House Progress

We are slowly making progress on the house. We FINALLY got to framing last week...hooray!! Now the fun begins...I love watching the house go up!  Here are a few pics from over the last few weeks...

All prepped and ready for the concrete to be poured. View from the back corner of the house where our bedroom will be.

Front right corner of the house where the garage will be.

Pouring the concrete. I got the boys up really early so we could all go watch. They are in love with all forms of transportation so getting to see all of the cement trucks and the pumper truck was heaven for them. We were there for over an hour just watching.

A panorama shot from my phone of the foundation all ready for the framing to begin.

FINALLY!! So exciting! 

The front door is in the middle, the two windows on the left are my closet, the two windows on the right are the dining room, and the smallest window on the right is my laundry room. The garage isn't up yet and it will be on the far right (you can see the doorway that will go into the house from the garage).

Standing in what will be the kitchen looking toward the front of the house. Boys are playing in the dining room.

It's never a trip out to the house without the boys finding some kind of treasure. Pieces of wood, nails (not so awesome), rubber bands, etc...it's a boy's dream! Yesterday we found a bunch of used nail gun strips...so fun!

Many more updates on the way!

Making Cookies

Every so often I get the urge to bake.  It mostly happens during the fall months when the temperatures start to get a tad bit cooler...you know, when it's 95 instead of 100 degrees. My usual go to baking items usually come from the pumpkin family...I LOVE pretty much anything pumpkin.

The boys wanted to help me this week, so instead of doing pumpkin we did iced sugar cookie bars as a treat for them. They had fun helping me measure, pour and stir everything together and LOVED taking turns turning on the mixer. 

Don't let this mad face fool you...he was having fun. Definitely not a cooperative picture taker!

And then came the distraction of playing in the sink...I totally lost them.  Water is SOOO much more fun than helping mama bake!

Eating...we're ALWAYS ready to taste Mama's baking when it involves cookies!

And...here is the only colored picture from this post.  The cookies were really good but in my opinion looked totally disgusting.  I let the boys pick what color to make the icing.  They chose green and no matter how many drops of food coloring I put in they looked this gross pastel color.  Yucky...but the boys still loved them and that's all that matters!  Next on the agenda...definitely back to pumpkin!  Now if only the fall weather would come our way to join my fall baking I would be very happy!