Time for a little play

Even with all of the work going on with the house, we still found a weekend to play around a bit. We went to Mason Lake near Shelton with our friends Clayton and Tiffany for a day of playing around on the boat. A guy who was on the camping trip had an awesome camera and came along while Jacob, Clayton and Tiffany went wakeboarding. He took many, many pictures, but I've chosen a few of my favorites to post.

Jacob was practicing his jumps...for some reason he likes to hold on with just one hand.

Catching some air

Uh oh...He's going over!

Ouch, that's going to hurt (I'm sure Jacob will be very happy to see I've posted pictures of him falling:)

Clayton was rockin the jumps

The lake was a bit too wavy for Tiffany's taste, but she gave it a shot anyway.

Mobile Home Demo

Larry used his excavator to demolish the mobile home.

Going...

Going...

Going...

Gone!

Jacob cut up the base of the mobile so that it is in pieces small enough to take to the recycling place.

We're Building Our Dream House

July 5, 2008

The time has finally come to begin the process of building our new house. The house has been over a year in the planning process so far, from picking the perfect plans (then changing our mind) then picking the real perfect plans, to working with the city through a short plat process (breaking our property up into smaller pieces due to density requirements) and then finding out that it wasn't necessary, and finally submitting our plans for approval. The actual physical work began today with moving Diane ("Gram"), Jacob's grandma, out of her mobile, since we will be building the new house in this location. On the main floor of our new house will be an apartment for Gram with a living room with a kitchenette and dining area, and bedroom/bathroom. She has been such a good sport about moving out of her house, but in the end we hope she will love her nice new home even more.

The mobile before

Kameron and Sophie helped Larry with the excavator.

The plants and trees were dug up with the excavator.

Gram's plants found a new home for now.

Gram's home for the next year or so. Gram will be living in the Bustetter's 5th Wheel next to our red house during the building process.

A couple of days later, Jacob just had to try out the excavator. Boy, did he look like a kid in a candy store...he was just so excited and having the best time.

He played around by tearing down the metal shed. It looked like the t-rex from Jurassic Park when he grabbed the roof with the jaws and threw the whole thing down.

The mobile has been stripped of doors, windows, porch and they have begun to take off the metal siding. Larry will demo the whole thing next week.

We will be trying to keep up to date on blogging the process of the house, so come back and check it out again soon!