Books

I have forgotten to post about the great books I have read and one that I am reading but can't put down. Between a Rock and a Hard Place is the one I am reading right now. What an interesting book. This kid is a walking miracle. He has some amazing stories that he tells while he is stuck in a do or die situation. Great book!

Crazy story of a little families life and how they deal with their dysfunctional family! Sad but so interesting at the same time Couldn't put it down.

Matt always gets me the new Richard Paul Evans book for Christmas. The last three years he has done this and usually I finish the book before New Years, but this year I read it in two days. Is that bad? No, this book is amazing like usual! All of his books are great reads.

Surviving the Winter

We are surviving the winter, especially since we have a few really fun places to go sledding. Jack and LL waiting for MJ to get off the bus
cute kids

playing in the back yard

snow in the hair:)

I still can't believe that he's 2!

Send me in coach!

wonderful packing paper, entertained them for an hour.

strawberry milk everywhere, we just found some yesterday that we missed on the wall. He thought it was hilarious, I had a different opinion.

MJ thought it was pretty funny to wear Jack's coat

sledding with dad, LL thought it was too scary

yes he did throw it at me

Jack loves to sled too!

MJ's Documentary

Merry Christmas 2010

Jack wasn't to happy about getting up from his nap, so he snuggled LL on the floor for a min.

MJ's big present

Christmas morning

Jack waiting patiently

pet pillows

popcorn shirts from grandma Pam

Happy 2nd Birthday Jack!

Snow is falling!

We got about 1 1/2 feet of snow, maybe more with wind and stuff off the roof, but it was so powdery that the girls were sad they couldn't make a snowman with all the snow we had. So we played and waited.... and waited...
and waited...

and waited...

Jack's new favorite game, he loves to cook with mom.

Jack got himself dressed to play in the snow.

then it started to melt and it was time to make a snowman. But if you know our girls we couldn't make just one. There had to be a boy and girl snow people:)

the girls hair is my old flowers from the garbage. LL laughed at me as I pulled them out.

crazy cute kids

Here are some fun pictures of my cuties!MJ after making bird feeders.

Jacks favorite job, that's the Dustbuster in his hands.

Say cheese, he's taking your picture!

What can I say it's LL.

and typical Jack. Does something naughty when mom leaves the room.

Step 4: Window Well/ more pipe repair

Okay, so we have had a lot happen since my last post. We had a rain storm come through and found out that our black pipe solution was not a solution at all. So we replaced it with this PVC pipe. I hope it works.Here is a look at the almost finished wall from inside the house.

Now a shot of the finished wall from outside the house.

And this is from last week when we had a major rain storm came through. I have to say it has been a pain but we are grateful it is over. Yes that is standing water! I woke up at 5am and thought I need to go check the egress window. I went downstairs only to find that water was trickling through under the window because the window well was filled with water about half way up the window. I ran up and got Matt we preceded to go bucket out the water for the next 2 hours. Our insurance adjuster advised that we buy a submersible sump pump. We ran and bought one right away. It saved us, until it burnt up. We were told it would shut off when the water got low, it never shut off. So at 11pm the next night Matt checked it before going to bed and found that it wasn't working and the water was starting to fill up again. So that night was the worst. We set an alarm every hour. We would get up and empty the water then sleep one hour until about 6:30am when it finally stopped coming in so fast. Then at 7am Matt went and got another submersible sump pump. By then the water had stopped so we haven't even taken it out of the box. I am sure we are not taking that back to the store. I don't want that to happen again. BLAA!

Step 3: Window install

Here is what we started with.
after cutting the drywall away

Matt starts the cutting

and after I use a drill to put holes on the inside to help break through

after one little hole we didn't think it was going to work

then I went outside to get the saw, and noticed that it was all cracked on the outside

after 40 mins this is what was left

but then the framing didn't go as planned and this was our solution for the night

framed the next morning

and installed, Yeah!

and we didn't fight at all, seemed like a good home project so far. It's not finished but I think the hard part is done.