tried to share their religion with us. We totally respect them because they are such great, honest people and they have been really great examples of their faith (great missionaries). So, their daughter walked downstairs and introduced herself and I immediately recognized her. She was the one that had come to my house to share magazines with me 3 times and the fourth time I told her that I totally respected what she did sharing her faith and the story of Jesus Christ, but that I was really happy in my own faith. I told her that she probably shouldn't waste her time on me. So now here I was taking a tour of her house, talking with her parents, and checking out her room. I was a little embarassed, but realized that her parents probably sent her to our house. Oh well. I guess in every missionary endeavor you can't win them all. It was just a little awkward.

More Hotel Pics...

The second story is up! Now we are waiting for trusses and they will be here Monday! Yeehaw!

Looking from the family room into kitchen/dining. There will be a barrel arch right where the ladder is.
Sydney's room...lucky girl!
Tanner's room. When the trusses are in place, there will be a little sloped ceiling in the corner. Tyler's room is the same and they have an opening between the rooms so that they can still see each other from their beds. This is their first time not sharing a room?!! It should be interesting. Tyler wants a car room (he wants to design cars when he grows up) and Tanner wants an airplane room. He wants to be a pilot and a dentist.?