Inside Stuff

We have an exercise room full of cabinets and a garage full of doors :)

New Grandson

Noah Oliver Anderson.

August 27, 2013- born at 7:39 pm. 6 lbs. 11 oz and 20.5 inches.

(Sam says, "Life is Good" :)

Love This Place!

I love the roof, trim, hardy plank, and stucco colors!

(Even though the roof is not quite finished and the quality of my pictures is not very good :)

Swimming Hole

It appears to me that when you have to use a heavy machine to chip out solid rock for a hole for a swimming pool- once you had the hole dug, you could just fill it up with water...right?! Why do we have to pay for steel reinforcement and gunnite, inside a solid rock hole?!

The digging is alot harder than the pool company expected and they are having to haul away, rock by the truck load. Plus the machine doing the digging is like a giant jack hammer and it is VERY NOISY.
After seeing the difficulty of digging this hole and seeing the difficulty of the trenching for the geo thermal system (also in rock)...our builder reassured us that we have "built our house upon a rock"!

Siblings in Berthoud

I should have done this post last week. Ron and I flew to Denver on Friday, August 16. On Saturday morning we went to John and Angela's house. EvaMay had arrived on Wednesday and Mike and Enola had arrived on Thursday. It was a great weekend for Ron and his siblings to spend time together, just sitting around and telling stories about "remember when..." and also getting reacquainted with each other. Since they all live a long distance away from each other, their time together is very sparse, to say the least. Mike and Enola were in Berthoud to attend Enola's 50th high school class reunion. Since I wanted Ron to spend as much time as possible with his siblings, I didn't suggest that we do anything with my family- but we did have dinner on Saturday evening with Doug, Quin, and Braden. (Gary had to work) And I did sneak out for lunch on Monday with Sharon and her daughter, Becca. And no one missed us for 3 hours on Sunday morning while we attended church in Berthoud. They did think we were both very over dressed, as we showed up for lunch :) Our kids would have totally laughed at us on Monday evening. I guess by then everyone was "talked out", hot and tired, and we were sitting in a dark living room- just sitting, kind of napping, not saying much of anything to each other. Finally by about 9 pm we decided to go out and sit on the back porch- which was a couple of degrees cooler than inside the house. There was a beautiful full moon. By 10 pm we were sitting at the picnic table playing pinochle, by porch light and moonlight and it was finally kind of 'cool' outside.

Saturdays

What does Papa do on Saturdays? He went back to work part time on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. I work on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. So how does Ron spend his Saturday time. Every Saturday morning, he goes to play basketball. (Not sure, how he will manage that after we move :) Then on Saturday afternoon, he can do whatever he wants. Things like yard work, car maintenance, genealogy, watch sports on TV, go visit families in our ward, clean out his email box, etc. Here is what he did yesterday afternoon. (Ashley...go get Jaden and Hailey so that they can see "The Fruits, The Vegetables, of their labor". They helped Ron plant beets when they were here.)

Pickled beets.

This was actually "round two"- he did 9 jars yesterday and we already had 11 jars from "round one" of pickled beets. And there is "round three" yet to come.

 

While I had my camera in the kitchen-
GG got a new "square" brownie pan. She tried it out on blueberry muffins, so we have some yummy square muffins. Now we need to figure out how to make them gluten and sugar free!

I have the essence of Mason's sweet personality on my refrig.
The pictures didn't print very well, but you can still get the sense of his happiness!

Use Your Imagination

Our kitchen (down stairs) and our game room (upstairs).

We have sheet rock.