Construction

I've been wanting to post some pictures of the construction on the new house... these are from about a week ago. We're hoping to be in around mid-September... yeah! We had the arborist come in and remove all the overgrown bushes and small trees in the back yard and it looks fabulous now. We are building an area that will be a play area for the kids now and eventually become a hot tub area in the future. I think it's going to be great. I'm really excited about a fenced yard and large, natural area for the kids to play.

It's been a hectic week around here for business, too -- Business is really good but I had to let my assistant go and am trying to handle everything and hire someone new. My mom's coming in, too, and we're taking a little vacation down to the new Great Wolf Lodge which is a giant indoor water park. The kids are going to go nuts! Needless to say, it's a little stressful to plan a vacation (even a short one) with no one managing the business while I'm gone... After that, Matt's parents are coming up and we're taking another short trip to Whidbey Island -- we've never been up there. So it'll be a very busy month...

Kids are great - Daniel is so full of ideas... "Hey mom, I've got an idea... isn't that a great idea?" Kyra is still very, very two -- but she might be growing out of it a little. She has gone on the potty a few times but not often enough to have confidence that I'll be done with diapers anytime in the foreseeable future. Luckily, grandparents are coming so I might at least have fewer diapers in the next few weeks! :)