the kids relaxing south-of-france-like on sunday

the door is here!

Mark had this door custom made to fit the little space where a window had been. That way we got to keep the decorative woodwork outside the house.

on the deck.....

the deck!the deck! we love mark!

amelia has a new lunchbox

Amelia has her first day of school on wednesday so we got her a lunchbox. chanda showed these to me from this awesome website amelia loves loves loves her lunchbox and we use it at home too.

a little better picture of the bear girls

the bear girls

i need to retake this picture... it is almost an ok picture. you can still tell what they look like though. i worked so hard on these two, they are cast resin.

mark makes a door and starts the railing

with tyvec and with some siding

i am getting compulsive about documenting and posting about the house. i know.
interesting fact: james is on a ladder evicting the birds from their nest in trim outside the window of our bedroom.

james says the pictures i take of him make him look like a gump

amelia is ready to jam on her electric drum

we cut down the spruce

You can see that the vinyl siding is off, and the old wooden siding is off and the workers are getting ready to put up TYVEC and new siding.