The interior as of 2.22.09.

Here is what our house looks like from the back as of 2.22.09. There will be a deck that the door in our bedroom and the door in the kitchen walk out on to.

Here is the garage with the bonus room over top. The girls are going to sleep in the bonus room when we first move in, with each of their beds in a dormer. Mia has ambitious plans for this room (which fluctuate from day-to-day, but at times include a catwalk from the closet to a stage, movie star vanities, different tv/video game arrangements, etc.).

One week later, the trusses did become a roof! Its amazing how fast this part seems to be going, although plenty of people have warned us that the first part will seem so fast and then the rest will seem to crawl. . .

So here is what our house looks like as of Valentine's Day 2009. Master bedroom on the right, garage on the left. Dumb home teacher room in the middle (off to the left of the front door). A bunch of trusses on the ground that will soon become our roof. . .

Last week we got some stairs going up and the beginnings of some upstairs rooms. We still can't decide where to put the study. The study will either be off to your left or right when you come up the stairs. It will be open to below, whereas the other will be a bedroom and will be walled off.

Is it any surprise Bert would be attracted to a scene like this one?

And they took the rocks and started our retaining walls.

Here I am in the kitchen. Behind me will be the deck. If you look hard you can see a couple of Charolais (mixed in with the half dozen Angus) behind me!

They have started the framing of the house. Here is how it looks from the back yard. Jill, Ainsley and Jeffrey are standing in the kitchen (Sonny, I'm in the kitchen!)

There will be a deck that comes out right where they are looking at the main level, over the top of the walk-out basement. The doorway in the back leads to the master bedroom to be.

Mia was the Book Battle champion for all of second grade at Stansbury Park Elementary!