Sleep like a baby

It is amazing the places I find Jilliann asleep. She sleeps horrible at night unless she is attached to my boob but here she has given in to Mr. Sandman in her swing, her bouncy seat and on the dog's bed he got for Christmas. I am thinking of letting Kodiak in the crib and having her sleep on his bed! Ok...not really but I would love a full night of sleep. I guess when she is 18 I will finally have that!!

Play Room

This is my ode to Alaska. I wallpapered with "log cabin" looking wall paper and painted a few walls. I also created these cubes of organization that are supposed to help with cleaning up but I have yet to see the kids utilize this. They do enjoy their space upstairs though. It is a great place for them.

From the front door

This is our office space which should be the "formal" dining area but we didnt feel the need for 2 tables. The "formal" living room is in here also though really in our house there is no such thing as formal. It is a nice sitting area though when the kids are loud and I want a little peace and quiet. There is no TV in there so it holds little interest for them.

Family Living

Our Family room is big so the boys have lots of space to wrestle and create all kinds of chaos. They are good at that. I painted the walls a medium camel color though they look yellow in the pictures they arent. I also painted the archway burgundy to add some extra color in there.

Colorful Potty

I painted to boys bathroom upstairs red with sponge painting (John hates it!) and I wallpapered a few walls with blue star wallpaper. It is my red, white and blue bathroom.

The guest bathroom downstairs is done in a Hawaiian theme. I painted it bright orange. It is pretty funky but hey, all you do in there is poop!

Master

We havent painted the master bedroom or bathroom yet but I finally know what I am going to do. I think I will work on it next month though. I am burned out after doing everything else.

We have walls!

Yeah...we have walls. They came today and shot all the concrete in to form the steps and walls and floor of the pool. It is coming along and is starting to look like it will be something. It didnt take them long to shoot all this stuff in and form everything. Pretty amazing. Next is the rocks for the waterfall then the decking.

Rebar and Electric

The rebar is in and the electric is done. Yeah. Today is the city insepction and with approval we will get the shotcrete on Friday. Supposedly that is the half way mark. The kids are excited and keep asking when we will be able to swim. Hopefully by summer!

Plumbing and Soil

We had 5 tons of top soil delivered to the house for the area we are going to sod. Now, the houses here are not far enough apart for a truck to get in the backyard so the soil was dumped in our front street and we had to haul it in wheelbarrels to the back. That was fun!! John and I were joined by a sweet neighbor who helped out. It was a lot of work. Johnny and John spent the next day spreading it out to get it ready. Saturday we are laying the sod. Oh joy!!





1/31...The plumbing is in!! It took 2 days because it actually rained here so everything stops. God forbid they get wet building a pool. But, it went smoothly and didnt cost us any extra money. Next is the rebar on Monday (2/5).