House Update #16

   With all the bad weather last week, naturally we are now at least a  week behind.  The largest blow was that our flooring woes continued since the wood was supposed to be delivered last week, and it wasn't.  The wood floor finally made it to our house on Tuesday, and only needs to acclimate for three days.
   We really are winding down.  The carpet for the basement is ordered, and should be getting to the house sometime next week.  Other than that we are just waiting for a few light fixtures and all the hardware (handles, pulls, etc.) to come in.  Let me just say that we are really excited about our master closet.  We're not sure we have enough clothes for it, which really is just fine.  It would just be my dream come true to have plenty of storage in my closet.
   Hopefully soon we will have a concrete date for when the house will be done, but  unless we have more crazy weather we should be in next month.

Our hood vent.

The railing on the deck is now complete with the glass inserts, so now we won't lose children through them.

They have put the tile up on our master bedroom's fireplace.

Our master closet is beginning to take shape.

Shower doors!

This is the tub.

Here's our vanity, and off to the right is a towel warmer.

The media room is coming right along.  You can see they have the back riser complete.

The shower  doors area also in, in the downstairs bathroom.

Our exterior lighting is going up.

A Year of Harper

  It's already been a year with Harper.  We can hardly believe it.  Her birthday was actually on Tuesday, and we saw the doctor yesterday.  We are saving a more formal celebration of her birth until we move though, so we were very low key for her birthday.  My Dad couldn't resist buying her an ice cream cake, so we had that for Harper over at their house in the afternoon, and then later at our home we gave Harper a slice of the excellent carrot cake that Aimee made.  She was actually very dainty with it for a long while.  Maybe she wasn't very hungry.

  The doctor confirmed that Harper is an awesome baby, but we really need to stuff her full of fatty foods since she isn't even eighteen pounds yet and only in between the fifth and tenth percentile for weight.  She is 29 inches tall though, which puts her smack dab in the middle for height percentile.  Her head though is a little big.  She has three teeth in, but two other teeth are making their way out on the top. Harper is almost walking. She isn't quite confident enough to  let go of our fingers yet.  Harper loves to talk. She babbles on and on, and can get quite animated with much gesticulating.  Avery and Harper are mostly the best of friends.  One of their favorite things to do together is take baths, and Avery finds it hilarious when Harper pulls on her hair. 

She got into the chair all by herself.

Avery is helping Harper open her birthday present from Alex and Addison.

Avery threw Harper's birthday present of clothes on top of her.

I couldn't get Harper to stop playing with the monkey, so this what you get.

Eating Aunt Aimee's carrot cake.

It took her a long time to pick it up.

I'm done!

Bye Erik

   This Sunday was Daryl's cousin Erik's missionary farewell. He'll be leaving on February first to go to the MTC in Provo before heading out for his mission in Sacramento.  We were able to hear his talk in church, which was great by the way, and then go to his open house that night.  I took pictures of all the guy cousins that were there, and then forgot my camera at Debbie's.  In case you were wondering why it took me a little longer to get posts up, that's why.  At any rate, have a great mission Erik and see you in two years!

Erik of course.

The guy cousin's Karl, Erik, Kyle, Scott, and Daryl of course.

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This is Erik's mission.

Super Fantastic Sleep Over Extravaganza Fun

  So when all that ice from the previous post came, it weighed downed all the trees that were frozen over causing them to fall or break apart.  When they fell over they unfortunately had the tendency to take out  a ton of power lines on their way down.  It also didn't help that we had a wind storm come into town right after that too.  As a result a lot of people were without power, including my brother and sister-in-law Karl and Aimee.  

   Not wanting to freeze to death in their home and take ridiculously could showers, they came over to our house and stayed.  Their power turned off on Thursday and didn't come back on until late Sunday evening. Outside their apartment complex an entire power line pole had fallen down.  While they were at our house we baked a lot.  Except when I say we I really mean Aimee of course.  Aimee made us banana bread, cinnamon rolls, and carrot cake.  All of which were excellent.  The pictures from down below our Tyler and Avery helping make the carrot cake if I am not mistaken. 

Harper was dying to be a part of the fun.

Lots of Ice

   I haven't seen ice like this since our ice storm back in 2006 when Daryl and I were dating.  We actually have icicles which we never really get here.  There was no new snow, but everything froze over.  When we got up this morning and looked out our window we could easily tell that parts of Algona Pacific were without power since all the houses were dark and the stoplight wasn't working. Fortunately we have power.

Fun in the Snow

  Today was pretty much the first time ever that Avery has played in the snow.  Daryl got elected to go take her out while I stayed in with Harper since she has a little baby cold.  We bundled Avery up in two shirts and two pants, stuck her in rain boots, gloves, hat, and my scarf on her and called it good.  She appeared to really like the snow. 

Avery really liked putting snowballs into our recycle container that we  forgot to bring in last night.

Daryl and Avery made a little snowman.

You can get a good idea about how much snow we got by looking at the electrical boxes behind the snowman.

This is not Normal

  Let's get this straight.  I hate snow.  That's one reason I love living here.  Our distinct lack of snow, but if I really miss it, it's up in the mountains where it belongs.  When the snow decides to come down to us that doesn't make Daryl or me happy.  It's supposed to keep snowing all day.  Lucky us.