Aaron and Lyndsey

Thursday, July 30, 2009

4 houses down...sort of

Sorry, still no new pictures. My camera ran out of memory and I have to make a CD before I delete any of the pictures. We have started our 4th house, but technically we are still working on the first. Its almost finished. Aaron is just working on putting the windows in and then that house will be ready for stucco and drywall. The second house and Jason's house just got trusses and now we are working on sheathing them. After they are sheathed then we can do the shingles. The 4th house was started, but there is so much work to do with the 2nd and 3rd that we've stopped for a while.

We still haven't started on our house. Sorry. Its probably not very fun to read about other people's houses. We consider them all our homes. After all, we are a team and all the homes are something I build so I am proud of them all. We don't mind much because, well, we can't move in until they are all finished anyway. It will most likely be next though, so keep checking back. I will for sure have pictures of that.

Its been a lot of fun for the most part. Our supervisor is a little cranky, and hasn't trained us very well, but we manage well. Most of the group gets along really well and we are moving pretty fast.

In terms of regular life it has gotten difficult. Aaron is gone most of the time so that leaves me with the kids almost all the time. I miss his helping me with the kids as well as just his company. Yesterday we were both working on the house and it was great! It was like a date because it was the first time we had been just the two of us in a long time. We had so much fun!

I guess that's all for now!

Monday, July 20, 2009

Vaeh turns three!

Since my dad was in town we decided to have Vaeh's party this last Saturday. We started off the day finishing up our crayon cake.(No, I'm not very creative. I got the idea from a friend on facebook.) After we finished our cake we had a ton of leftover frosting of all sorts of colors, and I hate to waste, so we took it outside and finger painted with it. It was lots of fun, and because Vaeh has a passion for eating her art projects, this was perfect. Even I participated! That will be a repeater.

Aaron spent the day working on Jason and Lisa's house with my dad, so it was just us until 4 when they came home. They almost got all the walls done and we should be ready for trusses on both the Wilson house and Jason and Lisa's place by Wednesday, or maybe even Tuesday! That's 3 houses in a month!

Back to the party...
I swear the older my children get the harder parenting gets, but its also a lot more fun! When her cousins got here we opened presents, and that was hilarious. If any of you know my nephew Jordy, you know he LOVES to help. Jordy's definition of helping is a little confused though. He would take her present and unwrap it for her. For the most part, she didn't mind as long as she got the present when it was opened. The presents were a hit! I think her favorites were all the art supplies, especially the play doh from uncle Drew. (FYI she gave Drew a hug for the first time. It was a pretty big deal because she is usually scared of Drew, but she even shared her fruit snacks with him. It was really sweet!)

After the presents we had a water balloon fight. I think this will be a Vaeh birthday tradition. It takes forever to fill them, and they are pretty much gone in about 5 minutes, but all the kids have so much fun with them. The adults love it too! Mom was pegging everybody! Who knew she had it in her?

All in all, it was a really fun day! I love being a mom! I have the greatest kids!