WORLD CUP!!

Well, our family has really been into the World Cup this year! We've all filled out our brakets too...so far I think all of us have got most of it wrong!! Oh well, it is still lots of fun to follow it together! With Hannah and Allee both playing soccer it is so fun to see them get so excited while they are watching the games! They decided to go ALL OUT on Saturday when USA played! GO USA!! Hope you enjoy the picture!

Church Camp

Well, Allee, Annie, and Me survived church camp and had a great time! The girls did great at making new friends too! Here are a few pictures! We only spent 2 nights and 3 days, but I think that was long enough for now! Allee got homesick the 2nd night and I ended up sleeping on the top bunks with her and Annie!

Beams and Post are Set!!

Jesse finished setting the beams and posts in our kitchen last night! They look really cool! Our island will be built around the 3 posts. We are planning on dropping lights down through the beams in the ceiling over the island area. Jesse tells me every night when we get home from the new house "One Day Closer." We are planning on staining the posts and beams this weekend and then Jesse is going to wrap them in heavy plastic to keep them protected during the sheet rocking phase. Byron, our cabinet guy, is coming on Friday to get the exact measurements of the island now that the posts are set in place.

Hope you all are having a great week!

Updates on the House

This has been a long process for Jesse. When we started working toward the dream of our new home Jesse cut down the trees and cleared out the brush where our house would sit. He put a lot of thought into where the best placement on our lot would be for our home and our driveway. He spent countless hours on designing our home on the computer. I would find him at all hours of the night changing something that he didn't think was going to be just right. He researched and figured out a way to pipe the water from the spring that we hit around our house, when they started digging the hole for our basement. I will have to say that I have learned that my husband is pretty handy to have around through this process. I had NO idea that he could do everything that he has been doing on the house. He has set our tub and shower units. He helped the builder set a couple doors and the big windows and then he tackled the rest of the windows and doors by himself. He has moved dirt with the tractor and ran the back hoe. These are just a few of the things that Jes has tackled through the project. I just hope he knows how thankful the girls and I are for him putting in so much time to make the house perfect for us!

Thank you Jesse for all your hard work! We Love You!

Doors and Windows are being finished up. Soffit and Facia are going on and I think the Stucco is going to be started later this week!

Our AWESOME friend Heath is helping us run the electrical wire!

We can't express how grateful we are to him and Lori for giving up their personal family time to help us with our new home! THANKS Heath and Lori!

This picture is an older one but it gives you an idea how far we have come.

The New Addition to Our Family

Well in the pink blanket is our sweet little kitty!

We got the sweet little thing on Saturday. After daddy gave the girls the ok we went and picked her up! They have named her Boo (Like the little girl on Monsters Inc.)

We have been taking her every where with us. We even went to WalMart last night and Hannah put Boo in her purse:) It is AMAZING how the little things in life make the best memories!

Hope all of you are enjoying your day!

SCHOOL IS OUT FOR THE SUMMER!

WOW!! Summer is finally here! My girls are out of school and we don't have any big plans this summer except for working on our house, going to church camp and spending lots of time together! AWESOME!! We were so ready for this school year to come to an end!! I will admit that I am one of those parents that you see crying the first day of school every year! Jesse thinks I should just schedule that day off of work! Sorry, I just can't help it! I love being with my girls! When they are gone I feel like a little piece of me is gone! But, when we all get back together at the end of the day I feel complete again! We now officially have a 7th grader (um did I just say that???), 3rd grader, and a Kindergartener!! Our girls definately made us proud again this year with their school work! Hannah had another great year with straight A's. Allee did amazing and is excited to start getting letter grades and percentages next year! Hannah is a great role model and Allee wants to be like her sister and get good grades! Hannah went on an end of the year Student Council Trip today. The other 6th grade representative didn't show up for the bus. I will confess that I offered to drive to Branson and get her (LOL)! But...Hannah texted me and said that some of the 8th grade girls asked her to be in their group today and she was going to be alright! I've been praying for her all morning! They all seem to be good kids but this is the first time that she has went somewhere like that without me...I always go on their school field trips! I love watching my girls grow but it also breaks my heart! My little caterpillars are turning into such beautiful butterflies!