Ainsley's fantastic finish. . .ta da!

Here is Ainsley finishing off her gymnastics routine in her year end performance. She loved her pretty pink and purple velvet outfit so much she wore it around the house for weeks. She would ensconce herself in velvet if it were socially acceptable.

Easter Egg Smash Off

Each year at Easter we have a smash off. When you take two hard boiled eggs and smash them end on end, one or the other will break. We create a bracket, the trash talking kicks in, and we start smashing until only one egg (or one end of one egg) is left standing. This year Grandpa's John Deere green/yellow egg was the grand champion.

Here is the hole with the coils inside. Pretty cool technology if you're smart enough to understand it (I am not). For Christmas I gave Jill a series of certificates related to the house (one half hour of discussing flooring without rolling my eyes, etc.). One of the certificates was for one free environmentally-friendly upgrade without me even asking the cost. I never imagined she would choose something as big (and OUCH expensive) as this!

This is the hole they dug in our backyard to put in the geothermal heating/cooling. It was roughly 9 feet deep, 30 feet wide and 100 feet long.

timbers over the front door

Master bedroom to be

This is the master bed and master bath. Over on the left is the cutout for the two-way fireplace.

concrete for the patio

Here they are pouring the concrete for the patio and the footings for the posts for the deck in back.