These are our beautiful wood floors! They look so wonderful! They are really dirty in these photos, but they look much better when they aren't dusty. Stuart had a great idea to put the border pieces in, and it gives it a very finished look.

We are very happy with them!

This is our Master Bathroom. We found this tile at Home Depot for only 69 cents a square foot! We were originally going to put in tile that was over $1.50/square foot.

This was such a great deal, we decided to put it in both bathrooms on the floor and our laundry room. The hot pink area is going to be our shower... that's just the primer.

Here are the photos of our hall bathroom. This was more of that great 69 cent tile!

Siding!

They started siding our house this week... the back

is 1/2 way done, and the one side is complete! In the front, there will be brick up to the bright orange lines. Our shingles also got delivered... now if they would only put them on the house!

Drywall!

Yes, what you're seeing is correct... it's DRYWALL!!! We have rooms with walls and everything! We are very excited! They did all of the drywalling in less than a week! We should be painting the first weekend in March. Then we'll be in in no time! (cross your fingers)

Here is what our house looks like from the outside now. Not much different, but this week they should

be putting on the brick and siding.

Insulation!

Here it is... our insulation! We decided to go with the blown in, and we are surprised at how well they pack that stuff in! Then on the basement they blew the insulation onto the cement. We're not sure how to drywall over it, but it sure looks nice!

(First two photos are of upstairs, bottom two of downstairs.)

Tubes for Bear Lake!

Here are the tubes we found for Bear Lake. Look at Stuart go! You had better all start practicing too!

A HOUSE?!?!

What's this? Our house actually looks like a house - not just a hole in the ground!!!! They framed our house completely in 3 days. Now they will start work on roofing and putting in our windows and doors! Then electrical and plumbing... before we know it we'll be tiling! Needless to say we are very excited!!

Here is Stuart enjoying his 3-car garage, and our family/dining/kitchen area. We love how our builder moved our vault into the room so you can see it. We love our house!!!

Walls!

Here is our house! Horray!!! We have some walls! We are so excited!

HALLOWEEN 2006

Here's the family on Halloween... we have Yanni, MElvis, and the HAZMAT crew.

Which one is the real Yanni?

The similarities are stunning!

Who is that? Yanni posing with Yanni?

We had to call in the HAZMAT Crew to dispose of some unmentionables...

It's a famous MElvis sighting!!!

CITY OF ROCKS!

Here we are at the City of Rocks in Idaho. It was awesome! These rocks were around 200 feet high and the view from the top was amazing! The first photo here is of Stuart ... if you look closely you can see some people (by his right hand) and how far away they are. Then Celeste and Stuart showing off the view, then Helen just looking cute with the landscape in the background.

That is Celeste, Stuart and Ryan on top of the huge boulder we climbed up...and the view from the top... and Morty trying to climb up with us.

Here is Stuart climbing... he's hard to see, but he is the little white speck on the rock.

Here is Helen climbing, Helen taking a nap on a rock (she's kinda hard to see) and Celeste climbing!

Stuart getting ready for a climb!

Here is Stuart climbing 'scream cheese'. He's kinda hard to see, because the rock is so big!!!